<< The only problem I have now is the stock CD Drive isnt recognized by the system. I messed around with it for a day or two, until I installed FWB's CD Rom Tool
Kit, now it works fine. I thought the apple disk utility would handle the CD. I am just dealing with an unsupported drive or did I forget to do something? >> We just dealt with this problem over the past weekend. The stock CD player, it turns out, was not an Apple item but an after-market brand, so Apple's disk utility didn't recognize it. FWB CD Rom Tool Kit did the trick. So it's not you. Our Power Tower Pro 250 has been giving us nothing but problems for three months and has been in the shop more than it's been out. Finally a friend of ours spent the weekend with us and trouble-shot the entire system. Now everything seems to be working fine (keep fingers crossed, it's only been two days!). The problem seems to have been memory. We had 128 megs of RAM, and things were just crashing left and right; we got system bombs and green screens so often we nearly gave in to depression. We have now added another 128 megs and the machine seems much happier. I suspect that the size of the programs we tend to run (Photoshop, Illustrator, QuarkXpress, After Effects, Premier, SoundEdit, as well as Word) was just outstripping the ability of the 128 megs of RAM to handle it. Also AOL seems to have contributed significantly to the problem. Seems like such a simple problem now that it appears to be fixed, but the repair shop couldn't solve it in three tries. It can be very frustrating. As for the quietness of the list, it's only the past few days. It was quite lively before that. However, there are people on this list who are really knowledgeable about hardware systems, and it's a little intimidating for some of us who are, like ourselves, primarily users, only interested in what the machine can help us accomplish, and are not hip to hardware, gadgets, box cracking, constant upgrades and such. Therefore, I think you'll find that people tend to post only when they have a problem because they don't want to look stupid. Thank goodness this little community exists, and that we have some gurus out there who are willing to share their knowledge and answer questions! You are all appreciated. Monica -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
