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Location: NJ | sure dave and tell me how to mount the PCI card in it??????????????? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | It's time to walk upright, dude. |
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| I can't believe I'm agreeing with jeff and dave at the same time.
I'm having to do a reinstall of everything on my daughter's laptop and it's like being back in the 19th century.
Bite the bullet al, then you can forget all this crap. Forever. Step out into the light. |
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Location: NJ | fine tell me how to install a PCI card into the mac and I will go out and buy one NOW |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Al - I have a load of parts, cables and stuff - let me know if you're looking for anything.
MIke
p.s. - that's probably an subliminal way of telling us both to go get macs.
BTW - it's not all roses and sunshine in the MAC camp - my daughter has a macbook and has to bring it to apple to have the battery changed and to replace the cd/dvd drive - things I could have accomplished in no time. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by alpep:
fine tell me how to install a PCI card into the mac and I will go out and buy one NOW What are you plugging-in? |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Um, this article talks about installing PCI cards in a Mac.
http://www.macease.com/pci_cards.html
Don't worry Al, you'll get used to the mighty-mouse, Finder and Safari pretty quickly...
Dave
Al, of course I was just being a smart arse.
You've got money invested in your current hardware and "within reason" you should do what you can to make it work. Once you cross the line, then there's other options. The line exists at a different place for each person and I've already crossed mine. 'nuff said.
I'm no computer jockey, but I think you're trying to install your OS on a new drive and need the ability to install the interface card for your yamaha mixer, right? Do you have other boxes you can try the HD in? Do you have another drive you can wipe and try it? You might want to invest minimal money and have a shop wipe it and load the OS. I bet the problem is simple and obvious, just not obvious to any of us.
Now IF that doesn't work ....
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Al - I've had a couple of problems over the years that we're almost impossible to figure out - both times, it came down to a faulty memory chip. If you have more than one memory stick in there, try them separately to see if that fixes the problem. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Good suggestion. Actually my work PC had problems recently that to my untrained eye were video card related. The IT camel jockeys fixed it by swapping memory. They couldn't explain why.
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Good suggestion. Actually my work PC had problems recently that to my untrained eye were video card related. The IT camel jockeys fixed it by swapping memory. They couldn't explain why.
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I am shocked at how many Mac-homos we have on this site. They crawl out from under their rocks as soon as a PC person says they have a problem.....like Macs are error free....HA!
Be strong Al...we got yer back! |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | heh-heh-heh,
good one, Dave
good one, Dave |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Originally posted by stephent28:
I am shocked at how many Mac-homos we have on this site. They crawl out from under their rocks as soon as a PC person says they have a problem.....like Macs are error free....HA!
Be strong Al...we got yer back! Denial is a river in Africa... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I like how Apple has installed the "Mac insult" alert button in all their browsers so that users are instantly notified whenever someone negatively refers to a Mac......... |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Unfortunately, it goes off constantly 24/7.... |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | quit it, Stephen... the alarm is beginning to pester me... |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | This isn't helping Al at all but ....
I'm convinced that Ovation is the "Mac" of the guitar world. Think about it. It's not overly popular, somewhat quirky in looks compared to the norm, does an outstanding job in most situations but not all, it's owners and fans are rabidly loyal and love to wax glowingly about it on internet forums. Am I wrong ???
Here's an interesting excercise. Take any thread on this forum that goes off on the Mac vs. PC tangent. Every place you see the word "apple" or "mac" replace it with "Ovation". It's actually really funny.
I'm not going to debate Mac v. PC, Ovation v. Martin, Ford v. Chevy, Vaginal vs. Anal, blah blah blah. They're all just different choices and personal preferences (shut up Cliff).
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Location: NJ | ". . Here's an interesting excercise. Take any thread on this forum that goes off on the Mac vs. PC tangent. Every place you see the word "apple" or "mac" replace it with "Ovation". It's actually really funny . ."
Try it in the whole "Bang for the Buck" analogy . . . |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Yeah, maybe applies there too. I don't know. I'm still an extreme Mac newbie, but I do know that in my PC existence the upfront cost of the windoze machine was almost insignificant compared to how much else I would have to invest over it's short lifetime.
Back to Al. He's got a tender stomach already, what the hell can we do to get his computer woes resolved before he doesn something drastic ...
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Vaginal vs. anal? Only you would throw that one in among Ford vs. Chevy. |
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | Buy a new Dell tower for about $350, and forget the issue. It's not like shelling out 3K for a new Mac, and it'll get the job done okay. You could always upgrade a part or two as you have need as well.
I'll cross the Mac bridge some day...when I stop buying guitars. ;) |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Geeeezzzzz, Mac users are a sensitive lot.
Nothing more we can do for Al until he gives us the latest update.
He is probably out making money while the rest of us are spinning our wheels posting on the forum! |
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Location: Tychy, Poland | no offence, but all this PC-bashing...
i wouldn't switch to mac even if i got payed to do it.
i haven't had a dangerous virus on my pc in my life.
on my old PC XP Professional works just fine for over 5 years without reinstallation. i also have FreeBSD installed on my pc's. |
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