At 8:00 AM -0700 10/17/2011, Don Wakefield wrote:
Sorry if this is a repeat message to some of you, but I never saw it
post after I sent it.
me either. sigh.
Leopard on my eMac
processor speed, memory?
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.
Some videos on youtube can be difficult to view, depending on the
codec involved, SD vs HD, etc.
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.
8 Mbps downstream should be fine. What's your supposed cap, down &
up? What's your setup - direct wired to a cable modem? or wired to
a NAT router? or wifi? What speeds do speakeasy's test report?
Show me a traceroute to www.youtube.com.
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.
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
The bootable volume search isn't done yet. When it finishes, the
mouse cursor will turn into an arrow.
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.)
Unplug all external devices, except keyboard and mouse. Then redo.
- Dan.
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