Re: OS9 on MDD; Two Wanted Components Remain
On Jan 5, 11:12 am, t...@io.com t...@io.com wrote: On Jan 4, 11:50 pm, Todd - ttoo...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP also have two DVD drives with no way to open the secondary drive in OS 9 other than to always leave media in it so I can drag it to the trash. How do you open the primary drive in OS9? Jeff Walther Try CMD-e or F12 (hold the function key down for 2 seconds) Or use the free Eject app on the os-9 CD (this may only be on 9.2.1 or higher), Applications (Mac OS 9) - Apple Extras - Eject Extras There should be a control strip module in that folder which can be placed in the Control Strip Modules folder in System Folder, assuming you use the Control Strip you can also find the eject utility at http://bella-usa.com/Support/Drivers-legacy.htm (scroll to bottom of page) There is also a utility halfway down the page at http://www.macally.com/en/techsupport/Faqshow.asp?id=31 that may work. Also for those struggling to get OS9 working on MDD's I found a site that may be the answer to all your woes, http://inefficienciestoday.blogspot.com/2010/10/how-to-getting-mac-os-9-to-work-on-rare.html Hope this helps Ben. -- 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
Re: Hardware test results on my G4 eMac - Memory issue?
On Oct 11, 11:37 pm, wren wrens.cozyn...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all, I have the eMac 1.25 gHz with 1 gb of ram. Owned since new. Replaced motherboard once under warranty a few years ago. Had been running 10.3.9 until May. Installed Tiger 10.4.11 and have been using it smoothly ever since. Last week, I got my first ever kernel panic. Screen said, you must shut down ... etc. I ran everything I knew how to for diagnostics - which was only the Utilities and then Onyx to clear all caches and tidy up stuff. It ran smoothly after this so I thought it was okay again. Today it crashed with same kernel panic. But - when I forced reboot, it would only show the apple icon and spinning thing - then slowly it went to a blue screen. Blue screen flickered, but did nothing to finish booting. snip It came up with a memory error: Erorr code 2MEM/104/4:DIMM1/J1 snip Thanks, -Lynn / Wren Unfortunately this sounds like the all too common capacitor fault that affects many of the 1.25Ghz eMac's, open the door on the underside and have a look at the capacitors (aluminium cans about 1 inch high and a quarter of an inch in diameter with either a black or brown label ). if any are bulged on the top or leaking (white or brown crusty deposits on the top or around the base) then they need to be changed as the problem will only get worse until you can only boot in safe mode. Sorry if this sounds like gloom and doom, but I can speak from experience as I had this happen to my son's eMac, thankfully I am a test engineer and could do the repair myself. Ben. -- 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
Re: troubles upgrading new to me Quicksilver with Radeon 9200 and Airport Issues
On Aug 20, 6:36 am, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: On Aug 19, 2010, at 10:00 PM, Marty Levine wrote: The Quicksilver boots up with the original video card but the machine will not even power up with the 9200 card installed. I'm thinking the problem with the Radeon 9200 is the old pins 3 11 issue. The 9200 is normally an AGPx8 card, and needs tape or modification to disable pins 3 11. You can read about the 9200 here: http://lowendmac.com/video/agp/radeon-9200.html Here is the pins 3 11 info here: http://themacelite.wikidot.com/pins-3-and-11 I would agree with this, the AGP slot in any Mac that originally supported Apple display port (the one that powers the monitor) used pin 3 11 as power on so that the monitor could power up the Mac, at the time (AGP 1x / 2x) the pins had not been defined so Apple decided to use them in a non-standard way. However when AGP 8x came out the pins were used. What this means is that any non Display Port AGP card will probably ground pins 3 11, the motherboard then thinks the power button is held down and won't power on. The easy way round this is to just cut the traces to these pins (just ensure you have the right ones BEFORE you cut !) as the tape method is fiddly and needs re-doing almost every time you remove the card. Ben. -- 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
Re: Can I add IR to my Quicksilver?
On May 23, 8:50 am, Kevin Barth godai@gmail.com wrote: Yes, they are networked. Not that that helps me any. ARA would solve the problem if: 1) The MB was in the same room as the QS, or at least close enough to allow me to hit it with the remote. It isn't. One of the Apple Remote's sad limitations is that it doesn't work through walls, or across the approximately 30 linear feet of space between where I'd be sitting and where the MB is located. You can buy IR extenders, they are used were you have set-ups like a Sat box in one room and a second TV in the bedroom, they comprise a detector and an IR transmitter either wired together or wireless, as far as I am aware these will work with any IR device including the Apple remote. you should find suitable devices at any TV shop. Ben. -- 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
Re: OFF-LIST: I can't format this new hard drive???
On Apr 26, 6:25 am, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: On Apr 25, 2010, at 10:33 PM, Richard Gerome wrote: I have to say I got this old Clamshell running and that 7200rpm HD really woke this machine up!!! If you've had that much improvement going from a 4,200rpm HD to a 7,200rpm, a solid-state HD would be even better, and conserve a little of that precious battery life also. The downside of the 7,200rpm is heat output, which has been known to overheat laptops, and decreased battery run-time. I believe modern 5,400rpm laptop HDs offer substantial improvement over the OEM Apple 4,200rpm HDs that came in the clamshell. I think you will find that newer 7200 rpm drives use less power and run cooler than the original Apple 4200 rpm drives, I have seen people claim an increased battery life with a newer (faster) drive. Also while solid state sounds great I think all the current ones are SATA so you would need to find a very slimline converter that you could shoehorn into the Clamshell, that would probably have an impact on the speed and would also consume power. Ben. -- 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
Re: List view
On Nov 17, 1:36 pm, Vic vma...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 16, 11:44 am, ben64sm...@googlemail.com ben64sm...@googlemail.com wrote: Recently the digest has started to arrive in HTML rather than plain text and it is HORRIBLE. I cannot see any way of reverting back to plain text, I am using Thunderbird. can anyone help as I don't want to leave such a useful group but find the new format too ugly for words. Yes, it sucks. In T-bird, go to view/message body as/plain text That should fix it. V Mabus Many thanks, that fixed it fine, I don't know if it was a change to the way the digest was sent out, or an update to Thunderbird that caused it to appear as HTML, it is nice to be back to plain text. Ben. -- 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
Re: List view
On Nov 18, 5:42 pm, ben64sm...@googlemail.com ben64sm...@googlemail.com wrote: On Nov 17, 1:36 pm, Vic vma...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 16, 11:44 am, ben64sm...@googlemail.com ben64sm...@googlemail.com wrote: Recently the digest has started to arrive in HTML rather than plain text and it is HORRIBLE. I cannot see any way of reverting back to plain text, I am using Thunderbird. can anyone help as I don't want to leave such a useful group but find the new format too ugly for words. Yes, it sucks. In T-bird, go to view/message body as/plain text That should fix it. V Mabus Many thanks, that fixed it fine, I don't know if it was a change to the way the digest was sent out, or an update to Thunderbird that caused it to appear as HTML, it is nice to be back to plain text. Ben. Update, I was too fast to say it was fine, now ALL my mail is plain text, some things (like flyers from some companies) I want in HTML, it is just this group that has suddenly become HTML that I want back as plain text, is there any way of telling Google groups you only want plain text?? I don't want to spend half my time changing views. Ben. -- 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
Re: Classic on an MDD (FW800) running 10.4.11
On Oct 21, 5:33 am, lrbarrios lrbarr...@datastarusa.com wrote: On Oct 20, 4:59 am, Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.net wrote: On Oct 20, 2009, at 1:47 AM, lrbarrios wrote: Dragged (copied) the 'System Folder' (which is the OS 9 System Folder) and the 'Applications (OS 9)' folders over to the root of my G4. 'Blessed' the System Folder (Google that). ... Congrats. I probably would have tried to copy using CCC, which may have guaranteed any invisible files ... but if things worked, don't fix it. Doesn't CCC copy into folders as well as into partitions? I've only done the partition to partition copying, but did so over a network as well. So, in summation... As this was a second-hand purchase of the MDD, I didn't get the original discs. I did get the manual and the retail box of Tiger. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but apparently there was an OS X CD/DVD that came with this MDD (FW800) that would let you install OS 9? Just curious. I don't think that the FW800 had specific OS9 (I am not sure if it was supplied with OS9 at all), as it is only required on the FW400 MDD so you can boot OS9, on the FW800 you can only use OS9 as Classic, so the machine specific ROM file and drivers would not be needed. Also there is no point in installing OS9 drivers on the HDD as they are only used to -BOOT- OS9, and serve no purpose for Classic. The NetBoot image another poster suggested is probably the best route to go down as it can install from OSX and has all you need for running Classic. Ben. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
