Re: Sawtooth/Tiger boot problems

2011-02-20 Thread Kris Tilford
On Feb 19, 2011, at 11:29 PM, Sean Carroll wrote: There is no joy to be had from this GeForce 5200 FX graphics card. The 5200 is usually a pretty good card, it supports both Quartz Extreme Core Image. Have you checked the firmware revision in System Profiler against other versions

Re: G4 MDD ATX mods

2011-02-20 Thread Illirik Smirnov
Newegg too. The thing is that I really wouldn't dump TOO much cash into G4s, but if the kit's $30 and I owned G4s that needed them, I'd probably buy them. Good luck! Illirik Smirnov Messages are mostly sent GPG signed! Learn more about it by googling GPG. The ugly text is used to make sure it

network settings have changed-but it won't go away!

2011-02-20 Thread jason
Hey guys. I'm one of the folks who recently had problems with the g5 1.8 tower being flakey as far as the monitor not turning on goes. Turns out that yes, indeed, it was the pram battery that was dead. So I picked up a router antenna from amazons site:(http://

Re: network settings have changed-but it won't go away!

2011-02-20 Thread Andy
On 20/02/2011 12:52PM, jason yoinkma...@yahoo.com wrote: Hey guys. I'm one of the folks who recently had problems with the g5 1.8 tower being flakey as far as the monitor not turning on goes. Turns out that yes, indeed, it was the pram battery that was dead. So I picked up a router antenna from

Shut down problem Internal hard not mounting

2011-02-20 Thread nick telis
The iMac will boot SeaTools but the keyboard and mouse, even the wired ones, will not work and I can't get past the splash screen. I have viable backups of the files so I just trashed the disk, after removing the magnets. I replaced it with a WD 200 GB drive that I had laying around, and I

Re: network settings have changed-but it won't go away!

2011-02-20 Thread jason
Great- I'll try that after work to night. Thanks and stay warm. Jason On Feb 20, 7:18 am, Andy andy.the...@gmail.com wrote: On 20/02/2011 12:52PM, jason yoinkma...@yahoo.com wrote: Hey guys.  I'm one of the folks who recently had problems with the g5 1.8 tower being flakey as far as the

Re: Would you trust this ebay seller?

2011-02-20 Thread Al Poulin
On Feb 19, 2:36 pm, iJohn zjboyguard-ggro...@yahoo.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Al Poulin alfred.pou...@gmail.com wrote: If you are willing to spend $286, look here for a used Mac mini G4/1.25GHz for $199.99, plus shipping, but no disks included. The e-mail bulletin said

Re: My g5 is a snob

2011-02-20 Thread jason
Tried the above methods to no avail, so I sent them back to the vendor friday. Thanks! On Feb 12, 10:37 am, Jeff Bequette jbeque...@tconl.com wrote: yep my dual 1.8 was extremely picky and had to reset cuda before   recognition.  (also had to exchange what was first shipped since it   was not

Re: network settings have changed-but it won't go away!

2011-02-20 Thread Kris Tilford
On Feb 20, 2011, at 7:18 AM, Andy wrote: Hey guys. I'm one of the folks who recently had problems with the g5 1.8 tower being flakey as far as the monitor not turning on goes. Turns out that yes, indeed, it was the pram battery that was dead. So I picked up a router antenna from amazons

Re: network settings have changed-but it won't go away!

2011-02-20 Thread Tina K.
On 2011/02/20 06:18, Andy so eloquently wrote: Go to System Preferences Security and enable the option Require password to unlock each secure system preference. Then it will go away forever! That's an excellent solution to an annoying problem. The last time I ran into this I ended up

Re: network settings have changed-but it won't go away!

2011-02-20 Thread Andy
On 20/02/2011 18:12PM, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: I don't know if this will get rid of your dialog box or not, I suspect not perhaps. I know that the box in Security called Require password to unlock each System Preferences pane is not check by default in OS X, and will be a hassle

Re: Sawtooth/Tiger boot problems

2011-02-20 Thread Sean Carroll
The 5200 is usually a pretty good card, it supports both Quartz Extreme Core Image. Have you checked the firmware revision in System Profiler against other versions available at the MacElite ROM repository?: No, wasn't aware, and thanks much for the link. These cards are usually solid,

Re: G4 MDD ATX mods

2011-02-20 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 2/20/11 3:13 AM, Illirik Smirnov wrote: Newegg too. The thing is that I really wouldn't dump TOO much cash into G4s, but if the kit's $30 and I owned G4s that needed them, I'd probably buy them. Good luck! Illirik Smirnov Biggest problem I've come across to date is that unless I can find

Better bootloader

2011-02-20 Thread Nestamicky
Is there a better way of getting the option to select which OS to boot to, in a dual boot (OS X 10.5 and Server) than holding down the Option key at startup? Perhaps a GUI bootloader that he could select from? Any ideas... Cheers -- You received this message because you are a member of

Re: G4 MDD ATX mods

2011-02-20 Thread peterhaas
Biggest problem I've come across to date is that unless I can find someone who makes decent sized power supplies with enough wattage and still fit inside the case, your pretty much left either modifying your case to fit it, or putting the power supply outside (which is what I usually do). I

Re: network settings have changed-but it won't go away!

2011-02-20 Thread Sean Carroll
I opened the network preferences window and clicked on the ethernet as the network to use. Now it gives me the flip down window that tells me the the network applications have changed. I click on the ok button, the window flips up, and then flips down again. I remember this problem. I was too

Re: Sawtooth/Tiger boot problems

2011-02-20 Thread Sean Carroll
Here's what the Tiger 10.4.11 System Profiler had to say about the 5200 when it was installed: Graphics/Displays: GeForce FX 5200: Chipset Model:GeForce FX 5200 Type: Display Bus: AGP Slot: SLOT-A VRAM (Total): 256 MB Vendor: nVIDIA (0x10de) Device ID:0x0321

Re: Better bootloader

2011-02-20 Thread bittin
maybe this can be an option: http://refit.sourceforge.net/ i haven't used it myself but a friend of mine loves it - Original message - From: Nestamicky‎ nestami...@gmail.com To: G-Group‎ g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Better bootloader Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 09:00:17 -0700

Re: Better bootloader

2011-02-20 Thread iJohn
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Nestamicky nestami...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a better way of getting the option to select which OS to boot to, in a dual boot (OS X 10.5 and Server) than holding down the Option key at startup? Perhaps a GUI bootloader that he could select from? Not sure

Re: Better bootloader

2011-02-20 Thread Tina K.
On 2011/02/20 09:00, Nestamicky so eloquently wrote: Is there a better way of getting the option to select which OS to boot to, in a dual boot (OS X 10.5 and Server) than holding down the Option key at startup? Perhaps a GUI bootloader that he could select from? For a GUI bootloader I don't

Re: Better bootloader

2011-02-20 Thread Alex Barnes
The bootloader that comes with Linux mint is excellent. Too bad it's Intel only. On Feb 20, 2011, at 6:44 PM, Tina K. wrote: On 2011/02/20 09:00, Nestamicky so eloquently wrote: Is there a better way of getting the option to select which OS to boot to, in a dual boot (OS X 10.5 and Server)

Re: Sawtooth/Tiger boot problems

2011-02-20 Thread Sean Carroll
Comparing this excerpt from the (Unresolved kernel trap) crash report: Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies): com.apple.GeForce(4.1.8)@0x89d000 dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.7)@0x46 dependency:

Re: Sawtooth/Tiger boot problems

2011-02-20 Thread Kris Tilford
On Feb 20, 2011, at 8:18 PM, Sean Carroll wrote: With this from System ProfilerExtensions: What does System ProfilerGraphics/DisplaysnVidia GeForce FX5200 say? Specifically, Vendor Device IDs and the ROM Revision? -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group

Re: Sawtooth/Tiger boot problems

2011-02-20 Thread Sean Carroll
Another oddity with this GeForce 5200 FX. It was advertised as 128 MB, and shows up in System Profiler with 256 MB VRAM. There are two labels on the card itself. One says: FX 5200 128MB/128bit DDR The other: ZO52-CAGP 5200 128 MB AGP The nefarious underworld of video cards. Who knew they

Re: Sawtooth/Tiger boot problems

2011-02-20 Thread Sean Carroll
What does System ProfilerGraphics/DisplaysnVidia GeForce FX5200 say? Heh. That was in my previous post, but again: Graphics/Displays: GeForce FX 5200: Chipset Model:GeForce FX 5200 Type: Display Bus: AGP Slot: SLOT-A VRAM (Total): 256 MB Vendor: nVIDIA (0x10de)

Re: Sawtooth/Tiger boot problems

2011-02-20 Thread Kris Tilford
On Feb 20, 2011, at 8:54 PM, Sean Carroll wrote: Graphics/Displays: GeForce FX 5200: Chipset Model: GeForce FX 5200 Type: Display Bus: AGP Slot: SLOT-A VRAM (Total): 256 MB Vendor:nVIDIA (0x10de) Device ID: 0x0321 Revision ID: 0x00b1 ROM Revision: 2060 Another

Re: Sawtooth/Tiger boot problems

2011-02-20 Thread Sean Carroll
There are likely some issues here. This card is made by Zogis, so it's a flashed PC card for certain. As far as I can tell, all the 128MB cards were 64bit cards. It appears the 128bit cards were all 256MB. Thanks for all the good information and the offer to help, Kris. I need to mull