Pulling the battery will dump the PRAM memory. If there is a CUDA switch on the mobo yes, get a small stick, reach in and hold it down at least 60 seconds.
CUDA looks like a tiny silver square with a black or red tiny button in the middle. Somewhere online there will be a photo or digaram of your mobo. Adrian D'Alessio aka; Fluxstringer fluxstrin...@gmail.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/fluxstreamcommunication/ http://www.facebook.com/FluxStringer https://www.youtube.com/user/fluxstringer http://www.linkedin.com/in/fluxstreamcommunications http://flux-influx.blogspot.com/ http://fluxdreams.designbinder.com/ On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 5:36 PM, Mira Kehoe <mirake...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, everyone, for your advice! I successfully swapped out the video > cards this afternoon; it only took 10 minutes. Some applications seem to > take a little more time to open or close, but everything seems to be > working fine as of now. > > I appreciate the experience of this group.... many thanks! > > Mira > > > On Saturday, October 24, 2015, Mira Kehoe <mirake...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> By "home page", I mean my "desktop"... I'm the only user on this >> computer, so I don't log in. >> >> The Apple person said the the graphics card is the last thing to "boot >> up" ... I'm not sure that's the term he used, but he said that's why >> the blue screen is taking so long. >> >> It wouldn't hurt to change out the cards and see how it behaves. >> >> I think that using the utility you mentioned could be a good idea, but >> I could possibly get myself in a situation I can't interpret. >> >> The Apple Genius Bar will let you bring in any Apple device, they just >> won't "repair" anything that's too old. They have been very helpful >> over the years. >> >> Thanks for your thoughts, >> >> Mira >> >> On 10/24/15, NODEraser <nodera...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 9:54 PM, mkehoe <mirake...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> >> The Apple genius bar person was pretty sure that the video card on the >> >> 1.25 >> >> dual G4 is causing the symptoms I've been having: long time on the >> solid >> >> blue screen before my home page appears, etc. >> > >> > They still provide support at the Genius Bar for PowerPC products? >> > That's pretty surprising. When you say "home page", I assume you're >> > talking about the login screen when booting? I don't see how your >> > graphics card could affect that unless there's something going on with >> > hardware identification/initialization that is causing a delay. You >> > could use a utility like XPostFacto to enter verbose mode on startup >> > and look at any messages that stall for a while. >> > >> > While there is a difference between those two cards (the 9000 is a >> > level or two higher than the MX 4 in terms of performance, depending >> > on the specific model of card) there shouldn't be any noticeable >> > difference in OS X itself, unless you're doing some gaming or running >> > a really high resolution. >> > >> > -- >> > [Greg Bennett] >> > -Independent Carpenter, Electrician & Lighting Designer >> > -Purveyor of Classic Apple & Macintosh Gear >> > http://www.hsiprodsvcs.com/ >> > http://www.macshack.us/ >> > >> > -- >> > -- >> > 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com >> > For more options, visit this group at >> > http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list >> > >> > --- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the >> > Google Groups "G-Group" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit >> > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/g3-5-list/cVU18wSNV7c/unsubscribe. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to >> > g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > >> > -- > -- > 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "G-Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- 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. 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