[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > << 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. >
> Monica ********* AOL is a Pain in ------ With all the memory hogging S/W you are using ... I'd bump the Ram up to 512. IT is the cheapest may to increase your box's performance. You have 8 Ram Slots. (To avoid future headaches, Buy all the same brand and speed Ram Dimms) I put 1 Gig RAM in my PTP225 w/G4 daughter card. Some will tell you it won't work ... but mine does. Even with 512, You will immediately notice the speed difference. With all the things you are trying to do with this . I strongly suggest you buy conflict Catcher 8 or 9. The directions are not that hard to follow and you can create sets for various functions. This eliminates the time spent loading unneeded extensions, control panels, etc. plus the possibility of them conflicting. Things not working right? Just click on the CC icon in the menu bar. Robert Baucom (RHB) -- 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
