Re: airport card on g4 500 sawtooth agp

2010-09-30 Thread Ashgrove
A simple fix is just taking it out and putting it back, trying to go all the way in until it clicks. Also, make sure the antenna is all the way in. Airport cards are tricky that way. Good luck, Felix On Sep 30, 1:07 am, G-Group junman...@gmail.com wrote: my g4 500 titanium powerbook died on me

Re: Another Quicksilver Question

2010-09-30 Thread Stephen Conrad
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net wrote: On Sep 29, 2010, at 9:51 PM, Stephen Conrad wrote: I have a question regarding the CD-ROM drive Whenever I put in a CD with stuff on it (NOT a CD you buy with music on it) it is a crap shoot if the machine will

Re: Another Quicksilver Question

2010-09-30 Thread Bill Connelly
On Sep 30, 2010, at 12:51 AM, Stephen Conrad wrote: I have a question regarding the CD-ROM drive Whenever I put in a CD with stuff on it (NOT a CD you buy with music on it) it is a crap shoot if the machine will recognize it. Some it gives me two options (Ignore or Eject) and some it never

Re: Tiger won't ichat on G4 or G5 PPC's?

2010-09-30 Thread John Markowitz
iChat works just fine on my system (Tiger, fully updated).  It and Adium even talk at each other. You gots a hole in your firewall enabled for iChat Bonjour? You gots separate AIM or .Mac accounts for each login session? Have you tried trashing prefs and such? I have found that Tiger and

RE: Another Quicksilver Question possible dirty lense on drive.

2010-09-30 Thread Stephen Rudy
Dirty lens is my first guess. Get yourself one of those DVD drive cleaning disks with the little microfiber brushes sticking up on it. Cheaper than a drive, plus you can run it in your other optical drives around the house. Something like this:

Re: Digital Audio DP467mhz worth upgrading, and how?

2010-09-30 Thread Alex
I would go ahead and hot rod it by maxing out the RAM and getting a processor upgrade. Or you could just buy a faster Powermac. I got a DP 800MHz Quicksilver from eBay for $40. On Sep 29, 10:32 pm, Jonas Ulrich jonasulrich3...@gmail.com wrote: There was no dual 667MHZ or 467MHZ according to mac

Re: Digital Audio DP467mhz worth upgrading, and how?

2010-09-30 Thread JoeTaxpayer
I second this. The Dual MDD 1.0 or 1.25 GHz are the sweet spot for performance. They can be had with 2GB memory (that's worth about $100) for the mid $100 range if you look, track recent sales and are patient. With no card upgrades, they only need a USB2.0 card (you want to sync an iPod on USB1.0?

Re: I just bought a Powermac G4 dual 800

2010-09-30 Thread Ashgrove
On Sep 28, 3:46 pm, Alex kab...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, it is a Quicksilver model. And I'm getting an ATI Radeon 9600 card from ebay. Whatever you do, don't get a graphics card from somebody in China. I checked the prices and surprisingly the flashed Geforce 6200 have basically disappeared. If I

Re: I just bought a Powermac G4 dual 800

2010-09-30 Thread Alex
Ok. I haven't bought the graphics card yet so I'll try to find that one. Did you do the install from an Intel Mac? If you did that would be the problem. On Sep 30, 11:12 am, Ashgrove salum...@gmail.com wrote: On Sep 28, 3:46 pm, Alex kab...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, it is a Quicksilver model. And

Re: airport card on g4 500 sawtooth agp

2010-09-30 Thread dc
On Sep 30, 1:07 am, G-Group junman...@gmail.com wrote: my problem is with the airport card, it's not being recognized. has anyone run into this problem? You didn't mention your OS but you may need to reinstall the airport utility, check your utilities folder and see if it's there, see if it can

Re: Tiger won't ichat on G4 or G5 PPC's?

2010-09-30 Thread Clark Martin
On Sep 30, 2010, at 5:55 AM, John Markowitz wrote: iChat works just fine on my system (Tiger, fully updated). It and Adium even talk at each other. You gots a hole in your firewall enabled for iChat Bonjour? You gots separate AIM or .Mac accounts for each login session? Have you

Re: Another Quicksilver Question

2010-09-30 Thread Isaac Smith
I have a question regarding the CD-ROM drive Whenever I put in a CD with stuff on it (NOT a CD you buy with music on it) it is a crap shoot if the machine will recognize it. Some it gives me two options (Ignore or Eject) and some it never says anything nor do they show up on my desktop.

Re: Another Quicksilver Question possible dirty lense on drive.

2010-09-30 Thread Kevin Barth
If you don't have one, email me privately. I have tons and would be happy to send you one. On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Stephen Rudy sr...@cudc.org wrote: Dirty lens is my first guess. Get yourself one of those DVD drive cleaning disks with the little microfiber brushes sticking up on

Re: Another Quicksilver Question

2010-09-30 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/09/29 22:51, Stephen Conrad wrote: Whenever I put in a CD with stuff on it (NOT a CD you buy with music on it) it is a crap shoot if the machine will recognize it. Some it gives me two options (Ignore or Eject) and some it never says anything nor do they show up on my desktop. I have a

Re: Annoyance #23

2010-09-30 Thread Joshua Juran
On Sep 30, 2010, at 8:05 AM, Charles Davis wrote: G5 tower Dual 2Ghz, 2Gb RAM, System Profiler provides this information: and from USB string: Picture 3.pngPicture 2.png The problem, there is only ONE internal modem physically there. Naturally, I would prefer the V.92 one to be what is

Re: Another Quicksilver Question

2010-09-30 Thread Stephen Conrad
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 7:53 AM, Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.netwrote: On Sep 30, 2010, at 12:51 AM, Stephen Conrad wrote: I have a question regarding the CD-ROM drive Whenever I put in a CD with stuff on it (NOT a CD you buy with music on it) it is a crap shoot if the machine will

Re: Another Quicksilver Question

2010-09-30 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 30, 2010, at 8:02 PM, Stephen Conrad wrote: Maybe you need a firmware upgrade: The latest firmware is v.1.19 available here: http://files.rpc1.org/index.php?act=categoryid=535 You can check your firmware version in System Profiler. You'll need a Windows PC to upgrade the firmware.

Re: Another Quicksilver Question

2010-09-30 Thread Stephen Conrad
On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: On Sep 30, 2010, at 8:02 PM, Stephen Conrad wrote: Maybe you need a firmware upgrade: The latest firmware is v.1.19 available here: http://files.rpc1.org/index.php?act=categoryid=535 You can check your firmware

Re: Annoyance #23

2010-09-30 Thread Charles Davis
Hi Josh: Your right, because there IS only one device. The question is WHY the different identifications, and where is the 'spurious' information coming from. I.I they ARE two views of the same device, Why are the listings different? And, what does it mean? and Why isn't there peace in

Re: Another Quicksilver Question

2010-09-30 Thread Charles Lenington
On 9/30/10 12:09 AM, Clark Martin wrote: On Sep 29, 2010, at 9:51 PM, Stephen Conrad wrote: I have a question regarding the CD-ROM drive Whenever I put in a CD with stuff on it (NOT a CD you buy with music on it) it is a crap shoot if the machine will recognize it. Some it gives me two

Re: Another Quicksilver Question

2010-09-30 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 30, 2010, at 8:23 PM, Charles Lenington wrote: Hummm I didn't know dvds worked in a cdrom drive. Great catch, duh . . . -- 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.

Re: Annoyance #23

2010-09-30 Thread Joshua Juran
On Sep 30, 2010, at 6:26 PM, Charles Davis wrote: Hi Josh: Your right, because there IS only one device. The question is WHY the different identifications, and where is the 'spurious' information coming from. I.I they ARE two views of the same device, Why are the listings different?

Re: airport card on g4 500 sawtooth agp

2010-09-30 Thread John Markowitz
On Sep 29, 2010, at 10:07 PM, G-Group wrote: my g4 500 titanium powerbook died on me so i took out the airport card and installed it on my g4 500 sawtooth desktop mac. i also added a 120gb hd as well as upgraded the cpu...sonnett??? my problem is with the airport card, it's not being

Re: Another Quicksilver Question

2010-09-30 Thread John Markowitz
I have tried: DVD-RW (4.7 GB, doesn't show up at all) CD-RW (shows up as Empty. 650 MB) CD-R (4 show they has music on them, 1 is the one with pics on it. It doesn't show up) All are 700 MB. The one that I tell it to Ignore it says cannot be read by this machine Do you get

Re: Tiger won't ichat on G4 or G5 PPC's?

2010-09-30 Thread John Markowitz
iChat works just fine on my system (Tiger, fully updated).  It and Adium even talk at each other. You gots a hole in your firewall enabled for iChat Bonjour? You gots separate AIM or .Mac accounts for each login session? Have you tried trashing prefs and such? I have found that Tiger and