Re: My Power mac keeps restarting
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Howdy. I'll add to this. I used to visit a private girls school near Middleburg, Virginia, to deal with several Macs. The human buildings were very old with old electricity and no central A/C. The
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Daniel Settles
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Re: My Power mac keeps restarting
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Here is a personal experience. A law office was having a problem with their Macs shutting off unexpectedly, usually all at the same time. After some sleuthing, I found that the problem was that they
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Randy B. Singer
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Re: My Power mac keeps restarting
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Also, it should have some surge protection, and good ones even condition the power. Randy Singer has written about that many times.
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Brent
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Re: My Power mac keeps restarting
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Oh, I have used MacTracker for 20 years, and I have even donated to him twice.
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Brent
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Re: My Power mac keeps restarting
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Howdy. One should not plug large power-draining equipment like a laser printer into a UPS battery box. A. It's not necessary. One can print when power comes back on. B. The primary purpose of the UPS
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Daniel Settles
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Re: My Power mac keeps restarting
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Barry, I don't mind be corrected, if done with a little courtesy. I did mislabel 10.5 as Lion, and not Leopard. But your reply was not well received. I hate the names Apple uses for the Mac OS. The
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Brent
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Re: My Power mac keeps restarting
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I have a 1? year old small Brother laser all-in-one. Looked up its specs. I cn draw 1000 watts when heating the fuser element. -- Jim Saklad jimdoc@...
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Jim Saklad
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Re: My Power mac keeps restarting
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O.P.¡¯s machine runs El Cap. There was only one Mac Pro in 2008 able to run El Cap: Model Identifier MacPro3,1 Model Number A1186 EMC 2180 -- Jim Saklad jimdoc@...
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Jim Saklad
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Re: My Power mac keeps restarting
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I would feel insecure with a $70 UPS. I guess our posts passed on the internet, because I just posted about laser printers causing surges. The momentary outage is not the problem, it is the surge that
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Brent
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Re: My Power mac keeps restarting
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To add a little to this, printers, particularly laser printers, create a sudden power surge. Try to place them on a different circuit if possible, had if they are in the same room. Or at least not
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Brent
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Re: My Power mac keeps restarting
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Barry Austern
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Re: My Power mac keeps restarting
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10.5 is Leopard. Lion is 10.7. Snow Leopard is in between. I recommend a great program, available in the App Store, called MacTracker, which is a data base of just about everything Apple has built.
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Barry Austern
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Re: My Power mac keeps restarting
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Howdy I'll second Randy's observations. I've dealt with all three conditions at clients. Denver Dan
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Daniel Settles
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Re: Back up of my Mac HD
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Thank You , Paul. I found it when I went into the drive. I also found the old folder from my Mac Pro, which I deleted Jeannie?
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Jeannie Girard
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Re: Cost of move to groups.io?
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DaveC This topic has been hashed over and over for the past couple of weeks. I'm sorry my answer of "No" was so curt. It's been asked and answered a few times. Anyway, if you would like to be a
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Free Apple TV+ Tip
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This is from an Apple support page: I purchased a new Apple device that comes with 1 year free Apple TV+. How do I activate my 1 year Apple TV+ subscription? Starting November 1, you¡¯ll be able to
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Re: Upgrading a 2017 iMac's RAM and storage (was Re: [macsupportcentral] Question for SEE Finance users?)
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Thanks for that. I¡¯ve not had personal problems myself, and I have a variety of bus-powered external drives. Jim Robertson
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Re: My Power mac keeps restarting
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Who's feeling old? ;) Otto [email protected]> wrote:
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Otto Nikolaus
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Re: Cost of move to groups.io?
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The price just changed. Here is their message about it... https://beta.groups.io/g/main/message/22528 Bev
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Bev in TX
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Re: Back up of my Mac HD
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Hi When you look at the backups.backup folder on the Time Machine destination drive, do you see a folder with the name of the current computer (the same name that is in the Shared system preference
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Paul
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