Re: G5 thinks there are still two monitors attached, after removing one.

2013-06-23 Thread Tom
Thanks for the suggestion Bruce. Yes, I tried the power bricks from two other 23-inch monitors on the dead one, hoping to wake it up, but they failed to bring it to life. The little on light remains dark, along with the screen. This is such as (cosmetically) beautiful monitor that I

Re: G5 thinks there are still two monitors attached, after removing one.

2013-06-23 Thread James E. Therrault
On Jun 23, 2013, at 4:04 PM, Tom wrote: Thanks for the suggestion Bruce. Yes, I tried the power bricks from two other 23-inch monitors on the dead one, hoping to wake it up, but they failed to bring it to life. The little on light remains dark, along with the screen. This is such as

upgrade eMac

2013-06-23 Thread Gene Henley
Bruce, I did download the upgrade. It went in flawlessly. I saw a note that suggested upgrading Java,which I did. ( To stop Safari from dropping.) Nothing I did corrected this Safari problem. A search from another of my computers revealed that is was a problem,and Apple was dending patches.

Re: G5 thinks there are still two monitors attached, after removing one.

2013-06-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jun 23, 2013, at 2:04 PM, Tom tba...@nmia.com wrote: Thanks for the suggestion Bruce. Yes, I tried the power bricks from two other 23-inch monitors on the dead one, hoping to wake it up, but they failed to bring it to life. The little on light remains dark, along with the screen. This

Re: G5 thinks there are still two monitors attached, after removing one.

2013-06-23 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jun 23, 2013, at 4:51 PM, James E. Therrault mjrtas...@gmail.com wrote: Capacitors, (caps), are notorious for having a shortened life in solid state monitors, TVs etc. It almost seems that they were purposely under-engineered. Caps are cheap and it will be obvious upon disassembly

Re: G5 thinks there are still two monitors attached, after removing one.

2013-06-23 Thread James E. Therrault
On Jun 23, 2013, at 7:24 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jun 23, 2013, at 4:51 PM, James E. Therrault mjrtas...@gmail.com wrote: Capacitors, (caps), are notorious for having a shortened life in solid state monitors, TVs etc. It almost seems that they were purposely under-engineered. Caps

Re: upgrade eMac

2013-06-23 Thread Illirik Smirnov
Use tenfourfox for your browser under 10.3.9. It is much better than Safari on PPC systems. On Jun 23, 2013 1:55 PM, Gene Henley mhenl...@verizon.net wrote: Bruce, I did download the upgrade. It went in flawlessly. I saw a note that suggested upgrading Java,which I did. ( To stop Safari from

Re: upgrade eMac

2013-06-23 Thread Cameron Kaiser
Use tenfourfox for your browser under 10.3.9. It is much better than Safari on PPC systems. Alas, TenFourFox will not run on 10.3. The lowest OS I support is 10.4.11. 10.3 lacks the secret CoreText which the font code relies upon, and the OS libraries are not advanced enough to support the

Re: upgrade eMac

2013-06-23 Thread Eric Hall
You could always run classilla in classic mode.  From: Cameron Kaiser spec...@floodgap.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2013 10:19 PM Subject: Re: upgrade eMac Use tenfourfox for your browser under 10.3.9. It is much better than