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  • Broken on/off button after spill in unibody MacBook Pro 17 Feb 3 @ 2:23 AM

    Hello, I have a almost brand new MacBook Pro Unibody 3.06Ghz. Someone (of course not me!!) spilled some coffee in the keyboard. Now the on/off button does not work. Now this is a Norwegian keyboard wi...

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  • iMac screen discolored (smudgy) Jan 6 @ 2:22 AM

    Hi, I bought a used 2007 mod. iMac 24" 2.8Ghz. Now I wonder if there is something wrong with the screen. When I start it up I see areas with yellowish discolored areas and I can see icons and some tex...

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  • Fan is on all the time Jan 5 @ 8:15 AM

    Hello, I have read similar threads here but not exactly this one. I had my MacBook Pro 2.4Ghz for motherboard repair. When I got it back the fan is an all the time, even when the MB is cold. I have do...

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  • Will not boot, grey screen Nov 12 2009 @ 3:25 AM

    This is a G5 2.5Ghz Quad. OS X 10.5.6. 8GB RAM. I get the boot sound, then a grey screen. That is all. Then the fans start blowing real loud until I turn it off. This is what I have tried: 1) replace ...

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  • Answer to: Tips for minimizing wear on upper case? Jan 6 @ 2:35 AM

    From what I have seen on friends unibodys this will happen to those models also (because of what Kyle mentions) but not as much as the older alu models. I was sceptical to covers but am very pleased with Invisible Shield on my MacBook Pro 15" unibody. I am a fan of the Invisible Shields (www.zagg.com) and apart from keeping the palmrest clean I found the best part is that it is easier to carry the MacBook, it doesn´t slip out of your hand (all the alu stuff does!) and onto the floor. I never slipped i.ex. my iPhone with the shield on it. I would say this kind of shield is ultimate since it doesn´t add any extra bulk to the size. Only thing I am displeased with is that all Invisible Shields eventually get dirty on the edges and my iPhone looks kinda groce after a year. But peel it off and it looks new. Same with MacBook shield! Invisible Shields are also not easy to apply and fairly expensive. But the day you sell your Mac you will be paid back :-)

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  • Answer to: My mouse pad doesn't work Jan 5 @ 2:55 PM

    Have you checked your battery? I had the same problem with mouse pad not working and an Apple technician took a look at it and it was the battery had swollen up so it had pressure on the top. Apple gave me a new battery and the mouse pad works like a charm.

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  • Answer to: Improving graphics performance? Nov 13 2009 @ 8:43 AM

    Here is a link to the ATI tool. http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/

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  • Answer to: Improving graphics performance? Nov 13 2009 @ 8:41 AM

    First of all your MacBook Pro is probably hot enough as it is?? The only solution I have heard of is that you can overclock the video card in Windoz in BootCamp wth the ATI tool, load it into the video card and when you are back in OS X it will be overclocked. I don`t think you can overclock the CPU on a MacBook Pro because it uses an EFI bios and I have not seen any overclockers software support for that.

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  • Answer to: How do I make my Hard drive bootable? Nov 10 2009 @ 6:07 AM

    Another good article I found on installing on a USB flash drive. Which would be much the same as a Firewire drive. I expect you want a minimal system? http://blog.bradbergeron.com/2006/11/how...-install-and-boot-os-x-on-a-flash-drive/

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  • Answer to: How do I prevent my guitar's input jack from loosening? Nov 10 2009 @ 6:04 AM

    Here is what I did. I took out the jack and stuffed (really hard) steel wool, the stuff you clean pots with, into the screw holes. Then the screws fastened real tight. Much better than glueing which is not very reversible!

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  • Answer to: Battery life less than expected Nov 10 2009 @ 6:01 AM

    Just my advice since I have a 16GB 2nd gen. iPhone. When I upgraded to software v.3 it did not last even a day. I found the clue is to turn off all "push" settings in email. Set everything to "manual" and do it everywhere, also in the submenus. That gave me back my battery life at least.

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  • Answer to: How do I make my Hard drive bootable? Nov 10 2009 @ 5:56 AM

    Now this is important. You don´t write what Mac you want to boot from the drive. I.ex. a PowerPC formatet boot drive will not boot an Intel Mac. So when you format the drive in Disk Utiliy choose "Partition" and how many partitions you want (usually one volume). Then click on "Options" and choose "GUID-partition table" to boot an Intel Mac and "Apple-partition table" to boot a PowerPC Mac. With an Intel Mac you can also boot from external USB (only Firewire on PowerPC). This is handy and I have a USB stick that is loaded with utilities that I have saved a lot of Intel Macs with. Here is a tip on creating a minimal boot disk with your own tools: http://www.techarena.in/guide/9476-create-bootable-mac-os-x-dvd-clone-x3.htm and besides that you could google "create os x boot disk".

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  • Answer to: Defragging Mac OS X hard drive Nov 7 2009 @ 5:21 AM

    The question is, does OS X need a defragmenter. Mac OS9 did. I would say it can help if you have many large files (video etc.) or you are running low on disk space. For a starter Cocktail does a good work at maintenance (http://www.maintain.se/cocktail/index.ph...) although ti does not do defrag. You would need something like iDefrag (http://www.coriolis-systems.com/iDefrag.php). I have tried iDefrag with good experience. But did I notice anything else than prettier defragement graphic bars? Not really, or someone else may have different experience. Take a read here about defragement and OS X: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10328197-263.html

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  • PowerBook 17" says I have no mouse or keyboard! Nov 4 2009 @ 3:39 PM

    Hi,

    I changed the broken LCD of my 1,67Ghz 17" PowerBook. I was assembling the flat ribbon cable from the keyboard through the logic and close to the RAM I was just testing without the battery (charger plugged in). Suddenly there was a small spark and a trail of smoke (!!) coming from the connector where the flat ribbon cable goes in. I can see it has a smal burn mark. Now the PowerBook works fine, boots but complains that it does not have a mouse or keyboard. Is there any way I can repair that connector or do I have to buy a new logic board?

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