iMac SE issues
Hi All Anyone have any ideas what may be causing the following issues in an iMac DV SE and how to rectify them: 3 strikes before powering up, I have to reset it twice before the screen will come on and the chime happens Surging/flickering in speakers, they buzz and make a flickering sound even when the iMac is shut down and head phone in Visible screen refresh, the centre of the screen is clear but the edges seem to roll and quake. I think that has something to do with the kinks in the black cable that surround the CRT for some magnetic thing??? crashing in fullscreen mode for most Open GL games especially games that launch movies It is using an older IDE HD taken from a beige G3 and I received it dismantled so more than likely there's static discharge damage extra info: running 128MB RAM, OS 9.2, 4.2 GB HD rather than 13GB Anyone else had extreme issues like this or know what's the best option apart from part harvesting or trash? Is there hope? Regards Christian
Re: iMac SE issues
On 23/04/2005 11:53 PM, Christian Kotz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All Anyone have any ideas what may be causing the following issues in an iMac DV SE and how to rectify them: 3 strikes before powering up, I have to reset it twice before the screen will come on and the chime happens Surging/flickering in speakers, they buzz and make a flickering sound even when the iMac is shut down and head phone in Visible screen refresh, the centre of the screen is clear but the edges seem to roll and quake. I think that has something to do with the kinks in the black cable that surround the CRT for some magnetic thing??? crashing in fullscreen mode for most Open GL games especially games that launch movies It is using an older IDE HD taken from a beige G3 and I received it dismantled so more than likely there's static discharge damage extra info: running 128MB RAM, OS 9.2, 4.2 GB HD rather than 13GB Anyone else had extreme issues like this or know what's the best option apart from part harvesting or trash? Is there hope? Regards Christian By three strikes, if you mean three beeps, then this normally means bad RAM. If you've got 2 RAM chips in it then I would take one out. Otherwise I would take it out and replace it with another and see if it does the same thing. By the sound of it there may be other issues, but I would rule this one out first. :o) Hope that helps. Kind Regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: danielATmacwizardryDOTcomDOTau Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh**
Re: iMac SE issues
on 24/04/05 01:09, Christian Kotz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry what I meant by three strikes is first I power it up and the HD moves to position but there is no tone or screen activity so I push the reset button and boot it again, by this stage the screen is on but no sound or HD activity. Third time/second reset it fires up with start up tone and OS loading. This is if the computer has been shut down and powerless for say over 10 minutes. No problems when restarting. When waking from sleep it also needs to be reset, otherwise just a black screen. As for the RAM it was a single 128 MB module but I swapped it with 2X 64 MB modules and no change. Also it has a fresh clock battery which I thought was flat and causing the problem but apparently not. Regards Christian On 23/04/2005, at 11:59 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: On 23/04/2005 11:53 PM, Christian Kotz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All Anyone have any ideas what may be causing the following issues in an iMac DV SE and how to rectify them: 3 strikes before powering up, I have to reset it twice before the screen will come on and the chime happens Surging/flickering in speakers, they buzz and make a flickering sound even when the iMac is shut down and head phone in Visible screen refresh, the centre of the screen is clear but the edges seem to roll and quake. I think that has something to do with the kinks in the black cable that surround the CRT for some magnetic thing??? crashing in fullscreen mode for most Open GL games especially games that launch movies It is using an older IDE HD taken from a beige G3 and I received it dismantled so more than likely there's static discharge damage extra info: running 128MB RAM, OS 9.2, 4.2 GB HD rather than 13GB Anyone else had extreme issues like this or know what's the best option apart from part harvesting or trash? Is there hope? Regards Christian Disclaimer: I am not a computer technician! When faultfinding electrical/electronic systems, if faced with symptoms like this (erratic operation in a few areas, not firing up at first) the first thing I'd want to rule out would be power supply problems - are all voltages as they should be and stable? - is some component/circuit on the way out and at the marginal stage - problems when cold and/or when under too much load, etc. To check though you would need to either be familiar with all the correct values expected/acceptable variations, have a working machine to compare with or have suitable spares to change out see if it fixes it. Maybe some Apple experienced tech could comment further or suggest what to check to rule this in or out. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Fax: +61 8 9841 6137 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
email attachment weirdness
I receive a weekly Market Bulletin from Commsec - its a pdf sent as an attachment to an HTML email. This week the email didn't show an attachment but seemed to show much of the source code - starting at: Mime-Version: 1.0 and including tall the html coding and raw PDF code in the body of the email Maybe it was Sunday morning making me question the mysteries of the universe but I wondered why. I compared the source code of the message with the code for last weeks email and noticed that there seemed to be an extra blank line between the Subject: header and the Mime-Version: 1.0 line. Intrigued I dragged the email to the desktop, removed the blank line with BBEdit lite and dropped it back in the inbox - sure enough the email now displayed as usual showing the pdf as an attachment which opened fine in acrobat. So, having found the problem, I'm wondering where it came from - is this down to Commsec sending an email with a problem, my client introducing the problem on receipt, or something that comes from one of the mail servers on the way - or is any of the above possible/probable? No biggie here - I'm just curious as to how this stuff works. TIA Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Fax: +61 8 9841 6137 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: email attachment weirdness
Hi Neil, I got the same email yesterday so its possibly how it was sent. I know they had to resend one a couple of weeks/months ago but that was because they forgot the attachment. Kind regards, Greg Satti www.zytech.com.au PO Box 758, Bunbury WA 6230 Ph: (08) 9721 1125 Fx: (08) 9721 1126 Mob: 0423 558 636 The online data storage technology store On 24/4/05 10:05 AM, Neil Houghton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I receive a weekly Market Bulletin from Commsec - its a pdf sent as an attachment to an HTML email. This week the email didn't show an attachment but seemed to show much of the source code - starting at: Mime-Version: 1.0 and including tall the html coding and raw PDF code in the body of the email Maybe it was Sunday morning making me question the mysteries of the universe but I wondered why. I compared the source code of the message with the code for last weeks email and noticed that there seemed to be an extra blank line between the Subject: header and the Mime-Version: 1.0 line. Intrigued I dragged the email to the desktop, removed the blank line with BBEdit lite and dropped it back in the inbox - sure enough the email now displayed as usual showing the pdf as an attachment which opened fine in acrobat. So, having found the problem, I'm wondering where it came from - is this down to Commsec sending an email with a problem, my client introducing the problem on receipt, or something that comes from one of the mail servers on the way - or is any of the above possible/probable? No biggie here - I'm just curious as to how this stuff works. TIA Neil
Printer not responding
I recently upgraded a slot-loading iMac from MacOSX 2 to 3.8. Since that time the Printer is not responding. I have pinged Ethernet with positive results, so the problem appears to be the printer. Connections are solid, and it prints a test sheet without problems. It worked fine previously. LaserWriter Select 360, Serial adapter/Ethernet connection. Can anyone offer suggestions on what to try next? Vlad James
Re: Printer not responding
On 24/04/2005, at 11:12 AM, Vladimir James wrote: I recently upgraded a slot-loading iMac from MacOSX 2 to 3.8. Since that time the Printer is not responding. I have pinged Ethernet with positive results, so the problem appears to be the printer. Connections are solid, and it prints a test sheet without problems. It worked fine previously. LaserWriter Select 360, Serial adapter/Ethernet connection. You do NOT say that you have deleted the Printer from the Printer Setup Centre , and then set it up afresh ! There were quite some changes between Jaguar and Panther ! For example in Jaguar some printers needed Gimp Print and then also Ghostscrip to be installed to set up some specific printers . Panther description says Ghostscrip is no longer needed .. But for some specials ghostscrip still needs to be installed. eg ... Printing from OSX to a Stylewriter. Also... for some specials you need to setup PPD files . These really stretching my understanding ... but I follow what instructions I can find. Have fun Bob Can anyone offer suggestions on what to try next? Vlad James
Re: iMac SE issues
When starting it up today, I was greeted by further bad news. The computer made 3 beep tones and the power light flashes three times in amber quite rapidly then changes to green, then back to the flashing amber. What does this mean? prior to this It also was crashing after loading Open Transport extension, then graphics accelerator extension and then when loading the desktop. It's sick that's for sure Regards Christian On 23/04/2005, at 11:59 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: On 23/04/2005 11:53 PM, Christian Kotz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All Anyone have any ideas what may be causing the following issues in an iMac DV SE and how to rectify them: 3 strikes before powering up, I have to reset it twice before the screen will come on and the chime happens Surging/flickering in speakers, they buzz and make a flickering sound even when the iMac is shut down and head phone in Visible screen refresh, the centre of the screen is clear but the edges seem to roll and quake. I think that has something to do with the kinks in the black cable that surround the CRT for some magnetic thing??? crashing in fullscreen mode for most Open GL games especially games that launch movies It is using an older IDE HD taken from a beige G3 and I received it dismantled so more than likely there's static discharge damage extra info: running 128MB RAM, OS 9.2, 4.2 GB HD rather than 13GB Anyone else had extreme issues like this or know what's the best option apart from part harvesting or trash? Is there hope? Regards Christian By three strikes, if you mean three beeps, then this normally means bad RAM. If you've got 2 RAM chips in it then I would take one out. Otherwise I would take it out and replace it with another and see if it does the same thing. By the sound of it there may be other issues, but I would rule this one out first. :o) Hope that helps. Kind Regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: danielATmacwizardryDOTcomDOTau Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
Re: iMac SE issues
On 24/04/2005, at 3:02 PM, Christian Kotz wrote: When starting it up today, I was greeted by further bad news. The computer made 3 beep tones and the power light flashes three times in amber quite rapidly then changes to green, then back to the flashing amber. What does this mean? prior to this It also was crashing after loading Open Transport extension, then graphics accelerator extension and then when loading the desktop. It's sick that's for sure Regards Christian On 23/04/2005, at 11:59 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: On 23/04/2005 11:53 PM, Christian Kotz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All Anyone have any ideas what may be causing the following issues in an iMac DV SE and how to rectify them: 3 strikes before powering up, I have to reset it twice before the screen will come on and the chime happens Surging/flickering in speakers, they buzz and make a flickering sound even when the iMac is shut down and head phone in Visible screen refresh, the centre of the screen is clear but the edges seem to roll and quake. I think that has something to do with the kinks in the black cable that surround the CRT for some magnetic thing??? crashing in fullscreen mode for most Open GL games especially games that launch movies It is using an older IDE HD taken from a beige G3 and I received it dismantled so more than likely there's static discharge damage extra info: running 128MB RAM, OS 9.2, 4.2 GB HD rather than 13GB Anyone else had extreme issues like this or know what's the best option apart from part harvesting or trash? Is there hope? Regards Christian By three strikes, if you mean three beeps, then this normally means bad RAM. If you've got 2 RAM chips in it then I would take one out. Otherwise I would take it out and replace it with another and see if it does the same thing. By the sound of it there may be other issues, but I would rule this one out first. :o) Hope that helps. Kind Regards Daniel Hi Christian, As Daniel has already said, Three Beeps: No RAM banks passed memory testing. Bad RAM. : Replace the existing SDRAM one DIMM at a time with known-good PC-100 SDRAM. Cheers, Ronni When Microsoft asks you, Where do you want to go today? Tell them, Apple!
Re: iMac SE issues
Ronda Brown wrote: On 24/04/2005, at 3:02 PM, Christian Kotz wrote: When starting it up today, I was greeted by further bad news. The computer made 3 beep tones and the power light flashes three times in amber quite rapidly then changes to green, then back to the flashing amber. What does this mean? prior to this It also was crashing after loading Open Transport extension, then graphics accelerator extension and then when loading the desktop. It's sick that's for sure elsnipo As Daniel has already said, Three Beeps: No RAM banks passed memory testing. Bad RAM. : Replace the existing SDRAM one DIMM at a time with known-good PC-100 SDRAM. Cheers, Ronni When Microsoft asks you, Where do you want to go today? Tell them, Apple! I would also get the power supply checked out, to me (without opening the box) I would say it is suffering, and is not providing the grunt it needs to start, if the HDD you are running is an older one (more than 2-3 years) the bearings will be wearing and the grease starts to go hard when cold, trying to get them to spin up with a PSU that is not in good shape can take a few tries (alot of IBM eng's will know this one from the old days of spinning up HDD's that had not been used in months, sometimes you would have to physically spin the drive with no platters by hand about 20 -30 revolutions just to get it to run ;( If you need help in testing the PSU, phone me on 0419 923 731. Regards, Kat.
Re: iMac SE issues
I would also get the power supply checked out, to me (without opening the box) I would say it is suffering, and is not providing the grunt it needs to start, if the HDD you are running is an older one (more than 2-3 years) the bearings will be wearing and the grease starts to go hard when cold, trying to get them to spin up with a PSU that is not in good shape can take a few tries (alot of IBM eng's will know this one from the old days of spinning up HDD's that had not been used in months, sometimes you would have to physically spin the drive with no platters by hand about 20 -30 revolutions just to get it to run ;( ah that takes me back to the old days of the other Apple SE the SE 30... they also had hard disks that used to suffer from a similar complaint - both mine and the ones at work once they got on in the years would often need to be perched up on a gas lift chair and then you'd spin the chair as rapidly as you'd dare and after a couple of revolutions quickly and forcefully grab SE and (obviously) stop it from spinning, then put back on the desk and boot it up... tell that to kids these days and will they belive you? -- ~ Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9380 2308 (GSE) 9380 1855 (ECEL) ECEL Computer Support Officer, University of Western Australia. CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. Andre Gide Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well preserved piece, but to skid across the line broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking oil, shouting GERONIMO Hunter S Thompson(?)
cpu activity on a web page
Howdy, Can any reader confirm the near 100 percent cpu activity when viewing this page: http://myplace.westnet.com.au/default.aspx in any or all of Safari, Firefox and Camino? I note that turning off the big flash phone ad reduces the cpu activity by around 40 percent. thanks in advance for any replies __ McOnamac OS X 10.3.9 1.25 GHz PowerPC G4 768 plenty RAM
Re: iMac SE issues
This may not be helpful but is amusing. This problem reminds me of a 40 mb external drive I had many years ago that wouldn't spin up, I drilled a hole through the outer and inner case that were aligned with the edge of the disk at an oblique angle, to start it I would give it a prod with a knitting needle, it was still working a couple of years later when I passed on to someone else. On 24/04/2005, at 5:09 PM, Mark Secker wrote: I would also get the power supply checked out, to me (without opening the box) I would say it is suffering, and is not providing the grunt it needs to start, if the HDD you are running is an older one (more than 2-3 years) the bearings will be wearing and the grease starts to go hard when cold, trying to get them to spin up with a PSU that is not in good shape can take a few tries (alot of IBM eng's will know this one from the old days of spinning up HDD's that had not been used in months, sometimes you would have to physically spin the drive with no platters by hand about 20 -30 revolutions just to get it to run ;( ah that takes me back to the old days of the other Apple SE the SE 30... they also had hard disks that used to suffer from a similar complaint - both mine and the ones at work once they got on in the years would often need to be perched up on a gas lift chair and then you'd spin the chair as rapidly as you'd dare and after a couple of revolutions quickly and forcefully grab SE and (obviously) stop it from spinning, then put back on the desk and boot it up... tell that to kids these days and will they belive you? -- ~ Mark Secker [EMAIL PROTECTED] 9380 2308 (GSE) 9380 1855 (ECEL) ECEL Computer Support Officer, University of Western Australia. CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. Andre Gide Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in one pretty and well preserved piece, but to skid across the line broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking oil, shouting GERONIMO Hunter S Thompson(?) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] WAMUG is powered by Stalker CommuniGatePro
Canberra to Blackheath near Katoomba
Dear All, Well here we are in the Blue Mountains. We had a wonderful week in Canberra with Sue's cousin Peter his partner Jill. We have been to Canberra before, but we really enjoyed this visit. We were there particularly for Peter's 70th birthday party which was held by Lake Burley Griffin. We visited the War Memorial Museum for an afternoon but could, in fact, have spent the whole day there. We also went into' Civic' in Canberra and went to the Canberra Museum and Gallery, where Jill works. It really was fascinating. There was a display by two artists who each had painted the same subject for three hours. The artists used different mediums and the results were amazing. There were about fifteen portraits and we were entranced. On 15th April ( Sue's birthday) Peter took us to Thredbo. An interesting drive and well worth it. The architecture at Thredbo was most interesting and we could see the ski slopes. We passed on the cable car ride to Mt Kosciusko as we both had a nasty virus and were not feeling the best. On Wednesday Peter Jill took us to dinner at University House (ANU). It was a wonderful evening where we met fascinating people and it was rounded off by a talk on How words get into the dictionary-- most interesting by the man who edited the McQuarrie Dictionary . On Thursday Jill took us to see her family home which is now a museum. It was one of the first houses built in Canberra and has remained unchanged since 1926 and really is worth a visit. It is called Calthorpes' House. We were so lucky to have Jill show us around and fill us in on all of the history as well as play the pianola! Her mother, Dawn, has written a book about her childhood in that house and it is a joy to read. As it happened , we went and had afternoon tea with Dawn after we had visited the house, so that was really special. She knew that we both had birthdays in April so she had baked a cake which was lovely. Her house and garden are lovely and so we were really privileged to be shown around. On the last day in Canberra we went to the National Art Gallery and saw an exhibition by Thea Procter. It was absolutely stunning and we could have spent all day there. When you walk out of the gallery (the old Houses of Parliament) you look back towards the War Museum and the view is amazing. I must say that we appreciated Canberra much more this time and were really sorry to leave. Jill and Peter were great hosts and we look forward to their next visit to Perth. Having left Canberra we headed for Cowra. We stayed for four nights as we were still recovering from some rotten bug that we took to Canberra!. Cowra was very interesting because of the break out by the Japanese POWs during World War II. The Japanese cemeteries in particular were impressive. They have evidently buried all Japanese citizens who died in Australia during the second world war in this cemetery. There is also cemetery for the Australian soldiers. We saw the 'Peace Bell' and also the Japanese Gardens which were stunning. We then headed off for Bathurst as Mac wanted to drive around Mount Panorama. I think that he was rather hoping to do it with the caravan but we desisted.:-( I must say that the drive was interestingand coming off the mountain would have been terrifying at speed. We also went to the Fossil Museum and the Warren Somerville Mineral collection, both housed in an old School, which was superb and must be world standard. We then set off for Oberon in the Blue Mountains. It was quite a climb but a very pretty town. We decided to go and see the Jenolan Caves. What a drive! A really steep and winding road down into the gorge. We then had quite a walk down to the cave but the scenery was spectacular. Once down there we booked in to do a cave tour. There were so many people and all of the tours were pretty booked up. Anyway we went on the Lucas tour which took one and a half hours, but it was worth it. We had intended to do the Kanangra Walls walk next but we ran out of time. We went back the next day and were glad that we had done so. The scenery was wonderful and we also walked down to the falls - rather steep. it is strange when you travel around the people you meet. Before we went on the Kanangra walk we met two men who were quite chatty and told us it was worth seeing. When we got back(about an hour later) they were still there and we had a coffee with them. One of them was very chatty and after he moved off the other guy told us that he was famous and had, in fact, been the first Australian to walk to both Poles and had OBEs!! They had just done a days walk from Katoomba to Kanangra Falls and were waiting to be picked up! We left Oberon and travelled to Blackheath (which is near Katoomba). The drive was fantastic and the caravan park is lovely, so we may stay here a few days as there is so much to see. We still want to do a hot
Re: IiNet Broadband 2?
-- I've done this same change about 3-4 weeks ago, and so far there have been no problems. The download speed you get depends on your distance from your exchange, I am about 3 km from mine (Subiaco) and get about 5100. -- You don't get a detailed list of your non-local calls from iiNet, but this information is available under your toolbox info. You get the usual iiNet billing, ie first an email account notifying you of the amount which will be be charged to your credit card at a date ahead (14 days?), then a similar paper account mailed to you, after which your card is debited on the date set. This is quite convenient for me. -- My conversion was a little different, as my broadband was coming in on my fax line, not my phone line. However this just meant that both my lines were switched to iiNet rates. -- A minor point for most is that Telstra do give a rebate on their rental charge for one home line for a pensioner, and other carriers don't. HTH. David Noel / 2005 Apr 24 = Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 10:49:21 +0800 From: Rod Blitvich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WAMUG Mailing List wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: IiNet Broadband 2? Hi Please does anyone know if there is any reason why I should not convert my iiNet Broadband account to their Broadband 2 service? For the same price ($49.95 with iphone): EXISTING BROADBAND 512lite 512 download, 128 upload 6 +6 GB quota NEW BROADBAND 2 Light 1500 - 8000 download, 256- 1000 upload 10 + 10 GB quota I realise that existing phone lines may mean I don't get the maximum speeds, but surely it will still be faster than what I have got? Ta Rod = From David Noel, Ben Franklin Centre [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Mail: PO Box 27, Subiaco, WA 6008, Australia. Fax: +61-8-9388 1852. Websites: http://www.aoi.com.au.
