On Oct 17, 2011, at 10:00 AM, Don Wakefield wrote:
I am currently running Leopard on my eMac,
Leopard is about 15-20% slower on PPC Macs than Tiger according to
benchmark tests like xBench or GeekBench (you can check either archive
of test results to see actual numbers).
and I have been told to run hardware checkup from the original
startup disk.
Good idea.
I have been experiencing a variety of nagging irritations with
regard to video playback of Youtube files recently. Thinking it was
Flash, I switched to HTML5 but the recent stuttering still persists.
Cable company claims to be giving me a higher speed than my
Broadband Reports tests show and that may indeed be the problem, but
you can't fight city hall! Their techs say their test is correct, I
am receiving over 8 meg down and since that should be able to take
anything Youtube could send they point the finger at my graphics
card and that is where the hardware test comes in.
Your eMac may be too slow with Leopard, and booting from an external
Firewire HD will be slightly slower than an internal HD, but not a
lot. If you have time, transferring the HD or reverting back to using
the internal HD might help a tiny bit.
When I inserted my original Panther disk, restarted, and depressed
the option key, eventually what looked like a boot loader appeared.
It showed me several locations of bootable files on various drives.
--- I have an old Tiger on the internal 80Gig, the current Leopard
on an external 250Gig firewire, and now Panther and hardware
checkup icons from the cd in my drive bay. They show up in a line on
an otherwise basically grey blank screen.
This is normal behavior.
At this point I can find no way to indicate which of these devices I
wish to select. I have tried the arrow keys, clicking the mouse
which has turned into a clock face rather than the usual arrow,
pushed the tab key, and I have also tried including the option key
and most other keys and nothing seems to allow a selection. The big
indicating arrow under you selection never appears.
Sounds like a bad keyboard perhaps? Another possibility is corrupted
PRAM or NVRAM. Zap the PRAM by holding the Cmd-Opt-P-R keys at startup
for several "chimes" and then you should reset the NVRAM by booting
holding the Cmd-Opt-O-F keys, and then at the Open Firmware prompt,
type:
set-defaults<Return>
reset-all<Return>
where <Return> means hit the Return key. It should respond "ok" to the
1st command, and restart at the 2nd command.
Is the fact that the mouse arrow is a clock face telling me the
system is locked in a loop and not ready to offer me a selection
choice? I have had it grind with the watch for over 10 minutes
without ever returning to the arrow. (I can't believe it should take
that long to settle down.)
Again, reset the NVRAM and see if that helps. If not, try another
keyboard.
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