PM G5 dual 2.7 RAM

2011-10-28 Thread John Carmonne
What's the most RAM that can be installed in a PM G5 Dual 2.7? I have 4 1GB and 4 512MB sticks at the moment and I saw some Crucial 4GB (2 x 2GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM ECC Registered DDR 400 (PC 3200) sticks. I want to know if I can install 8 of these in my Mac. John Carmonne Yorba Linda CA

date time

2011-10-28 Thread Miccon
Quicksilver 3.6 running 10.4.11. On startup date and time set to March, Wed. 4:10pm 1969. Nuisance. Can correct? Thanks MC -- 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

Re: USB 2.0 Card for MDD G4

2011-10-28 Thread Tim Martin
An option that no one has yet mentioned but one of those you get what you pay for products. 7-Port NitroAV FireWire 800/1394b USB2.0/1/1 ComboProfessional PCI Host Adapter Interface supporting 32-Bit 64-Bit Bus Systems (Mac/WIN)http://www.firewiredirect.com/product/57/ I have been using the

Re: date time (battery)

2011-10-28 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 28-10-2011 7:07, Miccon ha scritto: Quicksilver 3.6 running 10.4.11. On startup date and time set to March, Wed. 4:10pm 1969. Nuisance. Can correct? It looks like the PRam battery is dead. This battery holds the internal Parameter Ram settings, including the time/date. It's a 3.6V

Re: Good external hard drive?

2011-10-28 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 28-10-2011 4:18, Bill Connelly ha scritto: 480Mb/s not fast enough to keep up with a photo slide show? That's strange. Well, 480Mb/s THEORETICAL! ;-) THat should translate into something like 40-50 MB/s, but I've NEVER see any USB2 device going faster than 10 MB/s. (OTOH, I've seen

Re: Good external hard drive?

2011-10-28 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 27, 2011, at 12:06 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: But, I tried to use Slideshow option from Preview, and Preview crashed. I don't think USB 2 was fast enough to keep up with the show. No, that's not why Preview crashed, unless you were running the slideshow at 20 fps or so :-) -- Bruce

Re: USB Modems any good?

2011-10-28 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 27, 2011, at 3:36 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: A friend in Ghana is using it now for the first time ... talking to me with Yahoo Messenger, and maybe Skyoe. Do we need to be too concerned about usage with apps such as these? Not really video streaming, I don't think. Don't know what

Re: date time

2011-10-28 Thread Justin Porterfield
Sounds like your PRAM battery has given up the ghost. They're not too expensive, around 5 bucks or so, and super easy to replace. On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:07 AM, Miccon koyn...@gmail.com wrote: Quicksilver 3.6 running 10.4.11. On startup date and time set to March, Wed. 4:10pm 1969.

Re: PM G5 dual 2.7 RAM

2011-10-28 Thread Jeff Bequette
looks like 8gb Mactracker On Oct 27, 2011, at 7:13 PM, John Carmonne wrote: What's the most RAM that can be installed in a PM G5 Dual 2.7? I have 4 1GB and 4 512MB sticks at the moment and I saw some Crucial 4GB (2 x 2GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM ECC Registered DDR 400 (PC 3200) sticks. I want

Re: date time

2011-10-28 Thread Jeff Bequette
system prefdate time On Oct 28, 2011, at 12:07 AM, Miccon wrote: Quicksilver 3.6 running 10.4.11. On startup date and time set to March, Wed. 4:10pm 1969. Nuisance. Can correct? Thanks MC -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4,

Re: date time

2011-10-28 Thread peterhaas
Sounds like your PRAM battery has given up the ghost. They're not too expensive, around 5 bucks or so, and super easy to replace. Look for: 1/2 AA 3.6 volt lithium battery These are made by EVERY major manufacturer of batteries in the World. Most older desktop Macs used these batteries, but

Re: date time

2011-10-28 Thread peterhaas
More modern machines, and particularly PeeCees, use a CR2032, which is also a lithium battery, but is only 3.0 volts. CR2032s are available everywhere. FWIW, CR2032s (20mm dia, 3.2mm thk) have a rated open-circuit (i.e., no load) voltage of 3.6, and a rated load voltage of 3.0. The CMOS

Re: date time

2011-10-28 Thread JOHN CARMONNE
On Oct 28, 2011, at 8:25 AM, peterh...@cruzio.com wrote: Sounds like your PRAM battery has given up the ghost. They're not too expensive, around 5 bucks or so, and super easy to replace. Look for: 1/2 AA 3.6 volt lithium battery These are made by EVERY major manufacturer of batteries in

Is the PRAM battery needed?

2011-10-28 Thread Jeffrey Engle
Ok, I'd like some input here… Is the PRAM battery needed? newer macs, older macs…. please chime in:-) In my understanding, this little battery does a whole lot more than just set my time and date.. honestly if that was the case, Apple would've got rid of the thing a long time ago?? my 2 bits….

Re: 10.5.8 Update Stuck in Configuring Installation for 12 Hours

2011-10-28 Thread t...@io.com
On Oct 27, 2:12 pm, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: On Oct 26, 2011, at 11:02 AM, t...@io.com wrote: Configuring Installation I believe Configuring Installation is prior to installation, not   during, so hopefully you're ok. Leopard 10.5 normally updates after   completing most of

Re: Is the PRAM battery needed?

2011-10-28 Thread Clark Martin
On Oct 28, 2011, at 9:59 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: Ok, I'd like some input here… Is the PRAM battery needed? newer macs, older macs…. please chime in:-) In my understanding, this little battery does a whole lot more than just set my time and date.. honestly if that was the case, Apple

Re: Is the PRAM battery needed?

2011-10-28 Thread peterhaas
i've read that the batteries will be drained more, by the mobo, if the Mac is unplugged from the electrical socket. The trickle function works even though the Mac appears to be powered-off. PeeCee PSUs generally work the same way as the low-powered microprocessor which performs the

Re: date time (battery)

2011-10-28 Thread Miccon
Thanks very much for your advice. Regards, Miccon. On Oct 28, 5:16 am, Valter Prahlad valter.prah...@fastwebnet.it wrote: Il giorno 28-10-2011 7:07, Miccon ha scritto: Quicksilver 3.6  running 10.4.11. On startup date and time set to March, Wed. 4:10pm 1969. Nuisance. Can correct? It

Re: Old Machine bests New Machine?

2011-10-28 Thread JohnV
On Oct 28, 2011, at 2:47 PM, Matevž Markovič wrote: These LOGIC music projects, that play fine on the G5, cause the newer/faster/amazinger iMac dual to CHOKE... playback stops and CPU overload box shows up. Software failure? Doesn;t seem to be, LOGIC doesn;t crash, just stops playback,

Re: Old Machine bests New Machine?

2011-10-28 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 28, 2011, at 11:18 AM, JohnV wrote: Don't know how specific this might be, but any thoughts and advice is appreciated. My main audio studio system is built around LOGIC 8 running on a PPC G5 (ex video editing rig) 10.4.11 It's a rock I have a series of short pieces composed

Re: Old Machine bests New Machine?

2011-10-28 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 28, 2011, at 12:03 PM, JohnV wrote: Which iMac dual and which PowerMac G5 do you have? Model Name: iMac Model Identifier:iMac4,1 Processor Name: Intel Core Duo Processor Speed: 1.83 GHz Number Of Processors:1 Total Number Of Cores: 2 L2

Re: Old Machine bests New Machine?

2011-10-28 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 28, 2011, at 2:27 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: Model Name: iMac Model Identifier: iMac4,1 Processor Name: Intel Core Duo There's a fix for this underpowered iMac problem, it's called the iMac4,1 Firmware Tool, and it can allow you to upgrade the RAM and CPU in these older