Re: G5 RAM in a Mac Pro

2010-11-20 Thread Bruce Johnson
I always check Data Memory Systems. http://www.datamem.com . -- Bruce On Nov 16, 2010, at 5:41 AM, M Christol chris...@fuse.net wrote: Will RAM from a G5 work in a Mac Pro? I guess it's slower? thanks -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for

Re: USB stick read only

2010-11-20 Thread Geke
Flash drives have a limited number of times they can be written. When the controller on the drive detects that it cannot write anymore, it changes the drive to read only. It’s true, the stick is not the newest. But shouldn’t it last for quite some years if I use it only a couple of times a

Re: USB stick read only

2010-11-20 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/20 06:06, Geke so eloquently wrote: It’s true, the stick is not the newest. But shouldn’t it last for quite some years if I use it only a couple of times a week? I guess that depends on your definition of quite some years and exactly how much data you are writing those couple times

Re: USB stick read only

2010-11-20 Thread Dan
At 5:06 AM -0800 11/20/2010, Geke wrote: Somehow, this reminds me of the trouble with MSDOS-formatted floppy disks: when they are written to on several computers, and especially on a mix of Macs and PCs, they get corrupted easily. That was because of the drive heads being aligned slightly

Re: G5 RAM voltage

2010-11-20 Thread M Christol
On 11/19/10 8:49 PM, John Carmonne wrote: On Nov 19, 2010, at 5:19 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Nov 19, 2010, at 4:24 PM, M Christol wrote: I believe I have it in right but it's not showing up. My G5 is VERY picky about how the RAM is seated. In my experience, all computers that require

Re: USB stick read only

2010-11-20 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 20, 2010, at 10:29 AM, Dan wrote: At 5:06 AM -0800 11/20/2010, Geke wrote: Somehow, this reminds me of the trouble with MSDOS-formatted floppy disks: when they are written to on several computers, and especially on a mix of Macs and PCs, they get corrupted easily. That was because of

Re: G5 RAM voltage

2010-11-20 Thread M Christol
On 11/20/10 1:01 PM, M Christol wrote: I rearranged the RAM 2 original sticks in the third position are not working the new sticks in the first slots are not working. Basically, anything I touch isn't working :-) ok, Basically, anything I touch isn't working was right. reseated everything

Re: G5 RAM voltage

2010-11-20 Thread John Carmonne
On Nov 20, 2010, at 10:01 AM, M Christol wrote: On 11/19/10 8:49 PM, John Carmonne wrote: On Nov 19, 2010, at 5:19 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Nov 19, 2010, at 4:24 PM, M Christol wrote: I believe I have it in right but it's not showing up. My G5 is VERY picky about how the RAM is

G5 1.6, XBMC Home Theater?

2010-11-20 Thread Eric
Just got a free G5/1.6 with 2 DVI ports of different sizes (pardon my ignorance, but I didn't even know what DVI was until I got this machine). I ordered a DVI to VGA adapter (before realizing my current monitors have DVI too - I just didn't have cords) and because it only came with the stock

Re: G5 RAM voltage

2010-11-20 Thread John Carmonne
On Nov 20, 2010, at 10:15 AM, John Carmonne wrote: On Nov 20, 2010, at 10:01 AM, M Christol wrote: On 11/19/10 8:49 PM, John Carmonne wrote: On Nov 19, 2010, at 5:19 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Nov 19, 2010, at 4:24 PM, M Christol wrote: I believe I have it in right but it's not

Re: G5 1.6, XBMC Home Theater?

2010-11-20 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 20, 2010, at 1:06 AM, Eric wrote: Just got a free G5/1.6 with 2 DVI ports of different sizes (pardon my ignorance, but I didn't even know what DVI was until I got this machine). More than likely it's not two DVI ports, but one DVI and one ADC, if one has rounded sides, it's an ADC

MDD ??

2010-11-20 Thread DAN A CURRIE
Hello, Been years but I have a problem with my MDD, dual 1.25, 2GB RAM running 10.4. I unplugged it the other night during a t-storm, forgot to plug it back in and two days later when I did plug it in ... NOTHING! Pressed the power button on the monitor ... nothing. Pressed the power button

Re: MDD ??

2010-11-20 Thread Jason Brown
On 11/20/2010 3:48 PM, DAN A CURRIE wrote: Hello, Been years but I have a problem with my MDD, dual 1.25, 2GB RAM running 10.4. I unplugged it the other night during a t-storm, forgot to plug it back in and two days later when I did plug it in ... NOTHING! Pressed the power button on the

Re: MDD ??

2010-11-20 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 20, 2010, at 2:48 PM, DAN A CURRIE wrote: Hello, Been years but I have a problem with my MDD, dual 1.25, 2GB RAM running 10.4. I unplugged it the other night during a t-storm, forgot to plug it back in and two days later when I did plug it in ... NOTHING! Pressed the power

Re: USB stick read only

2010-11-20 Thread James Therrault
On Nov 20, 2010, at 12:04 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: What Dan said. Even well made ones die. Happened to me with a Sandisk one just yesterday. Suddenly just won't mount, no lights nothin. Toss it and get another one. Just like the SD card for my camera. Camera would act like it was

G3 450mhz dual

2010-11-20 Thread BLKBOX STUDIOZ
I have a g4 450 dual with 1.38 gigs of ram and a 27 meg interal drilve that is the main drive i have adobe c2 on it AE cs3 and Final cut 4.5 and it is now down to 5.97 gigs left now I also a have a 150gig ohter internal drive that I render to and save files to but. can I remove all those app to

Re: MDD ??

2010-11-20 Thread DAN A CURRIE
Dead/dying pram battery. Pull power plug, pull battery, press and hold cuda reset switch for about 5 seconds, plug power in but leave battery out and hit power. See if that doesnt bring it to life. If it does, your battery is the culprit. *Thanks guys*, it worked ... thought it was that but

G4 Sawtooth problem

2010-11-20 Thread Powermac
I snagged a G4-400 Sawtooth in the hopes of upgrading it to a dual G4-500. Unfortunatly I didn't know you need a Uni-n rev 7 or higher for the setup to work (the machine boots into OS 9.2.2 fine and System profiler shows 2 x 500 CPUs with cache, but OSX installs kernal panic on booting from the OS

Re: G4 Sawtooth problem

2010-11-20 Thread Amanda Ward
On Nov 20, 2010, at 7:09 PM, Powermac wrote: I snagged a G4-400 Sawtooth in the hopes of upgrading it to a dual G4-500. Unfortunatly I didn't know you need a Uni-n rev 7 or higher for the setup to work (the machine boots into OS 9.2.2 fine and System profiler shows 2 x 500 CPUs with cache,

Re: G4 Sawtooth problem

2010-11-20 Thread Powermac
Did you mean burns DVDs in 5 minutes? 5 hours seems a little slow. I put a 22x DVD burner in my Quicksilver, it burns DVDs pretty fast. Figured a dual g4-500 would have made a nice old OSX 10.3 machine for utility work. On Nov 20, 10:31 pm, Amanda Ward amanda.w...@comcast.net wrote: On Nov 20,

Installing tiger on a new hardrive

2010-11-20 Thread BLKBOX STUDIOZ
Ok this is my deal I have a g4 dual 450 1..38 ram and the internal drive that came with it is 30 gigs I am now running tiger on it with cs2,final cut pro,livetype so it just to much for the 30 gig drive. So can I take that drive put in a 350 gig oh by the way it only notices 150 gig? anyway make