Re: In the Market for a G5, maybe ...

2012-12-17 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Dec 17, 2012, at 6:28 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: What about the cooling systems ... didn't some of them have problems with the liquid cooling idea? I have a number of PCI cards that are still good ... what ideas do you have here? I may just wait for a QS Dual 1GHz cpu to appear, and

Re: g4 mdd getting louder?

2012-03-20 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Mar 20, 2012, at 2:32 PM, rumble wrote: it seems to me that my old g4 mdd fan noise has gotten louder. is there anything i can do to get it to quiet down again? thanks I have been able to peel back the sticker in the center of the hub very carefully and a little drop of olive oil

Re: Carbon Copy got strange?

2012-03-19 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Mar 18, 2012, at 8:07 PM, Dan wrote: At 10:45 AM -0700 3/18/2012, JohnCarmonne wrote: I have a drive with a 39Gig 10.5.8 system and when I make a CCC of it on another drive it produces a 22.3 Gig file I've done it several times and I get the same results. I have the entire source drive

Re: How to make external drive bootable

2012-03-18 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Mar 18, 2012, at 9:26 AM, Dan A wrote: Hello all... I have an external disk for backup which I've been using for some time, both for TM and CCC backups. It is connected to my 17 G4 1.33 GHz Powerbook using FW. I see that it is not bootable. Disk Utility shows that it has a GUID Partition

Carbon Copy got strange?

2012-03-18 Thread JohnCarmonne
I have a drive with a 39Gig 10.5.8 system and when I make a CCC of it on another drive it produces a 22.3 Gig file I've done it several times and I get the same results. I have the entire source drive selected. I'm using version 3.4.3 with maintain a bootable copy no archive. I never noticed

Re: How to make external drive bootable

2012-03-18 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Mar 18, 2012, at 6:50 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Mar 18, 2012, at 11:36 AM, Chance Reecher wrote: If I recall correctly, PPC macs can only boot from GUID drives if they have 10.5 or later on them. If you have 10.4 you're out of luck and need to reformat the drive as Apple Partition

Re: PowerMac G5 One Beep Before Chime

2012-03-17 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Mar 16, 2012, at 3:40 PM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: Hi all, I'm working on a Dual 2.3GHZ PowerMac G5. I put in eight matched 512MB ram chips, a new hard drive, a new optical drive, and have run the Apple Service Diagnostic over 20 times, and it passed them all. Now, I just started it up, it

Re: PM G5: When booting the DVD drive opens up

2012-03-17 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Mar 17, 2012, at 3:22 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote: Hi all! My PM G5 2.7 DP goes generally fine, but it has some quirks now and then. This one is quite odd: once in a while (let's say once every one or two weeks), when switching the G5 on the DVD drive opens up. This happens just a

Re: G4 USB external hd will not start up 10.5

2012-03-16 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Mar 15, 2012, at 6:44 PM, Jonas Lopez wrote: NOT WHAT DU SAID! I CAN NOT DUPLICATE THIS USING: Portable: Capacity:465.76 GB Removable Media:Yes Detachable Drive:Yes BSD Name:disk2 Version:1.30 Bus Power (mA):500 Speed:Up to 12 Mb/sec

Re: G4 USB external hd will not start up 10.5

2012-03-14 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Mar 14, 2012, at 2:39 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Mar 13, 2012, at 8:16 PM, Jonas Lopez wrote: G4 USB external hd will not start up 10.5 Yes, this is true. Only a very few of the USB 1.1 Macs can boot from USB, only the colored iMacs iBooks, and none of the G4's can boot from USB

Re: G4 USB external hd will not start up 10.5

2012-03-14 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Mar 14, 2012, at 12:37 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Mar 14, 2012, at 12:07 PM, JohnCarmonne wrote: PPC will not boot a GUID HDD AFAIK. You're correct, the partition map needs to be Apple Partition Map which CAN boot both Intel PPC Macs. If a G4 will boot a self-powered USB drive

Re: MDD Boot Problem

2012-03-11 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Mar 11, 2012, at 12:34 PM, glen wrote: Spec's: 2003 MDD dual G4 -1.25 Mhz 2 MB RAM ATI 9000 Pro Boot ROM 4.4.8f2 This MDD was newly acquired without a HD. I installed a a spare Western Digital (WDC W0800BB) 80 GB drive with OS 10.4.11 for testing purposes -- no problems with that

Re: HD problem on my PowerMac G3

2012-03-09 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Mar 8, 2012, at 10:00 PM, W.Adrian D'Alessio wrote: Are the USB drivers installed. ? ( If a USB keyboard it being used ) On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:33 PM, Valter Prahlad valter.prah...@fastwebnet.it wrote: Il giorno 6-03-2012 5:48, Eleni ha scritto: I tried to boot up with

Re: Buying a G5

2012-02-18 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Feb 17, 2012, at 8:16 PM, Joshua Lewis wrote: The second hand Mac pros are way better than the G5. The Mac pros have better reliability They run cooler and quieter than the Powermac G5. They have Intel processors which mean it can run the latest mac os x and latest programs and

Re: Upgrade question

2011-12-01 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Nov 30, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Martin N wrote: Lo, At 02:15 30/11/2011, you wrote: In a message dated 11/29/11 7:21:07 PM, marti...@bluebottle.com writes: Do you know how reliable the water cooled g5s are? I seem to remember it being mentioned that the cooling system was not very well

Re: Problem G5, can;t print

2011-12-01 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Nov 30, 2011, at 4:11 PM, JohnV wrote: 2005 G5 PPC just reinstalled 10.4.11 and still have to boot in SAFE mode. Sysem can't see any audio devices, but it's working for most things. With this in mind, anyone know why having installed HP drivers for a C3100 printer, that the system

Re: Strange fan issue with G5 + Leopard

2011-12-01 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Dec 1, 2011, at 12:41 PM, Mac User #330250 wrote: Hello! I've a strange issue when I use my Power Mac G5 (original PowerMac7,2 from 2003, Dual 2.0 GHz): http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g5/stats/powermac_g5_2.0_dp.html When I use Mac OS X 10.3.9 on it, everything is

Re: External hard drive vs. online back up sites

2011-11-28 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Nov 28, 2011, at 2:06 AM, Jennings Campbell wrote: I find it amazing, considering this is a Mac oriented group that no one mentioned LaCie drives. I have found them to be robust but a bit pricier. Just one person's experience is limited data, but I felt the omission to be glaring.

Re: External hard drive vs. online back up sites

2011-11-28 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Nov 28, 2011, at 1:19 PM, diane wrote: On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 5:06 AM -0500 11/28/2011, Jennings Campbell wrote: I find it amazing, considering this is a Mac oriented group that no one mentioned LaCie drives. I have found them to be

Re: External hard drive vs. online back up sites

2011-11-28 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Nov 28, 2011, at 7:22 PM, David W. Morris wrote: That is when I did some research and found that Western Digital's Passport external drives come in two flavors, one for Windows and one for MacOSX. Does anyone here know how to get my Passport drive to be usable with my G4 PowerBook?

Re: Old PPC mac turns into an ethernet storage device.

2011-11-27 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Nov 27, 2011, at 9:19 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: Is there a way to use an old G5 power mac as an ethernet disk? just like you would use an ethernet attached hard drive? no monitor, keyboard or mouse.. I know I have to have an OS on it, but other than that, nothing it needs to be

Re: What went wrong?

2011-11-27 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Nov 27, 2011, at 2:41 PM, DLC wrote: Hi John, Am chiming in after a bit of time for the holidays. Well, no luck; rebuilt permissions, swapped out slot, re-seated the card itself AND the host card as well. The make is probably some 3rd-party manufacturer that makes cards for everyone (it

Re: What went wrong?

2011-11-27 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Nov 27, 2011, at 2:46 PM, DLC wrote: Greetings all, Just chiming in after the holidays to bring this up to date. My thanks to Kris for the information re: the hacked driver, and for Peter and John chiming in with salient info. Alas, nothing appears to help, and I am faced with the

Re: What went wrong?

2011-11-27 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Nov 27, 2011, at 2:46 PM, DLC wrote: Greetings all, Just chiming in after the holidays to bring this up to date. My thanks to Kris for the information re: the hacked driver, and for Peter and John chiming in with salient info. Alas, nothing appears to help, and I am faced with the

Re: What went wrong?

2011-11-27 Thread JohnCarmonne
rather than resort to a USB dongle (of which I also saw a bunch of them, too). Dana On Nov 27, 7:23 pm, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: On Nov 27, 2011, at 5:10 PM, JohnCarmonne wrote: I think this is the card you need or the after market copy of it. http://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-G4-G5

Re: Upgrade question

2011-11-27 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Nov 27, 2011, at 8:19 PM, Fabian Fang wrote: On Nov 27, 2011, at 7:14 PM, Skyler Rudd wrote: I have a 2002 Quicksilver that I would like to upgrade so I can use Photoshop CS4. I have found an Apple MPU 1.25 GHz Dual Processor, but I can't seem to find out if it will do the job. Any

Re: External hard drive vs. online back up sites

2011-11-27 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Nov 27, 2011, at 7:25 PM, janespra...@comcast.net wrote: I was watching Black Friday ads for an external 2tb drive for back ups. Offcie Max had a Seagate GoFlex 2tb for $75. But I was too late to get one. Then I started researching the Seagates online for prices. In my search, I came

Re: What went wrong?

2011-11-23 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Nov 22, 2011, at 7:27 PM, DLC wrote: Hi John, Thanks for sharing - I do not get any recognition like that :-( -Dana Did you repair permissions. Can you give the make and model of the card? Also you may try a different slot. I did have to do that as I remember:-) John Carmonne Yorba

Re: What went wrong?

2011-11-22 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Nov 22, 2011, at 6:52 PM, DLC wrote: Greetings, all. Okay, a while ago I received great advice from some colleagues here regarding wireless cards and a G5 with a PCI-E slot compatibility. After doing some homework, I purchased one of those mini PCI_E adapters and then a PCI-E wireless

Re: Weather Widget fix 10.5.8

2011-11-16 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Nov 16, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Nov 16, 2011, at 12:08 PM, David W. Morris wrote: Can you explain exact step by step for number 4 below? Also, must step 2 be compressed to move it to the desktop? No it doesn't. But it is handy to keep it all together in case

Re: eSATA speed G5

2011-11-15 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Nov 15, 2011, at 11:44 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Nov 15, 2011, at 12:52 PM, JOHN CARMONNE wrote: I'd like to know why my eSATA card on my PM G5 dual 2.7 transfers files no faster than my F/W400 or F/W 800. Can it be the enclosure? I get the same results on my Mac Pro. It's the

Drive Genius 2.2 touchy?

2011-11-15 Thread JohnCarmonne
I have a Drive Genius 2.2 disk and it installs on all my machines from G4 Cube to Mac Pro and it will boot all of them but if I try to boot it on My G5 dual 2.7 It does a Kernel Panic internal optical or external. However I can install it on the machine and run it normal. Why does the G5 do

Re: Which G5 or older Mac

2011-11-13 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Nov 13, 2011, at 10:38 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Nov 13, 2011, at 9:59 AM, Bill Connelly wrote: Does Rosetta work well, so that if I went Intel, I could still run all my PPC apps? I know very little about the Rosetta idea. The Dual 2.3 GHz G5 sounds like the upper limit for PPC.

Re: hacking for a slimmer world

2011-11-11 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Nov 10, 2011, at 11:09 PM, Jesse St.John wrote: alright everyone i am using leopard 10.5.8 on a dp 1.25mhz mdd with 2 gigs of ram, any tweaks that you would suggest, any ways to go about kernel hacking and trimming my system? i cant really afford a g5 at the moment, and i dig the ppc

Key command close all windows

2011-11-10 Thread JohnCarmonne
I there a key command that will close all windows on 10.5 on a G5 PPC? Short of a restart? John Carmonne Yorba Linda CA 92886 USA MacPro 2.66 Quad Nehalem -- 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

Re: Quicksilver processor upgrade easier than expected

2011-11-08 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Nov 8, 2011, at 1:02 PM, Mac User #330250 wrote: -- Original message -- Subject: Re: Quicksilver processor upgrade easier than expected Date:Tuesday, 08. November 2011 From:Valter Prahlad valter.prah...@fastwebnet.it To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Il

Video card upgrade?

2011-11-06 Thread JohnCarmonne
I have a G5 Dual 2.7 6GB that I recently swapped out the ATI Radeon 9650 with a Radeon 9800 Pro complete with a large copper colored fan sporting blue lights that can be seen through the cheese grater holes in the case:-) My question is what increased video experience should I expect? I'm not a

Re: Can I CCC a 10.4 from a G4 DA to a G5?

2011-11-05 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Nov 4, 2011, at 9:54 PM, David W. Morris wrote: You may laugh about putting a diaper around the cpu's, but the top of the G5 PSU actually comes with exactly that fixed to it on the liquid cooled models. When I asked you to check for corrosion and possible leaks, I should have told you

Re: Can I CCC a 10.4 from a G4 DA to a G5?

2011-11-04 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Nov 4, 2011, at 4:21 PM, Jim Scott wrote: On Nov 4, 2011, at 4:08 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote: Il giorno 4-11-2011 21:57, David W. Morris ha scritto: Anyway, back to the point of my message. I suggest you check any liquid cooled G5 Mac computer for leaks and corrosion, before you have

Re: Can I CCC a 10.4 from a G4 DA to a G5?

2011-11-04 Thread JohnCarmonne
On Nov 4, 2011, at 1:57 PM, David W. Morris wrote: . For some reason, only one of the two 2.5GHz G5 CPU's is being shown as working in the About this Mac menu item. When I swap the G5's from one side to the other, it is always the same side that is not working, so both of the G5 CPU's