Recently while working on a mac at my current job, The Mac kept became unresponsive and froze on me. After troubleshooting (repairing permissions etc..) i zapped the PRAM and that solved the problem.
PRAM or NVRAM as it is called contains informations about the time, dvd region preferences, which hard drive to start up on among other things.
A great link to this can be found on Apples Website at:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86194
So you want to network and see what on your mac drive if your using your Windows PC?
It’s easy! assuming you are properly connected to your Mac on a wireless or wired connection already:
1) On the Macintosh go to SYSTEM PREFERENCES
2) Click on the Sharing Icon
3) Under the SERVICES tab check windows Sharing (IMPORTANT! On the bottom of the windows you will see this message “Windows users can access your computer at \\192.XXX.XXX.XXX\theusernameyouareusing” once the WINDOWS SHARING is checked.
3a) Next click the FIREWALL tab located next to the SERVICES tab on the MAC and make sure windows sharing is allowed and not blocked. Simply click the allow windows sharing checkbox to allow it.
4) No go to your Windows XP machine
5) Click run and enter \\192.XXX.XX.X\theusernameyouareusing
The Username and password screen will appear and shortly after you should see the contents of your mac drive! If the Usernam and password did not appear..just double check your IP adress and re enter it in the Windows Run window or just follow the steps again!
Recently I was working on a computer that needed Windows 2000 from a Windows XP/Windows 2000 Partition removed. It can be done through the run command window once Xp is started (XP was the O.S to keep) To do this you must alter the Boot.INI file and then delete the Nt Folder on your C: Drive.
A Boot.Ini file is basically a file that tells windows which operating systems to boot when you turn on the machine.
1) Go to run on the start menu in xp
2) Type in sysdm.cpl
3) Click the ADVANCED tab, under STARTUP AND RECOVERY click SETTINGS
4) Under SYSTEM STARTUP click EDIT
5) This will pull up a notepad file with the code below:
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=”Windows XP Professional” /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)/fastdetect
6) Delete the line that says WINNT=”Windows 2000 Professional:
7) the end result should look like this
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=”Windows XP Professional” /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2) /fastdetect
8) save the file close the file.
Next I will explain how to remove the O.S completely.
When working on a Mac and saving a word document the extension .DOCX wil appear which makes the PC unable to read these file as Pc’s like .DOC instead.
When saving the file, choose the pull down menu that says Format: Word 97-2004 (document) .DOC
This will save it as a PC compatible document that your mac can still read also.
Anyone with a Tivo will tell you, once it stops functioning properly, there are several steps of emotional thinking involved: 1)denial 2) sorrow for loss 3) a degree of anger 4)Acceptance. Then comes the troubleshooting.
While most of us, I’m assuming would rather fix the problem (Just unplug the Tivo from the wall, wait ten or 30 seconds and plug it back in) then call tech support, will run into issues including wireless ones. So, here is a list of all the Ports for the Dlink (Tech Support 877 – 45D-LINK ) routers that may need to be opened for TIVO to work. Thanks to the Tivo tech who gave them to me.
All numbers listed are TCP Ports for the exception of ones noted:37,2190,4430,7287,7287,7288,8000,8080 through 8089, UDP 123, UDP 2190
The Situation: Idvd8 was installed on Mac OS 10.4.x. Now when the program runs the startup screen appears but then wont load the program.
The problem is: IDVD 08 doesn’t like the old themes installed in your library, specifically from files named IDVD1,IDVD2 and IDVD4.
To fix this: First, delete the IDVD1,IDVD2 and IDVD4 themes in your system library folder; then delete the application support folder in your user directory.
Here’s How: One way to go to the System library is on the Apple menu by choosing:
Go>Go to Folder> /Library/Application Support/iDVD/Themes
Now lets delete the Installed themes by going to:
Go>Go to Folder> username/library/application support/idvd
Relaunch IDVD08 and it should work!
