Re: I was just given a G4 733 tower

2008-09-28 Thread Charles Davis
On Sep 27, 2008, at 4:15 AM, CCorsair wrote: > > Thanks this all good info.. question.. If i move to 10.5 will i be > able to run the older video editing software? > the person tha gave me the system said he want to make sure we keep > that part going.(even in the old OS as is it is much easier

M-Audio Revolution 7.1 PCI

2008-09-28 Thread Eric Volker
Does anyone have any experience with this card? It worked great in my old Quicksilver, but I'm having a lot of trouble with it on my Powermac G5. At first I loaded Leopard on that machine, but I got squeals and clicks out of it, and sometimes the audio would get completely garbled. Apparen

Re: M-Audio Revolution 7.1 PCI

2008-09-28 Thread Dana Collins
On 9/28/08 10:05 PM, Eric Volker of [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent > > Does anyone have any experience with this card? It worked great in my > old Quicksilver, but I'm having a lot of trouble with it on my > Powermac G5. At first I loaded Leopard on that machine, but I got > squeals and clicks out of it

Re: RAMDAC Video Card

2008-09-28 Thread PeterH
On Sep 28, 2008, at 2:22 PM, diane wrote: > I have a Ramdac 100 video card in my stash. I can't find much info on > it but what I did find says PM 7100 or Quadra. This would be a nubus > card then, correct? It visually looks PCI to me but without a PCI > card to compare it too, I could easily be

RAMDAC Video Card

2008-09-28 Thread diane
I have a Ramdac 100 video card in my stash. I can't find much info on it but what I did find says PM 7100 or Quadra. This would be a nubus card then, correct? It visually looks PCI to me but without a PCI card to compare it too, I could easily be wrong. It also says BT9055 on it. It has the o

Re: Replacing 8500/9500 with which G4?

2008-09-28 Thread Doug McNutt
At 06:41 -0400 9/28/08, insightinmind wrote: >I need to let go of my 8500 and 9500 ... and replace them with an >early model PowerMac G4 ... > The 8500 I'm writing this on remains my favorite Mac. The Sawtooth G4 to my right and my SE/30 file server to the left almost finish out the Mac.s but

Address Book and iCal stuff AWOL after upgrade to Leopard.

2008-09-28 Thread Brian Durant
I just upgraded from Tiger to Leopard using "upgrade and install". Unfortunately, I had to move the bits and pieces I needed by hand from my "previous system" folder to my current system by hand. Despite having copied the relevant folders, my contacts and iCal events do not appear. Any suggestions

Re: Mail Under 10.5.5 Fooling Me ...

2008-09-28 Thread insightinmind
On Sep 28, 2008, at 8:19 AM, insightinmind wrote: > > > On Sep 28, 2008, at 7:47 AM, Peter wrote: > >> In your SMTP setup, did you check if the username/password >> authorization is enabled correct? > > Yes ... Username and Password ... re-entered several times in the QS > Mail > Preferences and

Re: No Digest Last Night

2008-09-28 Thread G3-G5,LEM,PowerPCs
On Sep 28, 2008, at 12:15 PM, Al Poulin wrote: > > I see lots of new traffic on the group's web site, but where is the > digest? I received the g-books, but not the g3-5-list. > > Al Poulin My response has been slow ... to messages I send out. Not Digest, but individual messages. --~--~---

No Digest Last Night

2008-09-28 Thread Al Poulin
I see lots of new traffic on the group's web site, but where is the digest? I received the g-books, but not the g3-5-list. Al Poulin --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3,

Re: I was just given a G4 733 tower

2008-09-28 Thread Al
The G4/733 has 256 MB RAM. CCorsair wants to upgrade the RAM and has updated from OS 9.1.1 to 9.2.2. It is not clear whether CCorsair upgraded this Mac to OS X or is talking about someone else's machines. CCorsair: Have you upgraded your machine to OS X? If not, and you want to make the move

Re: Replacing 8500/9500 with which G4?

2008-09-28 Thread billycarmacs
On Sep 28, 2008, at 8:57 AM, diane wrote: > We have a second hand shop that buys old machines, and they are > selling G4 533 DP's ... One of my "Things" is that I like Recycling ... using an older Mac is one of those Resourcing areas ... let me know how to contact them, please. Although,

Re: MDD startup problem and solution, and a question.

2008-09-28 Thread Aaron
>From: Kris Tilford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 04:30:49 -0500 > >On Sep 28, 2008, at 4:11 AM, Aaron wrote: > >> Thanks to Dan, moss and Simon Royal for their responses. >> >> I did finally manage to test my PRAM battery and it's quite strong >> -- about 4V according to my meter,

Re: Replacing 8500/9500 with which G4?

2008-09-28 Thread diane
I have a Yikes! that I have located in my part time job. It has been a flaky machine its whole life, and was my only Mac to have a logic board failure. We have a second hand shop that buys old machines, and they are selling G4 533 DP's for about $50. If you can swing that I would get as high

Re: Mail Under 10.5.5 Fooling Me ...

2008-09-28 Thread insightinmind
On Sep 28, 2008, at 7:47 AM, Peter wrote: > In your SMTP setup, did you check if the username/password > authorization is enabled correct? Yes ... Username and Password ... re-entered several times in the QS Mail > Preferences and Server inputs. (I'm responding on my Tiger-ized PowerPC 8500

Re: Replacing 8500/9500 with which G4?

2008-09-28 Thread Amanda Ward
On Sep 28, 2008, at 3:41 , insightinmind wrote: > > I need to let go of my 8500 and 9500 ... and replace them with an > early model PowerMac G4 ... > > With all my PCI cards (2 ATI Radeon 7000MEs, Sonnet ATA/100 and Trio, > USB/FW, ATTO ExpressPro SCSI, still working, and a good GeForce 4MX > AGP

Re: Mail Under 10.5.5 Fooling Me ...

2008-09-28 Thread Peter
On Sep 28, 2008, at 6:17 AM, insightinmind wrote: > > I can't for the life of me figure what I've done wrong in my Leopard > Mail app ... > > Can't send Mail ... incoming.verizon.net are all good (have 4+ e-mail > addresses for sorting things out) ... but outgoing.verizon.net > doesn't work anym

Re: Bootable Clone won't boot & Bootable clone vs Time Machine

2008-09-28 Thread Aaron
You may know this already, since it's over 6 weeks since you posted the question, but in case you don't: If your friend's MyBook drive is the Home Edition, which, from your description, it appears to be, then it is not bootable on a PPC Macintosh! It doesn't matter how you format it. There's a

Replacing 8500/9500 with which G4?

2008-09-28 Thread insightinmind
I need to let go of my 8500 and 9500 ... and replace them with an early model PowerMac G4 ... With all my PCI cards (2 ATI Radeon 7000MEs, Sonnet ATA/100 and Trio, USB/FW, ATTO ExpressPro SCSI, still working, and a good GeForce 4MX AGP card removed from my QS 2002, which G4 might you opt fo

Re: WD My Book failed firmware update

2008-09-28 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 28, 2008, at 5:05 AM, Aaron wrote: > It's pretty clear that the case's firmware has been clobbered. But > I'm wondering if the drive's firmware might be OK, so that I could > read it if I took it out of the case. Any thoughts? You're confusing different things. The firmware you clobbe

Mail Under 10.5.5 Fooling Me ...

2008-09-28 Thread insightinmind
I can't for the life of me figure what I've done wrong in my Leopard Mail app ... Can't send Mail ... incoming.verizon.net are all good (have 4+ e-mail addresses for sorting things out) ... but outgoing.verizon.net doesn't work anymore. It must be something simple ... looks like everything

WD My Book failed firmware update

2008-09-28 Thread Aaron
I tried updating the firmware on my Western Digital My Book Home Edition 500-GB drive with the updater "WD_MB_Home_1028 (1.02)". The progress bar seemed to slow down when it was almost finished and, a minute or so later I looked again and the progress bar had started again from the left, with a

Re: Difference between G4 733s?

2008-09-28 Thread PeterH
On Sep 27, 2008, at 1:29 PM, Tom wrote: > Do both 733s, the DA and the QS, fail to recognize internal hard > drives larger than 128 gigs? Native LBA48 capability, or, more correctly, the defaulting to include the LBA48 property, is part of the QS 2002 ROM, only. Also later G4s and all G5s.

Re: MDD startup problem and solution, and a question.

2008-09-28 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 28, 2008, at 4:11 AM, Aaron wrote: > Thanks to Dan, moss and Simon Royal for their responses. > > I did finally manage to test my PRAM battery and it's quite strong > -- about 4V according to my meter, which is only a bit inaccurate. It should be 3.6v and remain 3.6v to the bitter end.

Re: MDD startup problem and solution, and a question.

2008-09-28 Thread Aaron
Thanks to Dan, moss and Simon Royal for their responses. I did finally manage to test my PRAM battery and it's quite strong -- about 4V according to my meter, which is only a bit inaccurate. I don't remember what motivated me to check it, but I decided to try different RAM configurations, and