Re: Dead after copying files to an external firewire drive.

2013-07-19 Thread spilrules
On Saturday, July 6, 2013 9:08:18 AM UTC-7, Clark Martin wrote: On Jul 5, 2013, at 8:38 PM, spilrules wrote: I am wondering now if this is a sign of a bad motherboard? If so, any advance warnings, suggestions, etc. or should I just keep it as an attractive paperweight or bookend? I

Re: Dead after copying files to an external firewire drive.

2013-07-09 Thread spilrules
Uggh, I suspect you may be correct about a bad MB. You seem to have eliminated every other possibility..one thing you didn't mention, have you tried it without having the battery in it? Yes I did try without the battery and it did not do anything either. I will try what Clark suggested as

Dead after copying files to an external firewire drive.

2013-07-06 Thread spilrules
So I tried to post this 3 or 4 times to the G4 Books list and it never showed up. Also that list appears to be abandoned so I will try it here with hope of success in getting some more advice. Back in March I was copying some large files from my 15 G4 PB 1.67 model #A1138 to an external

Re: Dead after copying files to an external firewire drive.

2013-07-06 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jul 5, 2013, at 8:38 PM, spilrules t...@tomstock.us wrote: Here is what I noticed as I played around with things. After taking out the old DC input board and installing the new one, I plugged in the old one that was out of the system and noticed that the AC power cord would light up in

Re: Dead after copying files to an external firewire drive.

2013-07-06 Thread Clark Martin
On Jul 5, 2013, at 8:38 PM, spilrules wrote: Here is what I noticed as I played around with things. After taking out the old DC input board and installing the new one, I plugged in the old one that was out of the system and noticed that the AC power cord would light up in the orange

Re: Copying Files

2008-09-25 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 24, 2008, at 8:10 PM, Stephen Conrad wrote: Whenever I try to copy stuff from my Smurf to another HD on my network it says it cannot do it and gives an error code of -50 What does this mean and how do I correct it? How are you copying it? What OS is the 'other HD' on your network

Re: Copying Files

2008-09-25 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 25, 2008, at 3:20 PM, Stephen Conrad wrote: 10.2.8 Its running as I can see it Drag the file onto the icon for the other HD Ugh, that sux. I've only ever run into that error with samba shares, and it's because the share was messed up. FWIW it's a no brainer to try the fixgo

Re: Copying Files

2008-09-25 Thread Doug McNutt
At 15:30 -0700 9/25/08, Bruce Johnson wrote: This is what works with flaky samba shares, particularly on older macs. I've no clue whether this will work for afp shares, though. With the introduction of 10.4 Apple disabled file transfer and sharing over the older version of afp that used

Re: Copying Files

2008-09-25 Thread Stephen Conrad
10.2.8 Its running as I can see it Drag the file onto the icon for the other HD On 9/25/08, Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 24, 2008, at 8:10 PM, Stephen Conrad wrote: Whenever I try to copy stuff from my Smurf to another HD on my network it says it cannot do it and gives an