Thread: Mac Help Please (if Poss)

2 yearsa agoI bought an Ibook G4 off Ebay here in the UK as I wanted to try out Mac , as opposed to PC, on the cheap.

It arrived in the original box and works fine. I am very pleased with it.... until I needed to install a program on it and needed the system password. Ok, I thought and emailed the seller. He, a student, had set me up as the user but could no longer remember the master password...... probably too many psycotrophic drugs and alcohol.
Anyway it wasn't too much of a bother and I relied on the PC.

I recently resurrected the Mac and it seems the date/time settings have all gone to pot and I need to reset them...... and therefor I need the password again.

Does anyone have a cheat/solution to this?

Running OS9 if that helps and very grateful for any help. Beers can be paid in the UK or arranged in BKK (in a certain bar)

Cheers

I'm gonna try too help too but not until the morning. Melvbot is the dude though when it comes to macs. I consider myself pretty good but right now I seem to be the shit on Blackberrys.

Im hardly an expert on OS 9, Ive used it 3 times. I just did what I do when I have a problem, gooooogle it first.

Yep I'm the same, never used os 9 and google sorts out all my shit.

You will need the discs that came with the machine.

thanks all...... I'll have a look in the box that it all came in.... hopefully the disc (s) are there.

I'll update soonest.


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I say, just google the problem and go from there. Recently I installed some fake leopard disks and felt stupid and worried whilst doing it (id backed up my shit before hand) anyway I've had no problems and am enjoying full leopard usage + benefits.

Thanks to all who have replied. Upon looking in the box there is only one CD... marked CD 1 of 2.

Rather than try that and end up with nothing and needing the 2nd disc I will Google it and see.

Should have done that to start I suppose and not wasted your valuable time.

Much appreciated the (very quick) replies though.

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Originally Posted by toslti

Thanks to all who have replied. Upon looking in the box there is only one CD... marked CD 1 of 2.

Rather than try that and end up with nothing and needing the 2nd disc I will Google it and see.

CD 1 is all you need - it lets you boot and access the disk. Just do not run the installer.

You may want to consider an update to OS X at one point, as long as your iBook has enough RAM .