Re: Printing

2009-02-19 Thread Kris Tilford
On Feb 18, 2009, at 10:32 PM, Charles Davis wrote: ADB = Apple Data Buss, and yes that is a serial connection. [ADB as opposed to RS232, which is also a serial protocol. There's no such thing as an ADB printer AFAIK. You're talking about an Apple Serial printer. The cables are somewhat

Re: Unstable upgraded BW G3...

2009-02-19 Thread Larry Stotler
On Feb 11, 7:20 pm, rtows...@aol.com wrote: And to my great relief, it's now running Tiger 10.4.11 flawlessly, albeit slower than it ran with the 450 CPU... I guess I naively thought that, since I was using a chip from the same (but speed-bumped) model, and it fit so nicely, that it

Restart No Video ... Cold Boot, OK

2009-02-19 Thread insightinmind
My QS 2002 Dual 1GHz, 10.5.4, issues with kp-s and Blue Screen freezes, seems to have been solved by replacing my upgraded video card with the original one. After using the Suggested 12-Steps for resolving kp-s at: http://macosg.com/group/viewtopic.php?t=800 I discovered that my ATI Radeon

Re: mac pro edition video cards

2009-02-19 Thread Ross
On Feb 17, 11:18 pm, roger deghetto linuxuse...@yahoo.com wrote: im in talks with a guy about buing a video card  he has for my mdd i know its comming out of a mdd all he said was that its a 256mb mac pro edition im wondering was there any mac gpus that came before the 9600 that had 256mb

Re: Printing

2009-02-19 Thread Charles Davis
On Feb 19, 2009, at 3:05 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Feb 18, 2009, at 10:32 PM, Charles Davis wrote: ADB = Apple Data Buss, and yes that is a serial connection. [ADB as opposed to RS232, which is also a serial protocol. There's no such thing as an ADB printer AFAIK. You're talking about

Re: Printing

2009-02-19 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 19, 2009, at 8:30 AM, Charles Davis wrote: the Ethernet address that showed up is 169.254.32.118 This is a self-assigned IP address, an address that the device assigns itself when no other source of addresses, such as bootp or DHCP are present. It's in the Zeroconf (aka Bonjour)

Re: ADC Monitor Question

2009-02-19 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 18, 2009, at 8:11 PM, Eric Volker wrote: I have a friend with a 23 Apple Cinema Display, with a curious problem. Apparently the USB controller in the monitor occasionally hiccups and hoses USB on his whole PowerMac. Due to this issue, he's willing to part with it. Now my G5 has a

Re: Broken screw

2009-02-19 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 18, 2009, at 6:54 PM, Norm Rowe wrote: I know I can just leave it alone but when I installed my ATI 9800 card one of the screws that hold the cable broke off. It is in a position where it nearly impossible to get a tool on it. Any ideas other than to just let be? Not if you

Re: ADC Monitor Question

2009-02-19 Thread Tom
I bought one of those adapters to allow the DVI connector on a G5 to use an ADC monitor, at the local Apple Store, and it works fine. I'm running an ADC 24 Apple Cinema HD display with it. The power brick of the adapter is about the size of a paperback book, but it just sits on the floor under my

Re: ADC Monitor Question

2009-02-19 Thread Eric Volker
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:07 AM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: This is what you need http://tinyurl.com/accan9 Still expensive at $100, but not $300. To stop the USB madness, just don't connect the USB cable on the DVI side. As for using one with an ADC port, I suppose

Re: Restart No Video ... Cold Boot, OK

2009-02-19 Thread Dan
Title: Re: Restart No Video ... Cold Boot, OK At 9:31 AM -0500 2/19/2009, insightinmind wrote: My QS 2002 Dual 1GHz, 10.5.4, issues with kp-s and Blue Screen freezes, seems to have been solved by replacing my upgraded video card with the original one. After using the Suggested 12-Steps for

Re: ADC Monitor Question

2009-02-19 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 19, 2009, at 1:13 PM, Eric Volker wrote: But would it be as simple as connecting a DVI-to-VGA adapter to the DVI-to-ADC adapter? I've got plenty of DVI-to-VGA adapters floating around, but they're all designed to allow a DVI card to connect to a VGA monitor. The only VGA to DVI

Re: USB to Firewire conversion

2009-02-19 Thread Mullin9
Did you even READ the page??? I went back and read the Page Basically this is for powering a FW device from a USB port. Charging a FW-only iPod from a USB port is about the only possible use for it. It is NOT a conversion cable. The solution is to get a fw external case for your

Heat sink Fasteners for ATI Radeon 9800 Pro

2009-02-19 Thread Dana Collins
Greetings all, I had a nice swap recently that netted me, to my surprise, a working ATI Mac Radeon 9800 Pro 4x/8x AGP video card. Like so many ATI fans before, this fan (on the heat sink) was toast - I was able to come up with a good replacement, but the heat sink fasteners (those 2 little

Bondi iMac

2009-02-19 Thread R. A. Cantrell
Well, now I've gone and done it. I'm trying to fix up a Bondi iMac for a neighbor kid, and it worked just fine till I fixed it. I could not remember to password I had for the admin account, so I just hit it in the head with HD SPeed Tools, thinking that I would then load up a new install of 9.1.

Re: Heat sink Fasteners for ATI Radeon 9800 Pro

2009-02-19 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 19, 2009, at 2:54 PM, Dana Collins wrote: Greetings all, I had a nice swap recently that netted me, to my surprise, a working ATI Mac Radeon 9800 Pro 4x/8x AGP video card. Like so many ATI fans before, this fan (on the heat sink) was toast - I was able to come up with a good

Best linux for iPod Clickwheel

2009-02-19 Thread Mullin9
What is the Best linux for iPod 4th Gen. Clickwheel? I tried iPodLinux Installer 0.6, but is was buggy/freeze prone. http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/19101/4g-ipodlinux-installer do you know of other Alt. OS for iPod 4th Gen. or even iPodLinux Installer 0.5 (the previous version)? Thanks

Re: USB to Firewire conversion

2009-02-19 Thread Aaron
At 09:34 -0800 2009/02/18, Mullin9 wrote: I Have a USB 2.0 external Hard drive. but is real slow on the older USB 1.1 [SNIP] I want to use my FW 400 rather than USB 1.1 (the slow one) for my USB 2.0 external Hard drive You don't say what kind of computer you're using that has USB 1.1. If it's

Re: USB to Firewire conversion

2009-02-19 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Feb 19, 2009, at 4:00 PM, Aaron wrote: At 10:56 -0700 2009/02/18, Bruce Johnson wrote: The solution is to get a fw external case for your external drive, and transplant the hard drive. Before doing that, you have to know if the drive itself is IDE/PATA or SATA. Moreover, is the

Re: Bondi iMac

2009-02-19 Thread Charles Davis
On Feb 19, 2009, at 4:57 PM, R. A. Cantrell wrote: Well, now I've gone and done it. I'm trying to fix up a Bondi iMac for a neighbor kid, and it worked just fine till I fixed it. I could not remember to password I had for the admin account, so I just hit it in the head with HD SPeed

Re: Heat sink Fasteners for ATI Radeon 9800 Pro

2009-02-19 Thread PeterH
On Feb 19, 2009, at 5:37 PM, Dana Collins wrote: Digi-key and Mouser show nothing matches to my searches ... Nylon latches? A great many years ago, I was lucky ... should that be the correct term ... to score quite a number of G3 PDS upgrade cards for 7100/7100/9150 NuBus PowerMacs at

Re: Heat sink Fasteners for ATI Radeon 9800 Pro

2009-02-19 Thread Ralph Green
Howdy, On ebay, I found a complete heatsink for $8 delivered with fasteners. I did not look through all the offerings, so there may be a better deal. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemrd=1item=300280929875 Good luck, Ralph On Thu, 2009-02-19 at 20:37 -0500, Dana Collins wrote:

Re: Bondi iMac

2009-02-19 Thread R. A. Cantrell
Bondi no got firewire! On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Charles Davis c...@gamewood.net wrote: On Feb 19, 2009, at 4:57 PM, R. A. Cantrell wrote: Well, now I've gone and done it. I'm trying to fix up a Bondi iMac for a neighbor kid, and it worked just fine till I fixed it. I could not

Re: Bondi iMac

2009-02-19 Thread Robert MacLeay
On Feb 19, 2:57 pm, R. A. Cantrell rac...@gmail.com wrote: ... it will not mount any OS from a CD. I've tried the HDST disk again, a generic 9.1 disk, Disk Warrior, and an Apple Hardware test disk. Try this (This is not recommended practice and could possibly harm your controller or drive!),

Re: Restart No Video ... Cold Boot, OK

2009-02-19 Thread gifutiger
Have you obtained the ATI drivers from http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.HTML and installed them so that they will load at boot time? I had a simular problem as you have until I installed them in my G4 Sawtooth - Harry - On Feb 19, 12:18 pm, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 9:31 AM -0500

Re: Bondi iMac

2009-02-19 Thread Charles Davis
On Feb 19, 2009, at 9:34 PM, R. A. Cantrell wrote: Bondi no got firewire! On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Charles Davis c...@gamewood.net wrote: snip Have you tried --- Booting in 'Target' mode (via Firewire), and installing from the other machine? Chuck D. Sorry, I took a

Beige G3 - CD drive sometimes not recognized

2009-02-19 Thread joplinfan
Hi all, Have a 300mhz Beige G3 running 9.2.2 and 10.4.8 Sometimes the G3 can access the CD drive and other times it can't. When it can't, a PRAM reset via the keyboard will always get it recognized and going again... but it may become unrecognized again after a few minutes. I've replaced the

Re: Heat sink Fasteners for ATI Radeon 9800 Pro

2009-02-19 Thread Dana Collins
On 2/19/09 8:59 PM, PeterH of peterh5...@rattlebrain.com sent On Feb 19, 2009, at 5:37 PM, Dana Collins wrote: Digi-key and Mouser show nothing matches to my searches ... Nylon latches? A great many years ago, I was lucky ... should that be the correct term ... to score

Re: Beige G3 - CD drive sometimes not recognized

2009-02-19 Thread Kris Tilford
On Feb 19, 2009, at 10:47 PM, joplinfan wrote: Have a 300mhz Beige G3 running 9.2.2 and 10.4.8 Sometimes the G3 can access the CD drive and other times it can't. When it can't, a PRAM reset via the keyboard will always get it recognized and going again... but it may become unrecognized

Re: Bondi iMac

2009-02-19 Thread R. A. Cantrell
Can't get to the drive or cable in an iMac while it is running On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Robert MacLeay rmacl...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 19, 2:57 pm, R. A. Cantrell rac...@gmail.com wrote: ... it will not mount any OS from a CD. I've tried the HDST disk again, a generic 9.1 disk,

Re: Restart No Video ... Cold Boot, OK

2009-02-19 Thread insightinmind
On Feb 19, 2009, at 11:04 PM, gifutiger wrote: Have you obtained the ATI drivers from http://ati.amd.com/support/ driver.HTML and installed them so that they will load at boot time? I had a simular problem as you have until I installed them in my G4 Sawtooth Actually, for 10.5, I