On Feb 6, 2012, at 9:54 AM, Jeff Bequette wrote:
Sorry to hear about the (forced) downgrade, but having the
mentioned underpowered video card in my 1.8 DP, I was curious, when
swapping the video card, did you reset your pram also? (cuda
button) <http://www.macusersguide.com/2009/05/resetting-pram-nvram-
pmu/> Seems like the drivers for it should be standard across
10.4. I run 10.5.8 on my fairly stock machine (4g's Ram, GeForce
FX 5200) and had to reset pram just for the memory upgrades. I
have switched to the Flash cheat for PowerPc (see archieve) but
youtube seems to function fairly well. I have a hanns.g 25 inch
monitor and sometimes it seems a little slow on Civilization, & the
daughters Sims collection definitely ran slow. So much so she
thought they were to fast on her Intel 2.0 macbook. Good luck and
don't give up on that video card.
Ahhh, the video card is the least of my worries.
From following the conversations here I've learned just how much I
failed to do pretty much EVERYTHING when I started trying to
'migrate' the drives and systems from one machine to another.
Ignorance is NOT bliss, but it IS correctable!
Of all the lessons, the most constantly-annoying is how NOT to back
up iTunes.... teh WRONG WAY is by simply copying the music library
as that does NOT contain all of teh spreadsheet/database cross-
referencing information that makes the program professionally useful
to me. Not moving the iTunes associated file tha contains the (to me)
most important reference info... the DATE ADDED... has left me with
several iterations of the complete library on several HD's ALL of
which now assume that all the material was added on the date I
dragged them all back into the program on teh new machine.... not to
mention 3-to-8 copies of each song.. often missing title or artist
info... a problem that requires daily wading through things to find
them and excise them on a sort-by-sort basis.
While this is the most flagrant to me, it is NOT the biggest problem.
THat is the issue of deciding and implementinh what machines will be
the core of teh working sudio for the next 2 years, when replacing
the whole shebang with new up-to-date machines and software will be
afforded.
Thanks to all here, especially you who are most annoyed at my slow
learning curve with knowing what helps you help me.
John Vengrouskie
Soundscenes DC
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