Re: Flashing Video Card for G5?

2011-02-10 Thread faithie999
i have a sawtooth (2x agp slot). i am getting ready to buy an XFX GeForce 6200, for which there is a rom in the macelite library. before i buy it, are you aware of a better card that has a 2x/4x/8x connector that i should look for? the macelite buying guide talks about a 6800, but the PC version

Re: How to test PRAM battery?

2011-02-10 Thread John Carmonne
On Feb 2, 2011, at 2:08 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: On Feb 2, 2011, at 3:14 PM, Yersinia wrote: On 2/2/11 11:12 AM, John Carmonne wrote: I have the problem even with brand new ones mostly in PowerBooks, G3's and TiBooks. Oh, my. Does this mean that if a Mac's problem can indeed be

Re: Mac Pro Memory

2011-02-10 Thread Jay Smith
This may help? http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1002588 Sent from my iPhone On 3 Feb 2011, at 21:50, Tina K. penguir...@gmail.com wrote: Since the Mac Pro Mac Intel lists seem to be all but dead I'll ask this here. Apparently the current Mac Pro use 3 channel memory, which if

Re: Clouds for Mac's

2011-02-10 Thread John Carmonne
RAID arrays can be intimidating, but they're a nice way to aggregate storage into one pool. Depending on how you configure them, you can create just a bigger volume, or something that has some redundancy in it - for better data protection in case a mechanism fails. I think Wikipedia

Re: Clouds for Mac's

2011-02-10 Thread John Carmonne
On Feb 4, 2011, at 2:11 PM, JoeTaxpayer wrote: Exactly. If John has 10TB internal, the next step is either a series of external drives or to use another Mac as a server. My main Mac is a pro, but I have a number off MDD G4s, one of whom has no monitor, I view it over network, and use it to

Re: Power Supply

2011-02-10 Thread Joe Duran
As long as the specs are the same it's a non-issue. Just be sure that the new battery fits snugly in the holder. I just had the same experience with a new battery for my eMac. The new battery had a shorter + terminal than the old one. But it fit quite snugly so no worries! It's working

New Video Card in Use

2011-02-10 Thread Stephen Conrad
I am using the ATI Radeon Pro 9000 Wgat resolution should I set it to for best results? My monitor is an NEC MultiSync M500 -- Steve Conrad Henrietta, MO 64036 The time has come for mankind to grow up and leave its cradle behind; to go forth and claim our place in outer space.

Re: Powermac G4 mdd dual Strange noise???

2011-02-10 Thread Jay Smith
Sounds like it could be the fan powering up to high rpm and settling down to a steady speed? -- 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

Got This Error...

2011-02-10 Thread Stephen Conrad
Right before my 800 MHz G4 Quicksilver running OS X 10.4.11 shut itself off Feb 8 07:07:31 steve-cs-power-mac-g4 kernel[0]: dos2unixtime(): month value out of range (0) What causes this? My Date Time are correct -- Steve Conrad Henrietta, MO 64036 The time has come for mankind to grow up

Re: no content folder in date and time preference panel

2011-02-10 Thread theleaddog
Go to Finder:Help and type administrator privileges. On Feb 7, 2:41 pm, lphilen lphilen...@aol.com wrote: How do you access the administrator privileges? When i click system preferences under the left apple nothing happens. thank you. -- You received this message because you are a member of

What does this message mean?

2011-02-10 Thread lphilen
i found this on the console log: 1969-12-31 19:21:24.201 System Preferences[257] Unable to load nib file: MainMenu, exiting. this came up as i clicked on system preferences under the left apple. do you know what it means? i am trying to get the time and date set and i can not open it or the system

Re: no content folder in date and time preference panel

2011-02-10 Thread lphilen
With help from others, i have got my computer running great. thanks to all who offered help. larry philen murchison, tx 75778 On Feb 8, 11:52 am, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Feb 7, 2011, at 12:41 PM, lphilen wrote: How do you access the administrator privileges? When

Anyone Want To Explain?

2011-02-10 Thread Stephen Conrad
I came to use my computer and I saw it was still on. However, less than a minute later it shut itself off. I cannot see a reason in here (it happened at about 5:32 AM) Mac OS X 10.4.11 on an 800 MHz Quicksilver No USB devices hooked up except the KB and Mouse Am using the better of the 2 Video

Re: 1.8 ghz g5 tower

2011-02-10 Thread Miguel Garcia-Gell
iMovie or Roxio for Mac! are good enough. On Feb 2, 2011, at 6:19 PM, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: On Feb 2, 2011, at 3:11 PM, jason wrote: Hey everyone, sorry it took me a whole day to get back to the discussion. So, to elaborate further on the system in question, I got it on

Re: New Video Card in Use

2011-02-10 Thread Alex Barnes
The maximum res the monitor supports. On Feb 8, 2011, at 12:01 AM, Stephen Conrad wrote: I am using the ATI Radeon Pro 9000 Wgat resolution should I set it to for best results? My monitor is an NEC MultiSync M500 -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for

Re: G4 Quicksilver 2002

2011-02-10 Thread J.M.P.Hissel
On 07-02-2011 18:40, Jay, jonathan.newcas...@gmail.com, wrote: Anybody running Leopard on a G4 Quicksilver 2002 800mhz with 1.5gb ram and how is it? I have read on LEM that I will be pushing if I want decent performance and that's fair enough. Just thought I would ask for, before I put

Re: G4 Quicksilver 2002

2011-02-10 Thread peterhaas
Just 2 weeks ago I composed my QS 800/'02 as follows: HD 75 GB with 10.4.11 and 9.2.2 in the lower bay HD 75 GB with 10.5.8 in the upper bay HD 115 GB for storage in the Zip bay PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-116D 1,5 GB RAM NVIDIA GeForce2 MX with TwinView conn.to a LaCie electr22b3 ATY,Rage128

Re: Power Supply

2011-02-10 Thread gifutiger
Greetings Diane Before you trash your trusty Mac have a look at this option. 1. Purchase a Antec 430 Watt Power Supply, about $50.00 2. Purchase from Donald Hall, http://atxg4.com/ about $13.00 From what is posted it seams like about a 2-4 hour job to remove the old PS and install the new one.

Re: Power Supply

2011-02-10 Thread gifutiger
Greetings, So sorry #2. should have included Adaptor Cable which connects the Antec 430 Watt Power Supply's cable to the Mac. Cheers Harry San Jose, Ca On Feb 10, 8:46 am, gifutiger gifuti...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings Diane Before you

Re: Power Supply

2011-02-10 Thread peterhaas
1. Purchase a Antec 430 Watt Power Supply, about $50.00 2. Purchase from Donald Hall, http://atxg4.com/ about $13.00 Generic PSUs, the as the referenced Antec, have #6-32 UNC fasteners, whereas Macs have M3.5-0.6 fasteners. Either replace all PSU fasteners with #6-32 UNC fasteners of the same

Re: Anyone Want To Explain?

2011-02-10 Thread Clark Martin
On Feb 10, 2011, at 4:00 AM, Stephen Conrad wrote: I came to use my computer and I saw it was still on. However, less than a minute later it shut itself off. I cannot see a reason in here (it happened at about 5:32 AM) Mac OS X 10.4.11 on an 800 MHz Quicksilver No USB devices hooked up except

Re: Anyone Want To Explain?

2011-02-10 Thread Kris Tilford
On Feb 10, 2011, at 6:00 AM, Stephen Conrad wrote: Am using the better of the 2 Video Cards Feb 10 05:32:20 steve-cs-power-mac-g4 kernel[0]: ATY,Rage128y: Not usable You might want to remove the Rage card if you're not using it now. It can waste power, and sometimes a non-Quartz Extreme

Re: Anyone Want To Explain? + The -122 Error

2011-02-10 Thread Bruce
Clark Martin wrote: On Feb 10, 2011, at 4:00 AM, Stephen Conrad wrote: I came to use my computer and I saw it was still on. However, less than a minute later it shut itself off. I cannot see a reason in here (it happened at about 5:32 AM) Mac OS X 10.4.11 on an 800 MHz Quicksilver No USB

Re: MDD problem

2011-02-10 Thread yawg
Hi, Today I opened my MDD (1.25 GHz 2003 model) and it uses a Samsung PSU, those PSUs seem to go at once and when they go the home fuse goes also ... All fans are running, the red LED on the mainboard is lit, I get a bong, then the disks try to initialize but stop after a while. When I put a CD

Re: Anyone Want To Explain? + The -122 Error

2011-02-10 Thread Clark Martin
On Feb 10, 2011, at 10:07 AM, Bruce wrote: Clark Martin wrote: On Feb 10, 2011, at 4:00 AM, Stephen Conrad wrote: I came to use my computer and I saw it was still on. However, less than a minute later it shut itself off. I cannot see a reason in here (it happened at about 5:32 AM)

Re: MDD problem

2011-02-10 Thread Clark Martin
On Feb 10, 2011, at 10:37 AM, yawg wrote: Hi, Today I opened my MDD (1.25 GHz 2003 model) and it uses a Samsung PSU, those PSUs seem to go at once and when they go the home fuse goes also ... All fans are running, the red LED on the mainboard is lit, I get a bong, then the disks try to

Re: Powermac G4 mdd dual Strange noise???

2011-02-10 Thread Matevž Markovič
Yes, can be. It is running the einstein@home and ABC@home every day, for longer periods, so that can be the reason. If it is just that, than I am really happy. It is not the fastest computer in the universe, but I am happy to have it. Many my friends have x-core beasts, yy GB of RAM, 10MB/s

Re: MDD problem

2011-02-10 Thread Matevž Markovič
Hy! I feel sorry for your case. I know how it feels, when your beloved computer seems dead. As John pointed out, CUDA is one of your last hopes. This guy here http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=135390 had a problem with his memory - he inserted the memory backwards, thus he fried the

Re: G4 Quicksilver 2002

2011-02-10 Thread dc
On Feb 7, 12:40 pm, Jay jonathan.newcas...@gmail.com wrote: Anybody running Leopard on a G4 Quicksilver 2002 800mhz with 1.5gb ram and how is it? I have read on LEM that I will be pushing if I want decent performance and that's fair enough. Leopard will be slower than Tiger but I think you

Re: The -122 Error

2011-02-10 Thread Bruce
Clark Martin wrote: Feb 10 05:32:14 localhost kernel[0]: ApplePMU::PMU forced shutdown, cause = -122 To the OP, try doing a google search on cause = -122 (include the quotes). Hello, OK, I did a Google search on cause = -122. I found many entries, going back for years. Sometimes the

Video Card Question

2011-02-10 Thread Bruce
Hello, I have two video cards: GeForce FX5200 AGP 8X 64MB Video Memory. Radeon 9200LE PCI 128MB Video Memory. Which one would be considered to be the better of the two? What is considered more important: AGP, or more memory? Bruce -- You received this message because you are a member of

Re: The -122 Error

2011-02-10 Thread John Martz
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Bruce bsugarb...@core.com wrote: Sometimes the problem went away after things were changed. Sometimes the problem did not go away after things were changed. Sometimes the problem went away for a while after things were changed, then reoccurred again.

Re: Video Card Question

2011-02-10 Thread Alex Barnes
I'd say that the GeForce would be better at games when you play at a lower res. but the Radeon can drive bigger monitors. On Feb 10, 2011, at 2:10 PM, Bruce wrote: Hello, I have two video cards: GeForce FX5200 AGP 8X 64MB Video Memory. Radeon 9200LE PCI 128MB Video Memory. Which

Re: The -122 Error

2011-02-10 Thread Clark Martin
On Feb 10, 2011, at 1:16 PM, John Martz wrote: Conclusion: cause = -122 is a general, non-specific, error message. Comments anyone? I believe that humans are wired to try to find correlations. It's not just the way our minds may be predisposed to work, I think it is also how we feel

Re: The -122 Error

2011-02-10 Thread Clark Martin
On Feb 10, 2011, at 12:23 PM, Bruce wrote: Clark Martin wrote: Feb 10 05:32:14 localhost kernel[0]: ApplePMU::PMU forced shutdown, cause = -122 To the OP, try doing a google search on cause = -122 (include the quotes). Hello, OK, I did a Google search on cause = -122. I found

Re: Video Card Question

2011-02-10 Thread Kris Tilford
On Feb 10, 2011, at 3:10 PM, Bruce wrote: GeForce FX5200 AGP 8X 64MB Video Memory. Radeon 9200LE PCI 128MB Video Memory. Which one would be considered to be the better of the two? The AGP card has about 16x the bandwidth of the PCI card, so the AGP is the better card by far. Always use

Re: What does this message mean?

2011-02-10 Thread J.M.P.Hissel
On 08-02-2011 22:43, lphilen, lphilen...@aol.com, wrote: i found this on the console log: 1969-12-31 19:21:24.201 System Preferences[257] Unable to load nib file: MainMenu, exiting. this came up as i clicked on system preferences under the left apple. do you know what it means? i am trying

Power Mac G4 wireless success story

2011-02-10 Thread faithie999
just wanted to post a quick success story on adding wireless to my Sawtooth. based on advice from this thread http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list/browse_thread/thread/19e74c46d9466fb3 i bought a mini-pci to pci adapter on ebay for about $6 including shipping. in my parts bin i had a

Re: Power Mac G4 wireless success story

2011-02-10 Thread Kris Tilford
On Feb 10, 2011, at 6:42 PM, faithie999 wrote: i bought a mini-pci to pci adapter on ebay for about $6 including shipping. in my parts bin i had a mini-pci broadcom wireless card that i had salvaged from an old dell laptop. There are many 802.11n mini-pci Broadcom cards for cheap, and this

Power Mac G4 733mhz Digital Audio dilemma

2011-02-10 Thread Scotty
I just recently acqired a Digital Audio 733mhz for $25 (it needed ram and a HDD which I had on hand). So I have it up and running, but I am looking for advice for an OS. I have 10.2.8 installed currently. I was wondering if this very old version of OS X is really of any use anymore or whether I

Re: Power Mac G4 733mhz Digital Audio dilemma

2011-02-10 Thread Sean Carroll
I just recently acqired a Digital Audio 733mhz for $25 (it needed ram and a HDD which I had on hand). So I have it up and running, but I am looking for advice for an OS. Why not Tiger? But you already have Leopard. I would like to add that I have a copy of leopard from my Quicksilver but if

Re: Power Mac G4 733mhz Digital Audio dilemma

2011-02-10 Thread Bill Connelly
On Feb 10, 2011, at 9:43 PM, Scotty wrote: I just recently acqired a Digital Audio 733mhz for $25 (it needed ram and a HDD which I had on hand). So I have it up and running, but I am looking for advice for an OS. I have 10.2.8 installed currently. I was wondering if this very old version of

Re: Power Mac G4 733mhz Digital Audio dilemma

2011-02-10 Thread Daniel Stewart
I have no idea how to use CCC. Is it something I have to buy? On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 9:10 PM, Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.net wrote: On Feb 10, 2011, at 9:43 PM, Scotty wrote: I just recently acqired a Digital Audio 733mhz for $25 (it needed ram and a HDD which I had on hand).  So I

Re: Power Mac G4 733mhz Digital Audio dilemma

2011-02-10 Thread Bill Connelly
On Feb 10, 2011, at 10:29 PM, Daniel Stewart wrote: I have no idea how to use CCC. Is it something I have to buy? Check out: http://www.bombich.com/ -- 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

Re: Got This Error...

2011-02-10 Thread Dan
At 8:36 AM -0600 2/8/2011, Stephen Conrad wrote: Right before my 800 MHz G4 Quicksilver running OS X 10.4.11 shut itself off Feb 8 07:07:31 steve-cs-power-mac-g4 kernel[0]: dos2unixtime(): month value out of range (0) What causes this? There is no month 0. Note the routine's name -

Re: What does this message mean?

2011-02-10 Thread Dan
At 1:43 PM -0800 2/8/2011, lphilen wrote: i found this on the console log: 1969-12-31 19:21:24.201 System Preferences[257] Unable to load nib file: MainMenu, exiting. this came up as i clicked on system preferences under the left apple. do you know what it means? i am trying to get the time and

Re: Anyone Want To Explain? + The -122 Error

2011-02-10 Thread Dan
At 1:07 PM -0500 2/10/2011, Bruce wrote: According to: Mac OS System Error Codes: 0 to -261 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1618 [snip] The OP is running Mac OS X. Those error codes pertain to the classic Mac OS... Mac OS 9 and earlier. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South

Re: Anyone Want To Explain?

2011-02-10 Thread Dan
At 9:23 AM -0800 2/10/2011, Clark Martin wrote: On Feb 10, 2011, at 4:00 AM, Stephen Conrad wrote: I came to use my computer and I saw it was still on. However, less than a minute later it shut itself off. I cannot see a reason in here (it happened at about 5:32 AM) Mac OS X 10.4.11 on an 800

Re: Mac Pro Memory

2011-02-10 Thread Tina K.
On 2011/02/03 15:22, Jay Smith so eloquently wrote: This may help? http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1002588 There's the link I've been looking for, thank you! Tina -- iMac 20 USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2GB RAM GeForce FX 5200 Ultra 64MB 10.4.11 PB G4 15 HR-DLSD 1.67GHz G4 2GB RAM Radeon

Re: Anyone Want To Explain? + The -122 Error

2011-02-10 Thread Tina K.
On 2011/02/10 11:07, Bruce so eloquently wrote: So for instance if you had a folder called One, and inside that was a folder called Two, you can't move One into Two, because Two is inside One. So you'd have One inside Two, inside One, inside Two, inside One, inside Two. Somewhere