Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)?

2011-06-09 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 6/8/11 1:28 PM, John Callahan wrote: Thanks. It's fixed. It was the screen saver. Turned it of and--- voila---, works like a charm. This used to be a major problem on the Windows side of things in the 95/98 days from my own experiences. Alot of it had to do with either crappy video

Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)?

2011-06-08 Thread John Callahan
Thanks. It's fixed. It was the screen saver. Turned it of and--- voila---, works like a charm. On Jun 6, 2011, at 11:39 PM, stevo137 wrote: I had that same problem. I was told to check your memory cards. On Jun 5, 12:05 pm, John Callahan jcalla...@stny.rr.com wrote: My G4 works flawlessly

Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)?

2011-06-06 Thread Ted Treen
From: Dan dantear...@gmail.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, 5 June 2011, 19:22 Subject: Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)? At 1:05 PM -0400 6/5/2011, John Callahan wrote: My G4 works flawlessly while I am using it but if I leave it running

Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)?

2011-06-06 Thread stevo137
I had that same problem. I was told to check your memory cards. On Jun 5, 12:05 pm, John Callahan jcalla...@stny.rr.com wrote: My G4 works flawlessly while I am using it but if I leave it running   it freezes and a message comes up that says you need to restart your   computer. Anyone have any

Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)?

2011-06-05 Thread John Callahan
My G4 works flawlessly while I am using it but if I leave it running it freezes and a message comes up that says you need to restart your computer. Anyone have any idea of what's wrong? Thank you -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3,

Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)?

2011-06-05 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 5-06-2011 19:05, John Callahan ha scritto: My G4 works flawlessly while I am using it but if I leave it running it freezes Does it feel lonely...? ;-D (sorry, I couldn't resist ;-) Back to serious, you can probably find some hints in the log files (they should record the issues),

Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)?

2011-06-05 Thread Dan
At 1:05 PM -0400 6/5/2011, John Callahan wrote: My G4 works flawlessly while I am using it but if I leave it running it freezes and a message comes up that says you need to restart your computer. Anyone have any idea of what's wrong? That's a kernel panic. Check the system.log and panic log

Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)?

2011-06-05 Thread John Callahan
On Jun 5, 2011, at 1:47 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote: Il giorno 5-06-2011 19:05, John Callahan ha scritto: My G4 works flawlessly while I am using it but if I leave it running it freezes Does it feel lonely...? ;-D (sorry, I couldn't resist ;-) Log says as follows: Mac OS X Version 10.4.11

Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)?

2011-06-05 Thread Brielle Bruns
-Original Message- From: Dan dantear...@gmail.com Sender: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 14:22:27 To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Reply-To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)? At 1:05 PM -0400 6/5/2011, John Callahan wrote: My G4 works flawlessly

Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)?

2011-06-05 Thread John Callahan
That's a kernel panic. Check the system.log and panic log files to see exactly what died. Have you made any hardware changes to your system recently? Do you have any tasks that explicitly run when you're idle? - Dan. System Log says as follows: Mac OS X Version 10.4.11 (Build 85165)

Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)?

2011-06-05 Thread John Callahan
On Jun 5, 2011, at 2:22 PM, Dan wrote: At 1:05 PM -0400 6/5/2011, John Callahan wrote: My G4 works flawlessly while I am using it but if I leave it running it freezes and a message comes up that says you need to restart your computer. Anyone have any idea of what's wrong? That's a kernel

Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)?

2011-06-05 Thread John Callahan
On Jun 5, 2011, at 1:47 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote: Il giorno 5-06-2011 19:05, John Callahan ha scritto: My G4 works flawlessly while I am using it but if I leave it running it freezes Does it feel lonely...? ;-D (sorry, I couldn't resist ;-) I have disabled sleep and that seems to have

Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)?

2011-06-05 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 6/5/11 8:37 PM, John Callahan wrote: On Jun 5, 2011, at 3:18 PM, Brielle Bruns wrote: If I had to venture a guess... Turn off the screen saver and see if it stops locking up.A lot of the OSX screen savers use opengl - and if there's a problem with the graphics card, it could tickle it in

Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)?

2011-06-05 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 6-06-2011 4:37, John Callahan ha scritto: I have disabled sleep and that seems to have solved the problem. I think the video card may be going. IMHO, it's not the card. If the card would be failing, that would manifest while working, not while sleeping. It could be an incompatibility

Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)

2011-05-09 Thread Jonas Lopez
wrote: From: Sean Carroll slcarr...@me.com Subject: Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics) To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Date: Tuesday, May 3, 2011, 6:54 PM I have a Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics) with 512 MB. It is in good shape and runs faultlessly. Is it worth while to upgrade the memory to 2.0 GB

Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)

2011-05-09 Thread Bruce Johnson
On May 3, 2011, at 8:44 PM, Jonas Lopez wrote: I have one too and want to get a DVD drive (superdrive) so I can make dvd movies, what do I need? I have the 512 Mb 10.4/10.5. Do I require more memory to cut a dvd? What superdrive do you think would be good and where and cost. Any ATA DVD

Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)

2011-05-09 Thread t...@io.com
On May 9, 8:38 am, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On May 3, 2011, at 8:44 PM, Jonas Lopez wrote: I have one too and want to get a DVD drive (superdrive) so I can make dvd movies, what do I need? I have the 512 Mb 10.4/10.5. Do I require more memory to cut a dvd? What

Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)

2011-05-09 Thread JoeTaxpayer
I found the same cycle with PATA hard drives. 500MB for $75 but 2TB SATA for $80. So I picked up a SATA PCI cards for my G4 MDDs. Asking - will they drive optical drives as well? When optical PATA goes away, that may become the only option. On May 9, 3:54 pm, t...@io.com t...@io.com wrote:

Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)

2011-05-04 Thread Alexander Gomes
I agree with Joe. I'd do it. On May 3, 2011 8:12 PM, JoeTaxpayer joetaxpaye...@gmail.com wrote: I think the extra $100 (from the $75 you'd pay for memory alone) will get you the Dual 1.25GHz. 5X the power. Do it. On May 3, 8:13 pm, John Callahan jcalla...@stny.rr.com wrote: Thanks for your

Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)

2011-05-03 Thread John Callahan
I have a Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics) with 512 MB. It is in good shape and runs faultlessly. Is it worth while to upgrade the memory to 2.0 GB considering the age of the machine and it's resale value? Thank you -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group

Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)

2011-05-03 Thread Ken Daggett
On 3 May 2011, at 12:51:23 PDT, John Callahan wrote: I have a Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics) with 512 MB. It is in good shape and runs faultlessly. Is it worth while to upgrade the memory to 2.0 GB considering the age of the machine and it's resale value? Thank you What doesn't

Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)

2011-05-03 Thread JoeTaxpayer
On May 3, 3:51 pm, John Callahan jcalla...@stny.rr.com wrote: I have a Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics) with 512 MB. It is in good shape   and runs faultlessly. Is it worth while to upgrade the memory to 2.0   GB considering the age of the machine and it's resale value? Thank you This is the 350

Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)

2011-05-03 Thread John Callahan
...@stny.rr.com wrote: I have a Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics) with 512 MB. It is in good shape and runs faultlessly. Is it worth while to upgrade the memory to 2.0 GB considering the age of the machine and it's resale value? Thank you This is the 350-500MHz machine? Single core? I'd pass. Memory

Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)

2011-05-03 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 3-05-2011 21:51, John Callahan ha scritto: I have a Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics) with 512 MB. It is in good shape and runs faultlessly. Is it worth while to upgrade the memory to 2.0 GB considering the age of the machine and it's resale value? I don't think so, in market value, since

Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)

2011-05-03 Thread JoeTaxpayer
I think the extra $100 (from the $75 you'd pay for memory alone) will get you the Dual 1.25GHz. 5X the power. Do it. On May 3, 8:13 pm, John Callahan jcalla...@stny.rr.com wrote: Thanks for your response. Mactracker says the AGP will accept 2 GB of   ram and this is the 500 MHZ model and I am

Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)

2011-05-03 Thread Sean Carroll
I have a Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics) with 512 MB. It is in good shape and runs faultlessly. Is it worth while to upgrade the memory to 2.0 GB considering the age of the machine and it's resale value? Yes. Sean Carroll slcarr...@me.com Power Mac G4 AGP Sawtooth 1.0 GHz, 2 GB RAM, SATA 750