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Hello there, I hope someone can help with some advice please...
I recently moved from the UK to Italy and brought my Mac G5 Power PC with me. The house I moved into (in Italy), already had fitted UK-style electrical wall sockets because the previous tenant/lanlord is British and decided it was more convenient than changing the plugs on his electrical components. (he didn't own a computer)
The electrical fitting however, like most in this part of Italy, has no earth and is for 220 volts. The technical specifications for my Mac is Output voltage range: 13 to 2 v, and output power range: up to 15 w.
I also have a big old Proview monitor which I purchased at the same time (approx) as my Mac G5 about 4 and 1/2 years ago from PC World.
I have never had any problems wth either piece of hardware ever before but as I am not too hot with electronics, I (stupidly) decided to connect everything up anyway.
Both the mac and the monitor worked fine for the first couple of days and then, suddenly, things started playing up: my system slowed right down ...almost to a standstill. I get the spinning wheel for ages every time I try and do even the simplest task like opening a window - it eventuall opens but takes minutes instead of seconds.
Naturally, I tested a few combinations and noted that the monitor's connection cable sparked a couple of times as well as feeling a small shock from the powr outlet.
All this has led me to disconnect everything completely and seek some serious advice about obtaining some kind of UK/European power convertor or adaptor - all I could find on Apple Store was stuff for Ipod or Iphone though.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Any help regarding this issue would be gratefully accepted as I am having to use a PC laptop running winws at the moment and it is truly awful.
Please, please, please
I recently moved from the UK to Italy and brought my Mac G5 Power PC with me. The house I moved into (in Italy), already had fitted UK-style electrical wall sockets because the previous tenant/lanlord is British and decided it was more convenient than changing the plugs on his electrical components. (he didn't own a computer)
The electrical fitting however, like most in this part of Italy, has no earth and is for 220 volts. The technical specifications for my Mac is Output voltage range: 13 to 2 v, and output power range: up to 15 w.
I also have a big old Proview monitor which I purchased at the same time (approx) as my Mac G5 about 4 and 1/2 years ago from PC World.
I have never had any problems wth either piece of hardware ever before but as I am not too hot with electronics, I (stupidly) decided to connect everything up anyway.
Both the mac and the monitor worked fine for the first couple of days and then, suddenly, things started playing up: my system slowed right down ...almost to a standstill. I get the spinning wheel for ages every time I try and do even the simplest task like opening a window - it eventuall opens but takes minutes instead of seconds.
Naturally, I tested a few combinations and noted that the monitor's connection cable sparked a couple of times as well as feeling a small shock from the powr outlet.
All this has led me to disconnect everything completely and seek some serious advice about obtaining some kind of UK/European power convertor or adaptor - all I could find on Apple Store was stuff for Ipod or Iphone though.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Any help regarding this issue would be gratefully accepted as I am having to use a PC laptop running winws at the moment and it is truly awful.
Please, please, please
