Re: Power Mac G4 wireless success story

2011-02-11 Thread skinnie
SOmedays ago I did a Powerpc FAQon macrumors,where I talk about some solutions for wifi,if anyone interested here is the link: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1091765 I use the COnceptronics C300Ri V3 card,it is a 300Mbps N Wifi card with ralink Rt3060 chip,and it is working with the

Re: Power Mac G4 733mhz Digital Audio dilemma

2011-02-11 Thread Geke
1. I’d say go for Tiger or newer. Lots of software require Tiger or newer, and Tiger is faster than Jaguar or Panther. 2. Leopard or Tiger? Speed depends on which programs you use and is subjective anyway, so it’s hard to say if you’d be satisfied with Leopard’s speed. This may not be legal, but

Re: no content folder in date and time preference panel

2011-02-11 Thread Geke
lphilen wrote: With help from others, i have got my computer running great. thanks to all who offered help. Hey, the list likes to get some feedback please... What was the culprit? Was it that you didn’t have the password installed by the previous user? And did you manage to reset it? Or, did

Re: Powermac G4 mdd dual Strange noise???

2011-02-11 Thread Matevž Markovič
Thank you, Tina, will sure do. -- 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 http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at

Re: How to test PRAM battery?

2011-02-11 Thread Geke
Yersinia wrote: Does this mean that if a Mac's problem can indeed be traced to a malfunctioning (for whatever reason) PRAM battery and you buy a new one that tests good (with a voltmeter) and THAT doesn't fix it you might as well give up on that Mac and use or sell it for parts? In principle,

Re: Powermac G4 mdd dual Strange noise???

2011-02-11 Thread Miguel Garcia Gell
I'm late sorry! this is the eBay seller baltimora2000. Was a good deal but I send 3 broken PSU to him... Advise: Keep your MDD free of dust! use a vacuum cleaner with small attachment and clean the front vents (four holes in the front) and also the hidden under this four holes...every fan inside

Re: Power Mac G4 wireless success story

2011-02-11 Thread peterhaas
SOmedays ago I did a Powerpc FAQon macrumors,where I talk about some solutions for wifi,if anyone interested here is the link: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1091765 I use the COnceptronics C300Ri V3 card,it is a 300Mbps N Wifi card with ralink Rt3060 chip,and it is working

Re: Powermac G4 mdd dual Strange noise???

2011-02-11 Thread Matevž Markovič
Hy! Thanks for advice. I will raise my Powermac as high as possible. When I will complete my numbers crunch for today, I will inspect it for dust and also clean it. Have a nice day! Matevž -- You received this message because you

Re: Powermac G4 mdd dual Strange noise???

2011-02-11 Thread Baha Ata
i always put on the desktop even crazy sound it produce... otherwise it gets higher hot. On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Matevž Markovič ivwcorporation.mat...@gmail.com wrote: Hy! Thanks for advice. I will raise my Powermac as high as possible. When I will complete my numbers crunch for

Re: G4 Quicksilver 2002

2011-02-11 Thread Dan
At 5:01 PM +0100 2/10/2011, J.M.P.Hissel wrote: 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

Re: Power Mac G4 733mhz Digital Audio dilemma

2011-02-11 Thread Dan
At 9:03 PM -0600 2/10/2011, Sean Carroll wrote: Doesn't Leopard require a minimum 867 MHz CPU? Leopard's *installer* does the speed check. ppc Leopard itself will run on any G4/G5. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are

Re: Power Mac G4 733mhz Digital Audio dilemma

2011-02-11 Thread Dan
At 10:10 PM -0500 2/10/2011, Bill Connelly 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 have it up and running, but I am looking for advice for an OS. I have 10.2.8 installed

Re: New Video Card in Use

2011-02-11 Thread Bruce Johnson
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 That's a CRT monitor, right? Use whatever resolution suits you. LCD monitors have 'native' resolutions that they

Re: G4 Quicksilver 2002

2011-02-11 Thread Kevin Barth
I have both Leopard and Tiger on my dual-800 QS with 1.5gb ram. Leopard takes longer to startup, but once it has done so, I have no problems with its performance. I don't have a single-processor model to compare it to, though. On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Jay jonathan.newcas...@gmail.com

Re: The -122 Error

2011-02-11 Thread Al Poulin
On Feb 10, 4:16 pm, John Martz zjo...@yahoo.com wrote: 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 about the way the world should work. When we have an effect we look for a cause not

Re: MDD problem

2011-02-11 Thread yawg
Hi, I removed all cards, put the video card back in, removed all RAM, put one RAM stick back in, removed all ATA cables exept for my startup disk, removed the battery, pushed the CUDA a couple of times for 20 seconds, pushed the power button for 20 seconds, let the thing sit for half an hour or

Re: The -122 Error

2011-02-11 Thread peterhaas
Here is an opposite take on claiming fixes. In the mid-1970s, I became involved in a system that had just come online with what was already an antiquated architecture: CDC 6400 computers running SDC's TDMS for the database, with dumb terminals and other peripherals wired to controllers, in

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

2011-02-11 Thread Clark Martin
On Feb 10, 2011, at 11:48 PM, Tina K. wrote: 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,

strange behavior

2011-02-11 Thread Lawrence David Eden
I have a dual 500 Mhz Snakebite that is running 10.4.11. I am noticing some unusual behavior recently with my ZIP drive: When I try to eject the ZIP disk, I am told that the ZIP can't be ejected because it is in useeven though it is not. In order to eject the disk, I have to give the

Re: strange behavior

2011-02-11 Thread Alex Barnes
The first try unmounts the ZIP disk the second try ejects it? What it means when it says it is in use is that it is mounted. On Feb 11, 2011, at 11:51 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote: I have a dual 500 Mhz Snakebite that is running 10.4.11. I am noticing some unusual behavior recently with my

Re: MDD problem

2011-02-11 Thread Richard Smallwood
Jörg, You didn't kill anything, you isolated the problem so that it strongly indicates that you have a bad Power Supply. On 11 Feb 2011, at 11:55 AM, yawg wrote: I removed all cards, put the video card back in, removed all RAM, put one RAM stick back in, removed all ATA cables exept for my

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

2011-02-11 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 10, 2011, at 11:07 AM, Bruce wrote: Hello, According to: Mac OS System Error Codes: 0 to -261 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1618 HFS Errors -- -122 badMovErr Move into offspring error Note this is an ApplePMU error code not an OS X general error code.

Re: Clouds for Mac's

2011-02-11 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 4, 2011, at 11:34 AM, John Carmonne wrote: Do I need a card to set up a raid array? and if say I made 2 6TB drives can I CCC one to the other instaed of the mirror type? Yes and no. You can create a 'soft' RAID with Apple's Disk Utility; it supports RAID 1 and 2 only IIRC. For

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

2011-02-11 Thread Bruce
Bruce Johnson wrote: On Feb 10, 2011, at 11:07 AM, Bruce wrote: Hello, According to: Mac OS System Error Codes: 0 to -261 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1618 HFS Errors -- -122badMovErr Move into offspring error Note this is an ApplePMU error code not an OS X general

Re: MDD problem

2011-02-11 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 11, 2011, at 10:55 AM, yawg wrote: Hi, I removed all cards, put the video card back in, removed all RAM, put one RAM stick back in, removed all ATA cables exept for my startup disk, removed the battery, pushed the CUDA a couple of times for 20 seconds, pushed the power button for

Re: Power Mac G4 733mhz Digital Audio dilemma

2011-02-11 Thread daniel . stewart743
For CCC can I use it by popping the HDD from the DA into the quicksilver and does it matter that the drives are different sizes. Sent on the TELUS Mobility network with BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.net Sender: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Date:

problems with AGP video in sawtooth

2011-02-11 Thread faithie999
i have been experimenting with a sawtooth i picked up a few weeks ago. i have flashed several AGP video cards (all nVidia) i have in my parts bin. what i find is that it usually takes several (2-4) attempts to boot properly. the behavior of the monitor in a normal boot sequence is: gray apple

Re: MDD problem

2011-02-11 Thread J.M.P.Hissel
On 11-02-2011 18:55, yawg, yaw...@gmail.com, wrote: , pushed the CUDA a couple of times for 20 seconds, NEVER push the CUDA more than ONE time for a few (± 6) seconds before a restart!! Simply seen all the manuals and/or doc.'s I know. Pushing more than once can destroy the whole CUDA-system!

Re: no content folder in date and time preference panel

2011-02-11 Thread lphilen
it was missing the date and time preference panel and through help from Kris Tilford, i was able to reinstall it. everything works fine now. i had to install folders and repair permissions. On Feb 11, 6:32 am, Geke gevangaste...@googlemail.com wrote: lphilen wrote: With help from others, i

Re: MDD problem

2011-02-11 Thread theleaddog
On Feb 11, 3:54 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Feb 11, 2011, at 10:55 AM, yawg wrote: I removed all cards, put the video card back in, removed all RAM, put one RAM stick back in, removed all ATA cables exept for my startup disk, removed the battery, pushed the CUDA

Re: Power Mac G4 733mhz Digital Audio dilemma

2011-02-11 Thread Dan
At 9:57 PM + 2/11/2011, daniel.stewart...@gmail.com wrote: For CCC can I use it by popping the HDD from the DA into the quicksilver That would work, if you don't have a firewire cable. and does it matter that the drives are different sizes. As long as the destination drive is big

Re: problems with AGP video in sawtooth

2011-02-11 Thread Dan
At 2:49 PM -0800 2/11/2011, faithie999 wrote: i have been experimenting with a sawtooth i picked up a few weeks ago. i have flashed several AGP video cards (all nVidia) i have in my parts bin. what i find is that it usually takes several (2-4) attempts to boot properly. Have you been

Re: MDD problem

2011-02-11 Thread Dan
At 12:41 AM +0100 2/12/2011, J.M.P.Hissel wrote: On 11-02-2011 18:55, yawg, yaw...@gmail.com, wrote: , pushed the CUDA a couple of times for 20 seconds, NEVER push the CUDA more than ONE time for a few (± 6) seconds before a restart!! Simply seen all the manuals and/or doc.'s I know. Pushing

Re: Power Mac G4 733mhz Digital Audio dilemma

2011-02-11 Thread Sean Carroll
Doesn't Leopard require a minimum 867 MHz CPU? Leopard's *installer* does the speed check. ppc Leopard itself will run on any G4/G5. Thanks for clearing up that confusion on my part. Sean -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4,

Re: MDD problem

2011-02-11 Thread Baha Ata
infact you may finish battery but i did not get any bad things other than it by pressing twice times to CUDA. Relax. It is not CUDA. It might be CPU or PSU for my 2 cents.. I got same situation once i changed PSU and it not fixed... It was cpu... Once i changed CPU but it was PSU. I was lucky

Re: MDD problem

2011-02-11 Thread Baha Ata
it is... sometimes... you may look 3 yellow capacitors on the board... i wish to have pictures... those are rectangle plactic cover yellow collored... not big, nor small... on the mainboard... look them. any burned out... generally first they burned out. on mainboard... look red light.. generally

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

2011-02-11 Thread Sean Carroll
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 Schrodinger's cat is crying. And it is not

My g5 is a snob

2011-02-11 Thread jason
Hey all. Today got some additional memory for the above system but the g5 1.8 ghz tower(pci-x) refuses to recognize them. I currently have two 512 sticks that work fine, but the two new 1 gb sticks don't show. The packing slip identifies them as PC3200 1gb DDR SDRAM 400mhz 184 pin memory, and

Is it memory or software?

2011-02-11 Thread Opinioneditor
I've had a few Adobe programs start crashing on my eMac after a couple years of normal use. The crash report says Read Only Memory Exception and Instruction=82b7 I've reinstalled the software, nuked preference files, nuked the font caches, checked disk permissions, ran Apple Hardware Test for

Re: My g5 is a snob

2011-02-11 Thread Kris Tilford
My G5 which is a dual 2.3 using PC3200 is VERY picky about how the RAM is seated. I reseated my sticks something like 26 times before I got all 8 slots recognized and working simultaneously. Once they all were recognized, I've never had another problem. I think it helps if you press the CUDA