Re: Need recommendations for 500 Gig or larger external firewire drive and high capacity internal drive for iBook G4

2009-11-24 Thread AHarmon
About the only thing LaCie's drives have been good for is replacements for older PowerMac internal HD... they work much better when you take the drives out of the case, and find that they are. SAMSUNG drives. ta da! On Nov 23, 9:34 am, Geoff Black bla...@telkomsa.net wrote: Hate talking

CD/DVD Drives in MDD Bays...

2009-11-24 Thread AHarmon
What is the highest rev version of Panasonic drive (107 et al) that will fit and work with a MDD PowerMac. Getting the drive in the caddy is not good enough. It has to be able to eject and retract through both doors - whose internal bevelings are not identical, BTW I KNOW a 104-type will

Re: CD/DVD Drives in MDD Bays...

2009-11-24 Thread Andrew Collins
I fitted a Sony DVD writer (unfortunately I don't have the model number to hand) into my MDD by simply unclipping the bezel from the front of the tray. The tray then passes without problem through either of the drive doors. You may be able to do the same with a Panasonic drive. Andrew. On Nov

Re: CD/DVD Drives in MDD Bays...

2009-11-24 Thread Richard Smallwood
Any should go. I put a PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-116D in my 1.25 Ghz G4 MDD. The front bezel had to be removed (a 20 second deal - 2 minutes if you cannot back from front). Richard On 24 Nov 2009, at 6:18 AM, AHarmon wrote: What is the highest rev version of Panasonic drive (107 et al) that will

Re: Video upgrade options for a Gigabit Ethernet G4

2009-11-24 Thread Kasey Smith
On Nov 23, 2009, at 10:23 PM, Stewie de Young wrote: An AGP card is also a lot faster than its PCI equivalent as well. Not all AGP cards are faster, a AGP 1x (never used by Apple) is equivalent to the 33MHz, 64-bit PCI slot used in the PowerMac G3 BW and the early G4s -- You received

copy of panic log for iBook G4 running Tiger and having lots of kernel panics

2009-11-24 Thread Dwight Hines
There is also a crash log that will send in a separate email. I sure hope someone can explain the panic log. Dwight HinesFri Nov 20 09:21:45 2009 panic(cpu 0 caller 0x000A8B80): Uncorrectable machine check: pc = 0084723C, msr = 00149030, dsisr = 4000, dar = 00E3040C

Re: Video upgrade options for a Gigabit Ethernet G4

2009-11-24 Thread John Niven
--- On Tue, 11/24/09, Kasey Smith kasm...@gmail.com wrote: An AGP card is also a lot faster than its PCI equivalent as well. Not all AGP cards are faster, a AGP 1x (never used by Apple) is equivalent  to the 33MHz, 64-bit PCI slot used in the PowerMac G3 BW and the early G4s The BW has a

Re: copy of panic log for iBook G4 running Tiger and having lots of kernel panics

2009-11-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 24, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Dwight Hines wrote: 0x000ABA30 0x backtrace continues... Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies): com.apple.iokit.AppleAirPort3(360.4)@0x841000 dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONetworkingFamily(1.5.0)@0x59e000 dependency:

Re: copy of panic log for iBook G4 running Tiger and having lots of kernel panics

2009-11-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 24, 2009, at 1:41 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: My initial guess is that you have a bad Airport card. Removing it would be the definitive test, although in 10.4 the Airport is disabled, which may prevent the KP's. although in Safe Boot in 10.4 the airport is disabled would make a hell

Re: Video upgrade options for a Gigabit Ethernet G4

2009-11-24 Thread John Niven
-- On Tue, 11/24/09, Kasey Smith kasm...@gmail.com wrote: I have a second Rage 128 in my PowerMac G3. I kinds got mixed up  there, but oh well. So the question is: do you get different performance from the two cards. I.E. is the speed of the PCI slot the limitation? I think the 66MHz PCI

Installing an OS on my G3

2009-11-24 Thread Gary Conrad
I was given 4 disks.1.- Apple PowerMac G4 hardware test, I hold c down when I turn it on and I get a screen that tells me the disk is not for my system, Okay. The CD-drive works and I am getting something basic. 2. PowerMac G4 software install and restore OS 10.2.4 Cannot get it to give me

Re: Installing an OS on my G3

2009-11-24 Thread John Niven
Your title says G3, your software says G4. Hence your problem. --- On Tue, 11/24/09, Gary Conrad kc7...@gmail.com wrote: From: Gary Conrad kc7...@gmail.com Subject: Installing an OS on my G3 To: G-Group g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Date: Tuesday, November 24, 2009, 3:54 PM I was given 4

Re: Video upgrade options for a Gigabit Ethernet G4

2009-11-24 Thread Kasey Smith
I get about the same performance from them, although Otto Matic is a tad bit slower now that i have the two displays... ): On Nov 24, 2009, at 2:42 PM, John Niven wrote: -- On Tue, 11/24/09, Kasey Smith kasm...@gmail.com wrote: I have a second Rage 128 in my PowerMac G3. I kinds got mixed up

Re: Installing an OS on my G3

2009-11-24 Thread Kasey Smith
On Nov 24, 2009, at 2:54 PM, Gary Conrad wrote: I was given 4 disks.1.- Apple PowerMac G4 hardware test, I hold c down when I turn it on and I get a screen that tells me the disk is not for my system, Okay. The CD-drive works and I am getting something basic. Thats because its for a different

Re: Installing an OS on my G3

2009-11-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 24, 2009, at 2:54 PM, Gary Conrad wrote: I was given 4 disks.1.- Apple PowerMac G4 hardware test, I hold c down when I turn it on and I get a screen that tells me the disk is not for my system, Okay. The CD-drive works and I am getting something basic. 2. PowerMac G4 software install

G4 getting wonky with cpu hungry widgets.

2009-11-24 Thread carter foreman
Hi I have a G4 dual 1ghz 1.5 GB RAM, OS 10.4.11. Lately i have been having an issue with the widgets taking way too much cpu time. So i turned them off. Safari keeps quiting and it takes way too much CPU time too. Apps quit too frequently and memory seems to be leaking. Right now i am running

Re: G4 getting wonky with cpu hungry widgets.

2009-11-24 Thread Bill Connelly
On Nov 24, 2009, at 6:48 PM, carter foreman wrote: Hi I have a G4 dual 1ghz 1.5 GB RAM, OS 10.4.11. Lately i have been having an issue with the widgets taking way too much cpu time. So i turned them off. Safari keeps quiting and it takes way too much CPU time too. Apps quit too

Re: G4 getting wonky with cpu hungry widgets.

2009-11-24 Thread Kasey Smith
Have you tried repairing permissions? On Nov 24, 2009, at 4:48 PM, carter foreman wrote: Hi I have a G4 dual 1ghz 1.5 GB RAM, OS 10.4.11. Lately i have been having an issue with the widgets taking way too much cpu time. So i turned them off. Safari keeps quiting and it takes way too much

Re: G4 getting wonky with cpu hungry widgets.

2009-11-24 Thread carter foreman
yup that dosnt seem to affect it. On Nov 24, 2009, at 8:24 PM, Kasey Smith wrote: Have you tried repairing permissions? On Nov 24, 2009, at 4:48 PM, carter foreman wrote: Hi I have a G4 dual 1ghz 1.5 GB RAM, OS 10.4.11. Lately i have been having an issue with the widgets taking way too

RE: Video upgrade options for a Gigabit Ethernet G4

2009-11-24 Thread Stewie de Young
I think at the lower end of the scale like a 16mb 2 x AGP vs a 16mb PCI card there would be very little difference but when you start to compare a 128mb PCI vs a 128mb 4 x AGP card there would be a much bigger disparity in performance. See here for a comparison

Re: Dual Boot into Linux, OSX

2009-11-24 Thread Clark Martin
Nestamicky wrote: On 11/23/09 2:38 PM, Clark Martin wrote: I have Fedora on a separate partition on my G4. Would you guys care to say which G4 you have. I'm ready to tryout a Linux on my Sawtooth, cuz I'm sick and tired of how 'old' present day apps, especially simple things like internet