Re: 733 DA or 733 QS?

2008-12-31 Thread Paul
Didn't all the Quicksilvers have the same PS? Or is it that they're compatible with each other, but higher-end ones had a more durable one? I'm working on a 733 QS that just started showing some problems that could well be related to the PS. On Dec 2, 12:29 pm, Christopher Icha

MDD Dual 1.25 on a MDD dual 867 logic board

2008-12-31 Thread Charles Lenington
I'm trying to find the recent discussion on moving newer Mac processors to older macs. I can't remember the topic it came up under. One discussion led to this ref which doesn't help. http://lowendmac.com/musings/08mm/used-power-mac-value.html While I realize the board buss speeds are

IMac

2008-12-31 Thread George Hozendorf
What is the latest version of OSX a G5 iMac will take? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ

Re: IMac

2008-12-31 Thread Len Gerstel
On Dec 31, 2008, at 8:46 AM, George Hozendorf wrote: What is the latest version of OSX a G5 iMac will take? A G5 will take the latest OS Apple has released, 10.5 with all updates. The word on the street, and I do not know if Apple has officially confirmed it, but I think they have, is

Re: IMac

2008-12-31 Thread George Hozendorf
On Dec 31, 2008, at 8:00 AM, Len Gerstel wrote: On Dec 31, 2008, at 8:46 AM, George Hozendorf wrote: What is the latest version of OSX a G5 iMac will take? A G5 will take the latest OS Apple has released, 10.5 with all updates. The word on the street, and I do not know if Apple has

Re: How many internal hard drives

2008-12-31 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 30, 2008, at 3:18 PM, Mike Baker wrote: can be installed in a G$ Sawtooth? Do they have to be slaved together? It appears they do have to slaved together, since I only see one ATA slot on the motherboard. I do have an external Firewire hard drive attached to the G4 now, but I

Re: IMac

2008-12-31 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 31, 2008, at 7:00 AM, Len Gerstel wrote: The word on the street, and I do not know if Apple has officially confirmed it, but I think they have, is that 10.6 will only run on Intel based Macs. Yes, it was mentioned at the announcement of 10.6 that 10.6 was going to be Intel-only.

Re: Q's about Booting Off a PCI, Not mobo, IDE/ATA Channel

2008-12-31 Thread PeterH
On Dec 31, 2008, at 8:14 AM, insightinmind wrote: Is this normal behavior booting off a PCI IDE card in a PCI Graphics, when no other drive is on the mobo channel? Yes, in my experience. The ATA drives which are attached to the PCI card are emulated as SCSI drives, so the 'puter has to

Re: Q's about Booting Off a PCI, Not mobo, IDE/ATA Channel

2008-12-31 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 31, 2008, at 9:14 AM, insightinmind wrote: At initial Startup, after a opt-command-P-R, my screen flashes the folder ? / Mac OS Icon, then finds the HD, and boots fine thereafter. Simply designate that drive in Startup Disk and it will be fine thereafter (until a PRAM reset

Re: Q's about Booting Off a PCI, Not mobo, IDE/ATA Channel

2008-12-31 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 31, 2008, at 9:14 AM, insightinmind wrote: I'm currently successfully using the Apple Startup after using XPF with its Uninstall-ation, hoping the Boot Cache (name?) has been replaced correctly. WHY are you using XPF on a Yikes at all? XPostFacto is to get non-OSX compatible

Airport Dual Band Network? OFF TOPIC

2008-12-31 Thread Jeffrey Engle
After 2 days of searching I came up emptyThis is truly a shot in the dark and severely off topic. I have the need for an Apple network (I say Apple because I'm using apple hardware to achieve my goal). I need to have a b/g 2.4ghz network along with an N 5ghz network. I won't go into

Re: Wanted: Generic icons in Leopard

2008-12-31 Thread Dana Collins
On 12/30/08 11:03 PM, Steve R of mailing.lists.2...@gmail.com sent At 9:24 PM -0500 12/30/08, Dana Collins posted: On 12/30/08 1:51 PM, Steve R of mailing.lists.2...@gmail.com sent Thank you!!! Do you know if there is a way to make this the overall default for all Finder windows without

Re: 733 DA or 733 QS?

2008-12-31 Thread Dana Collins
On 12/31/08 4:33 AM, Paul of pper...@gmail.com sent Didn't all the Quicksilvers have the same PS? Or is it that they're compatible with each other, but higher-end ones had a more durable one? I'm working on a 733 QS that just started showing some problems that could well be related to

Re: 733 DA or 733 QS?

2008-12-31 Thread PeterH
On Dec 31, 2008, at 1:33 AM, Paul wrote: Didn't all the Quicksilvers have the same PS? They have the same rating PSU, but perhaps not made by the same company. The same is true of other Apple models. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because

Re: Facebook G3/10.4.11

2008-12-31 Thread Dan
At 2:15 PM -0500 12/30/2008, Steve R wrote: iMac/500mHz with a fresh 10.4.11 can't get into the 'new' facebook site. Please provide specific URLs etc. I'm having no problem with Facebook or its IM, on my 300-MHz Smurf. Some pages can be quite nasty, because they're loaded with too much

Re: Wanted: Generic icons in Leopard

2008-12-31 Thread Steve R
At 1:08 PM -0500 12/31/08, Dana Collins posted: On 12/30/08 11:03 PM, Steve R of mailing.lists.2...@gmail.com sent [snip] Good to hear, Steve - that is, glad that your issue was resolved, not that (like mine) your eyesight is challenged :-) ! My sight gets challenged with all the music

Re: Facebook G3/10.4.11

2008-12-31 Thread Steve R
At 1:16 PM -0500 12/31/08, Dan posted: At 2:15 PM -0500 12/30/2008, Steve R wrote: iMac/500mHz with a fresh 10.4.11 can't get into the 'new' facebook site. Please provide specific URLs etc. I'm having no problem with Facebook or its IM, on my 300-MHz Smurf. Some pages can be quite

Re: My computer

2008-12-31 Thread J.M.P.Hissel
On 31-12-2008 02:57, rmwoods, rmwo...@interlog.com, wrote: Although I have been using Mac for years, I am not expert enough to know what kind of g4 (I think) I now have. The :About this Mac specs are as follows: Hardware Overview: Serial Number: Go back to the System Profiler and

Re: Q's about Booting Off a PCI, Not mobo, IDE/ATA Channel

2008-12-31 Thread insightinmind
On Dec 31, 2008, at 1:05 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Dec 31, 2008, at 9:14 AM, insightinmind wrote: I'm currently successfully using the Apple Startup after using XPF with its Uninstall-ation, hoping the Boot Cache (name?) has been replaced correctly. WHY are you using XPF on a Yikes

Re: How many internal hard drives

2008-12-31 Thread insightinmind
On Dec 31, 2008, at 3:23 PM, Jack Countryman wrote: On 12/31/08 10:37 AM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Dec 30, 2008, at 3:18 PM, Mike Baker wrote: can be installed in a G$ Sawtooth? Do they have to be slaved together? It appears they do have to slaved together,

Re: Q's about Booting Off a PCI, Not mobo, IDE/ATA Channel

2008-12-31 Thread Mel
One of the ATTO ultra320SCSI PCI cards might allow you to boot from an external HD. Go to Google and first try typing and adding UL 2D then UL3D.  There are other ATTO Ultra PCI cards that might also work but they might be too expensive. I was using a G4 DA (partitioned with OS 10.4.11 and

Re: Quitting Safari

2008-12-31 Thread Wilton Shaw
On Dec 30, 2008, at 6:45 PM, joe wrote: On Dec 30, 2008, at 3:45 PM, Wilton Shaw wrote: Safari started quitting on my eMac, using OS 10.5.6. Every time I try to bring it up, the picture shows up on the screen and then disappears. A note coms up saying it unexpectedly quit. Any

Re: Quitting Safari

2008-12-31 Thread Dan
At 3:32 PM -0500 12/31/2008, Wilton Shaw wrote: I am confused about something else. I received a message last week saying that adding comments to a former message no longer had to be put at the bottom of the email. This week, I got a message reprimanding me for not putting my added

Re: My computer

2008-12-31 Thread rmwoods
As might be seen in my original post, there seems to be no serial number in the Hardware Overview section. I don't know what that means. On Dec 31, 1:34 pm, J.M.P.Hissel jo...@xs4all.nl wrote: On 31-12-2008 02:57, rmwoods, rmwo...@interlog.com, wrote: Although I have been using Mac for

Re: How many internal hard drives

2008-12-31 Thread PeterH
On Dec 31, 2008, at 12:23 PM, Jack Countryman wrote: Not if he's willing to give up the cdrom/zip drive. There is a second port at the front of the board where those hook up. If he's willing to give up the cd and/or zip, he can attach another 2 drives (one master [replacing the

Re: My computer

2008-12-31 Thread J.M.P.Hissel
On 31-12-2008 22:59, rmwoods, rmwo...@interlog.com, wrote: As might be seen in my original post, there seems to be no serial number in the Hardware Overview section. I don't know what that means. Well, then look anywhere on your case for a barcode-sticker which will normally have the Serial

Re: Q's about Booting Off a PCI, Not mobo, IDE/ATA Channel

2008-12-31 Thread insightinmind
On Dec 31, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Mel wrote: One of the ATTO ultra320SCSI PCI cards might allow you to boot from an external HD. Go to Google and first try typing and adding UL 2D then UL3D. There are other ATTO Ultra PCI cards that might also work but they might be too expensive. I

Re: My computer

2008-12-31 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 30, 2008, at 7:57 PM, rmwoods wrote: Hardware Overview: Machine Name:Power Mac G4 Machine Model: PowerMac3,3 CPU Type:PowerPC G4 (2.8) Number Of CPUs: 1 CPU Speed: 450 MHz L2 Cache (per CPU): 1 MB Memory: 512 MB Bus Speed: 100 MHz Boot

Re: How many internal hard drives

2008-12-31 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 31, 2008, at 1:28 PM, insightinmind wrote: ... and Didn't I read somewhere that the 128GB limit didn't apply to the IDE channel that hooks the DVD/ZIP up? Correct, but it's also half the bus speed of the other ATA port... -- Bruce Johnson U of Az College of Pharmacy Information

Re: Q's about Booting Off a PCI, Not mobo, IDE/ATA Channel

2008-12-31 Thread insightinmind
On Dec 31, 2008, at 7:46 PM, Charles Davis wrote: Is the MoBd Firmware 'up to date??? That is what controls things during 'Startup' -- I.E. IF it doesn't include awareness of 'Firewire' --- That isn't a possibility without something like 'XPF Helper'. Ditto for USB. Here's my ...

Re: How many internal hard drives

2008-12-31 Thread Hunter Fuller
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Re: Q's about Booting Off a PCI, Not mobo, IDE/ATA Channel

2008-12-31 Thread Charles Davis
On Dec 31, 2008, at 9:04 PM, insightinmind wrote: On Dec 31, 2008, at 7:46 PM, Charles Davis wrote: Is the MoBd Firmware 'up to date??? That is what controls things during 'Startup' -- I.E. IF it doesn't include awareness of 'Firewire' --- That isn't a possibility without something

Re: How many internal hard drives

2008-12-31 Thread Charles Davis
On Dec 31, 2008, at 10:09 PM, Hunter Fuller wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Never used anything below Panther as far as X goes, but I know I've run 9 without a CD drive. 2008/12/30 Mike Baker : -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment:

Re: How many internal hard drives

2008-12-31 Thread Hunter Fuller
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Re: How many internal hard drives

2008-12-31 Thread Jack Countryman
Or do the install with the cd online, then swap something in its place later. Out of the four drives possible that way how many need to have different boot systems on them? If the drive substituted for the cd is to be a data drive, it could be put online last and formatted etc. if needed then?

Re: How many internal hard drives

2008-12-31 Thread Charles Davis
On Jan 1, 2009, at 12:07 AM, Jack Countryman wrote: Or do the install with the cd online, then swap something in its place later. Out of the four drives possible that way how many need to have different boot systems on them? If the drive substituted for the cd is to be a data drive,

Re: NetDisk booting on G3 powermac

2008-12-31 Thread Mullin9
On Dec 31, 7:46 am, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Dec 30, 2008, at 11:48 PM, Mullin9 wrote: I have a Beige G3 powerMac, and a NetDisk ( an external Harddrive, with an ethernet port) can I boot from my ethernet based NetDisk?. No. To do netbooting on a Mac