Re: APC ES-500 Yelling Right Out of the Box

2011-11-01 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 10/31/11 10:24 PM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote: Yesterday purchased a new UPS ES 500 and noticed when instructed to connect battery cables they already were. Hm. When I plug in the unit it has one steady alarm. Depending on which light it may be, if it started yelling as soon as you plugged

Re: New Member to this list

2011-11-01 Thread Bill Christensen
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 9:32 PM, AmigaDave bbh...@gmail.com wrote: Hello one and all of the G-Group. I currently have too many G3, G4 and G5 Mac computers, but I am trying to sell some of them. In case you're not aware, LEM has a separate Swap list on Google Groups too. Buy, sell, trade,

Re: APC ES-500 Yelling Right Out of the Box

2011-11-01 Thread Jesse
Was the package open already at the store? Sent from my iPhone 4 On Nov 1, 2011, at 2:12 AM, Brielle Bruns br...@2mbit.com wrote: On 10/31/11 10:24 PM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote: Yesterday purchased a new UPS ES 500 and noticed when instructed to connect battery cables they already were.

Re: New Member to this list

2011-11-01 Thread Lawrence David Eden
Welcome. Before I switched to Mac, I was an Amiga Man too. Larry Hello one and all of the G-Group. I currently have too many G3, G4 and G5 Mac computers, but I am trying to sell some of them. My interest in them is in using both MacOS (versions 9 and 10) and MorphOS on these fine old

Re: APC ES-500 Yelling Right Out of the Box

2011-11-01 Thread Anne Keller-Smith
No, because I don't use that software any more. As I recall, it never worked properly. What I do is when the power goes out, shut the computer down manually. My son's doesn't have it installed either. In all previous instances of power loss, the power would go out, the UPS's would beep,

Re: APC ES-500 Yelling Right Out of the Box

2011-11-01 Thread Anne Keller-Smith
If that's true, why don't the other two UPS's complain? On Nov 1, 2011, at 3:12 AM, Brielle Bruns wrote: On 10/31/11 10:24 PM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote: Yesterday purchased a new UPS ES 500 and noticed when instructed to connect battery cables they already were. Hm. When I plug in the unit

Re: APC ES-500 Yelling Right Out of the Box

2011-11-01 Thread Anne Keller-Smith
Probably - when I went to connect battery cables, they were already connected. On Nov 1, 2011, at 3:50 AM, Jesse wrote: Was the package open already at the store? Sent from my iPhone 4 On Nov 1, 2011, at 2:12 AM, Brielle Bruns br...@2mbit.com wrote: On 10/31/11 10:24 PM, Anne

Re: MDD IDE vs. SCSI, battle of the busses?

2011-11-01 Thread Bruce Godfrey
Bruce Godfrey wrote: I just discovered another effect of having hard drives on the ATA66 bus. The computer would not enter sleep mode before, but now that the only drives are the two on the ATA100 bus, it goes right to sleep when I click that button on the login screen. Go figure. Bruce

Optical Audio Port continuously lit up on PowerMac G5 = NO internal speaker output = NO chime

2011-11-01 Thread jfMac
Newly aquired G5 DP 2ghz with 2gb ram running Leopard, which I updated to 10.5.8. Air cooled NOT water. Mostly running quite nicely. Internal speaker not working thus NO chime or sounds. The headphones work fine. The Sound Preferences output tab lists the build-in-audio (Internal speakers) under

Re: APC ES-500 Yelling Right Out of the Box

2011-11-01 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 31, 2011, at 9:24 PM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote: Had power outage Friday and noted that while my son's Back UPS ES 750 worked fine, beeped to let him know to shut down, mine just allowed the computer to shut off. Not good! Yesterday purchased a new UPS ES 500 and noticed when

Re: Optical Audio Port continuously lit up on PowerMac G5 = NO internal speaker output = NO chime

2011-11-01 Thread JOHN CARMONNE
On Nov 1, 2011, at 7:33 AM, jfMac wrote: Newly aquired G5 DP 2ghz with 2gb ram running Leopard, which I updated to 10.5.8. Air cooled NOT water. Mostly running quite nicely. Internal speaker not working thus NO chime or sounds. The headphones work fine. If Internal speakers is selected the

Re: Optical Audio Port continuously lit up on PowerMac G5 = NO internal speaker output = NO chime

2011-11-01 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 2-11-2011 0:14, jfMac ha scritto: Can anybody else chime in here on the red light optical audio port? Always lit up? I have a G5 2.7 DP, and the red optical light is always on. But I got it used, so I don't know if this is the default. The audio output works fine, thou. Both internal

Re: Optical Audio Port continuously lit up on PowerMac G5 = NO internal speaker output = NO chime

2011-11-01 Thread Jack Countryman
On my dual 2.7 here, the only external light that's on when running is the one near the power switch. I don't see any lights around the optical drive. Which light is it that is always on for you on your dual 2.7 machines? Somewhere inside the machine? Valter Prahlad November 1, 2011 7:22

Re: Optical Audio Port continuously lit up on PowerMac G5 = NO internal speaker output = NO chime

2011-11-01 Thread Kris Tilford
On Nov 1, 2011, at 6:14 PM, jfMac wrote: Can anybody else chime in here on the red light optical audio port? Always lit up? Yes, it's always lit up red. I did bite the bullet, and reset the PMU. The reset made no difference, so no internal speaker and thus no chime on startup. Other

Re: Optical Audio Port continuously lit up on PowerMac G5 = NO internal speaker output = NO chime

2011-11-01 Thread Kris Tilford
On Nov 1, 2011, at 7:12 PM, Jack Countryman wrote: Which light is it that is always on for you on your dual 2.7 machines? Somewhere inside the machine? No. It's the optical audio port on the back. It's the 3rd port down from the top, just beneath the Airport Bluetooth antenna ports. It

Re: Optical Audio Port continuously lit up on PowerMac G5 = NO internal speaker output = NO chime

2011-11-01 Thread Jack Countryman
On the machine I have here, that's a square shaped, digital out port. There's no light on it or the similar looking port below it. But then, I don't have anything that uses those ports, so do not know if they work or not... Guess I can't be of help here. Since I built this machine from parts

Re: Optical Audio Port continuously lit up on PowerMac G5 = NO internal speaker output = NO chime

2011-11-01 Thread John Carmonne
On Nov 1, 2011, at 5:44 PM, Jack Countryman wrote: On the machine I have here, that's a square shaped, digital out port. There's no light on it or the similar looking port below it. But then, I don't have anything that uses those ports, so do not know if they work or not... Guess I

Re: New Member to this list

2011-11-01 Thread David W. Morris
Hi Bill, thanks for the reply to my questions. I have tried Carbon Copy Cloner, but with zero success. I probably did something wrong and will try it again. The hard drives that came with the Avid Meridian software and MacOS9.2.2 MacOSX10.2.6 on them are set up to boot to the desktop

Re: Optical Audio Port continuously lit up on PowerMac G5 = NO internal speaker output = NO chime

2011-11-01 Thread Chance Reecher
I can confirm the constant red light of the optical port, this is normal with ANY optical audio port, not just those on the G5. If you have any home theater or stereo equipment with optical out, it will be lit all the time too. I agree with what another poster said about there being something

Re: Optical Audio Port continuously lit up on PowerMac G5 = NO internal speaker output = NO chime

2011-11-01 Thread Alexander Gomes
The optical audio out is always one(hence the red light), the system won't turn it off because it doesn't know if you are going to plug something into it or not. If you have any other devices that have optical out, you will notice they are always on as well. -- You received this message because

Re: Optical Audio Port continuously lit up on PowerMac G5 = NO internal speaker output = NO chime

2011-11-01 Thread Kris Tilford
On Nov 1, 2011, at 7:44 PM, Jack Countryman wrote: On the machine I have here, that's a square shaped, digital out port. Yes, that's the correct port. There's no light on it or the similar looking port below it. Should be red. I don't have anything that uses those ports, so do not know if

Re: Optical Audio Port continuously lit up on PowerMac G5 = NO internal speaker output = NO chime

2011-11-01 Thread Jack Countryman
OK...mystery is at least partially solved. If you go to system preferences, choose sound, choose output, choose digital out and set the volume off the bottom of the scale, then you get the light around the output port. Presumably, if you set something for the digital input port, you might get

Re: Optical Audio Port continuously lit up on PowerMac G5 = NO internal speaker output = NO chime

2011-11-01 Thread John Carmonne
On Nov 1, 2011, at 7:33 AM, jfMac wrote: Newly aquired G5 DP 2ghz with 2gb ram running Leopard, which I updated to 10.5.8. Air cooled NOT water. Mostly running quite nicely. Internal speaker not working thus NO chime or sounds. The headphones work fine. The Sound Preferences output tab