On 1/1/11 12:05 PM, Greg Kennedy wrote: Greetings
> It's one of the Digital Audio dual-533 models, with a 40gb hard drive, > GeForce2 MX, and 640mb RAM. *snip* > * The PC100 128MB RAM stick I put in the spare slot is not recognized. Some > research shows that > certain Power Macs are picky and require PC133 as a minimum. > Is this one of those models? Yes, but not because it's picky really, but the FSB is 133. Find some low density JEDEC compliant memory and it should work. > * The DVD burner drive I installed, an IBM-branded Hitachi HL_DT_ST G10N, is > recognized > only as a CD reader. It won't burn DVDs and blank DVDs are simply > ejected. I don't know anything about locating Mac drivers or if that > is even necessary. I want to burn some DMGs or audio CDs from here. > I've found that Roxio Toast 7 Titanium is supported on 10.3, > can this tool burn DVDs even where OS X can't recognize the drive? I am not sure if toast can burn a disc if the OS doesn't recognize the optical drive as capable, but to fix that, you will want to get and install a copy of patchburn. > * My firmware is outdated (4.1.8f, latest from what I know is 4.2.8) > but now that I have installed OS X I can't use the > firmware updater. Okay, so I can put 9.2.2 back on here, > does Disk Utility support nondestructive repartitioning > so I don't lose my installation? Sadly, no. It's a rather basic partitioner. As far as I know, the easiest way to update the firmware without loosing the current install is to boot to an OS 9 install on another disk (either internal or an external firewire drive) and run it from there. > * This was advertised as a Digital Audio PC... but I can't find an > input port on this machine anywhere for a Line In or a > Microphone?! How am I supposed to connect some audio source > for recording? I have a Sound Blaster Live card in the garage > but, much to my dismay, I see Creative has been unable to > produce OS X drivers for this. The kX project requires > at least 10.4 for their drivers. There's some kind of plug > on the back of this for a special Apple Pro Speakers that doesn't > fit my microphone jacks. I'm thinking I would need to > start looking for a USB solution, but even those > seem to require 10.4 a lot of the time. Yep, you are correct. Appple called it a "Digital Audio" due to the "digital audio sound system with a highly-efficient Tripath "Class T" amplifier" (http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g4/stats/powermac_g4_733.html), to which, the only product that was made that uses this subsystem (that I am aware of) is the Apple Pro Speakers. If you install 10.4 (AKA Tiger), as you seem to have already found out, there are more than a few options available to you. > * Wireless - this has no Airport card in the little Airport card slot. > I have no idea how to go about finding a solution for this and, probably, > won't bother. I would imagine the expense would be pretty > high for a compatible card. Only because of their semi-rarity. :-) The original airport cards, which that DA has a slot for, are essentially an Orinoco silver/gold PCMCIA card with the on-card antenna section removed. If you really want wireless, I'd look for a PCI card that has a broadcom chipset in it. If you can find the correct one, it will show up as an airport extreme card and will work with the native drivers. > That's a lot of issues and I haven't even gotten to installing the > software I want to use. In fact I've been thinking about this > project on a "grander scale" and I am wondering if even my > Step 1 was a bad choice, and I should have gone with either > 9.2 (and really outdated hardware) or 10.4 (though the > system requirements seem steep). > > I would be willing to go 10.4 if I knew that this hardware would > run it faster than 10.3. Otherwise I don't want to bother. > This is one of those "set it up and let it sit" installations, I > want everything perfected the first time so I don't have to get > in and mess around with things later. Well, the system will run OS 9, but you will probably run into even more driver issues using that due to it's age. In your case, I would install 10.4 and bump up the RAM (it can handle a gig and a half with three 512 sticks). -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
