Re: G5 and 10.5.5 nightmare.

2008-12-06 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 6, 2008, at 3:52 AM, Brian Durant wrote: It seems to me at this point, since the memory tests checked out, to ask the following two questions: 1) What caused the original, massive performance hits that my system gradually started taking over a period of a week or so, and 2) Why

Re: G5 and 10.5.5 nightmare.

2008-12-06 Thread Brian Durant
Hi Kris, Thanks for your reply. I just ran Disk Utility and got the report that everything is fine on my backup disk. Having said that, I think you may be right about Time Capsule being responsible for the serious system slowdowns that I was experiencing. I also use MobileMe and MyDisk.se so

Re: Apple Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-06 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 2:23 PM, PeterH [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 5, 2008, at 7:12 AM, Dennis Myhand wrote: Perhaps zero cost for the hardware, but IBM will charge you one hundred thousand dollars PER MONTH, or more, for the software license. Even if I don't give it a line to call

Re: Apple Psystar Come To A Settlement!

2008-12-06 Thread PeterH
On Dec 6, 2008, at 7:03 AM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: Does that include glassware featuring the latest super hero movie art and a set of steak knives? Hey, just asking here! :) It includes a warranty for freedom from software defects, which is more than Micro$shaft will give you.

Re: G4 Problem Booting OS 9

2008-12-06 Thread Yersinia
Charles Davis writes, Yeah what you just said. BUT, multiple partitions will allow for multiple instances of 'blessed' OS9 systems. Opt/alt startup will show as many systems as are bootable. I.E. it doesn't just look at one partition.. Exactly -- it looks at a HD that has multiple

Re: Command-option p-r

2008-12-06 Thread Yersinia
Chuck writes, Because the PRAM-ZAP kills all saved reference to where the hardware system is to look for a 'bootable' system. The poor clueless system is then forced to use it's 'built in' default 'boot from' information. That set of 'default instructions says to find an OS9 system [it

Re: How to Manually Uninstall a Driver under 10.5.5

2008-12-06 Thread insightinmind
On Dec 1, 2008, at 5:23 PM, billycar_G3-5 wrote: I decided to clean up the loginwindow preferences since some of my issues startup at the beginning of booting up. See documents located at the Rember RAM test website: http://www.kelleycomputing.net/documents/ It suggests removing system

Re: G4 Problem Booting OS 9

2008-12-06 Thread Paul Stamsen
Previously, at 11:45 pm -0500 12/6/08, Yersinia wrote: Charles Davis writes, Yeah what you just said. BUT, multiple partitions will allow for multiple instances of 'blessed' OS9 systems. Opt/alt startup will show as many systems as are bootable. I.E. it doesn't just look at one partition..

Re: G4 Problem Booting OS 9

2008-12-06 Thread Yersinia
Paul writes, Have you tried using Conflict Catcher to set up different boot sets? I don't even have Conflict Catcher, believe it or not. :-) But I do have some good news -- I can boot my G4 in OS 9 now and it doesn't freeze! The Open Firmware trick worked. It was a little strange when it

Can't get my mac to boot

2008-12-06 Thread Elbert Boone
Pushed my computer desk against the wall and caused my power plug to short and blew out a capacitor on my mother board so that I couldn't get booted. Replaced motherboard now no boing. Fans come on, red led on motherboard, and drives spin but no go. Need helpful info and//or g4 da power supply.

Re: G5 and 10.5.5 nightmare. (solved)

2008-12-06 Thread Brian Durant
I am still unsure about the system performance hits, I'll have to check up on that. The experience has had its educational aspects. The most important, seen from my perspective, is that I have a slightly better idea of how Time Machine works. The user is apparently expected to install a new, clean

Re: Can't get my mac to boot

2008-12-06 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 6, 2008, at 12:21 PM, Elbert Boone wrote: Pushed my computer desk against the wall and caused my power plug to short and blew out a capacitor on my mother board so that I couldn't get booted. Replaced motherboard now no boing. Fans come on, red led on motherboard, and drives

Re: Can't get my mac to boot

2008-12-06 Thread Donald Hall
On Dec 6, 2008, at 1:48 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Dec 6, 2008, at 12:21 PM, Elbert Boone wrote: Pushed my computer desk against the wall and caused my power plug to short and blew out a capacitor on my mother board so that I couldn't get booted. Replaced motherboard now no boing. Fans come

upgrading advice

2008-12-06 Thread Linda
I have a powermac G4 mirrored drive doors with panther, 1.25 GHz, 768 mb of RAM, an 80 GB hard drive with a second 160GB drive for storage. I've bought more RAM and Leopard. I also have a DVR-104PB that a friend gave me. I understand this is will burn DVDs. Since my other drive is only a DVD

Fwd: need your help in posting

2008-12-06 Thread Kris Tilford
Begin forwarded message from Dana CollinsdlcatftwinATverizonDOTnet: Greetings, gang. I've asked our colleague to submit this to the group on my behalf as I have no way to contribute. My problem is that it appears that Google has glitched my membership in the G3-5 List, and I no

This is a test

2008-12-06 Thread Dana Collins
Hi gang, Kris posted a need-for-help on my behalf - doing so must have kicked my Google account's behind, as suddenly I have a Post button. I am trying it out. No need to respond to this as if it were a thread. Thanks, Dana --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this

Re: upgrading advice

2008-12-06 Thread PeterH
On Dec 6, 2008, at 12:56 PM, Linda wrote: I've bought more RAM and Leopard. I also have a DVR-104PB that a friend gave me. I understand this is will burn DVDs. Since my other drive is only a DVD player I thought it would be nice to put this one in the bay below the other.

Re: upgrading advice

2008-12-06 Thread Fabian Fang
On Dec 6, 2008, at 12:56 PM, Linda wrote: I have a powermac G4 mirrored drive doors with panther, 1.25 GHz, 768 mb of RAM, an 80 GB hard drive with a second 160GB drive for storage. I've bought more RAM and Leopard. I also have a DVR-104PB that a friend gave me. I understand this is will

Re: iWeb newbie questions

2008-12-06 Thread iWill
Downloading files is built into iweb, see here: http://willg4pb.iwebusersites.com/WillG4PB/AddFile.html Comments on the other hand aren't if you don't want to use .mac / mobile me, whatever its called these days, but you can add them using icomment:

Re: PowerMac G5 1.6 Single Processor wonky issues

2008-12-06 Thread BillBoggs
Bruce, I took your advice with an additional bit of info from a link to an Apple document about blue screen freezes and OS 10.5. I'm pleased to say things seem fine now. All the hardware checked out fine (woo-hoo!) and a fresh Archive and Install version of the OS seemed to have removed the

Re: Help Identify this Video Card

2008-12-06 Thread J.M.P.Hissel
On 06-12-2008 22:46, Dale Hoffman, [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote: I pulled this video card some time ago and forgot to make notes. It would probably have come from a G4 but I was hoping for a bit more verbage on the board. All I can read on the board is nVidia Model P66 Any specs and clues as

Single 533MHZ processor upgrade to dual??

2008-12-06 Thread jonas ulrich
I just got a Digital Audio single 533MHZ powermac for $25 on craigslist. I know that Apple made a dual processor version of this same powermac. Can i put dual 533MHZ processors in it?-Jonas --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed

Re: Help Identify this Video Card

2008-12-06 Thread Dale Hoffman
And I thought using quotes was going to help. Thanks Jo __ On Dec 6, 2008, at 6:55 PM, J.M.P.Hissel wrote: On 06-12-2008 22:46, Dale Hoffman, [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote: I pulled this video card some time ago and forgot to make notes. It would probably have come from a G4 but I was hoping

Re: Single 533MHZ processor upgrade to dual??

2008-12-06 Thread Len Gerstel
On Dec 6, 2008, at 7:52 PM, jonas ulrich wrote: I just got a Digital Audio single 533MHZ powermac for $25 on craigslist. I know that Apple made a dual processor version of this same powermac. Can i put dual 533MHZ processors in it? -Jonas Yes, the dual 533 card will plug straight in,

Problems with external firewire HD

2008-12-06 Thread joplinfan
Hi all, Bought an external drive case with firewire (Azio brand) to help transfer files between my Toshiba XP laptop and various Macs. The Maxtor 40GB HD inside it has been formatted as FAT32 via OS X 10.4's Disk Utility and has absolutely no problems working with my various G3 and G4 Macs, but

Re: Command-option p-r

2008-12-06 Thread Jason Brown
I just hold down command and option with my thumb and press the p with my pointer and r with pinky and then use my right hand to turn on my machine. :P On Dec 5, 2008, at 12:20 PM, Ken wrote: My Reply follows quote. On 03/12/2008 19:34 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: At 2:23 pm +

Re: Single 533MHZ processor upgrade to dual??

2008-12-06 Thread Doug Burton
No, MDD is a completely different setup. On Dec 6, 2008, at 8:12 PM, jonas ulrich wrote: How do you get the quicksilvers processors to work? Will and MDD processor work? -Jonas On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 5:03 PM, Len Gerstel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 6, 2008, at 7:52 PM, jonas

Re: Single 533MHZ processor upgrade to dual??

2008-12-06 Thread PeterH
On Dec 6, 2008, at 5:36 PM, Len Gerstel wrote: All you need to do is bring a 12v lead from an unused HD connector to the 4th mounting point on the QS processor card. Here is a site that talks about it. You can ignore all the scary stuff about case modding and removing an IDE connector, that

Re: Command-option p-r

2008-12-06 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 6, 2008, at 7:28 PM, Jason Brown wrote: I just hold down command and option with my thumb and press the p with my pointer and r with pinky and then use my right hand to turn on my machine. This works for full size keyboards that have Cmd Opt on both the left right side of the

Re: G4 Problem Booting OS 9

2008-12-06 Thread Charles Lenington
Yersinia wrote: Charles Davis writes, Yeah what you just said. BUT, multiple partitions will allow for multiple instances of 'blessed' OS9 systems. Opt/alt startup will show as many systems as are bootable. I.E. it doesn't just look at one partition.. Exactly -- it looks at a HD

Re: need your help in posting

2008-12-06 Thread Dana Collins
On 12/6/08 8:32 PM, Peter of [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Kris Tilford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Begin forwarded message from Dana CollinsdlcatftwinATverizonDOTnet: Greetings, gang. I've asked our colleague to submit this to the group on my behalf as

Running Leopard Install DVD Issues - HD specs?

2008-12-06 Thread Dana Collins
Greetings all, I have an upgraded Digital Audio G4 (OWC Mercury 1.5GHz CPU, 1.5 Gig RAM, Pioneer 112 SuperDrive, etc.). Regardless of hard drive, the unit refuses to boot up the retail Install DVD of Leopard. I get the initial grey screen/silver Apple with rotating gear - 30 seconds in (with

Re: List of updates to get from OS 10.4.0 to 10.4.11

2008-12-06 Thread Paul
I saw another Mac running 10.4 that had DVD player 4.6.5. I'm not sure where that came from. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular

Re: need your help in posting

2008-12-06 Thread insightinmind
On Dec 6, 2008, at 10:06 PM, Dana Collins wrote: On 12/6/08 8:32 PM, Peter of [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Kris Tilford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Begin forwarded message from Dana CollinsdlcatftwinATverizonDOTnet: Greetings, gang. I've asked our

Re: need your help in posting

2008-12-06 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 6, 2008, at 9:33 PM, insightinmind wrote: I think I'm being censored on weekends. My Posts aren't appearing on the e-mail lists ... web yes ... list no ... but mainly on weekends. There's something screwy with Google resending the individual emails. I think you'll eventually get

Re: need your help in posting

2008-12-06 Thread insightinmind
On Dec 6, 2008, at 10:47 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Dec 6, 2008, at 9:33 PM, insightinmind wrote: I think I'm being censored on weekends. My Posts aren't appearing on the e-mail lists ... web yes ... list no ... but mainly on weekends. There's something screwy with Google resending the

Re: Command-option p-r

2008-12-06 Thread Jason Brown
The Command and Option i was referring to anyway was on the left side of the space bar :P On Dec 6, 2008, at 10:28 PM, Clark Martin wrote: Kris Tilford wrote: On Dec 6, 2008, at 7:28 PM, Jason Brown wrote: I just hold down command and option with my thumb and press the p with my

Re: Command-option p-r

2008-12-06 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 6, 2008, at 7:28 PM, Jason Brown wrote: I just hold down command and option with my thumb and press the p with my pointer and r with pinky and then use my right hand to turn on my machine. Kris Tilford replied: This works for full size keyboards that have Cmd Opt on both the