Re: Flashing PCI video cards for G4's - tape pins?

2009-07-04 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jul 4, 2009, at 5:48 PM, joplinfan wrote: > I'm getting ready to flash a BFG / Geforce 6200 and a Radeon 9250... > both standard PCI cards... to use in my MDD G4 1ghz towers. Been > studying up on the process at The Mac Elite website where it mentions > that AGP cards require tape to be placed

Re: Help! HD filling up issue

2009-07-04 Thread Stephen Conrad
On 7/4/09, Bill Connelly wrote: > >>> 40.8MB > > ??? > > What I was trying to get at is ... > > Is the hard drive that full? or is he running out of available memory, > and thinks the message pertains to the HD in lieu of actual RAM? No, the HD actually has 1.52 GB of free space and then, after

Re: Help! HD filling up issue

2009-07-04 Thread Bill Connelly
On Jul 5, 2009, at 12:51 AM, Stephen Conrad wrote: > Well..this is the original 6 GB HD that came with this machine > 4.67 GB for Mac OS X > 896.8 MB for storage (it was gonna be OS 9 but I deferred it to > storage) ' OS X takes a fair amount of disk space just to install. A 6GB drive p

Re: Help! HD filling up issue

2009-07-04 Thread Bill Connelly
>> 40.8MB ??? What I was trying to get at is ... Is the hard drive that full? or is he running out of available memory, and thinks the message pertains to the HD in lieu of actual RAM? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribe

Re: Help! HD filling up issue

2009-07-04 Thread Stephen Conrad
On 7/4/09, Clark Martin wrote: > > Bill Connelly wrote: > >> I've read somewhere if your free hard drive space is less than 50% of >> the total, you might even have trouble running OS X ... don't know the >> facts here, but you need more free space just to run OS X ... after >> the space taken up

Re: Help! HD filling up issue

2009-07-04 Thread Clark Martin
Bill Connelly wrote: > I've read somewhere if your free hard drive space is less than 50% of > the total, you might even have trouble running OS X ... don't know the > facts here, but you need more free space just to run OS X ... after > the space taken up by the Installation. I think its

Re: HD Question

2009-07-04 Thread Len Gerstel
On Jul 5, 2009, at 12:05 AM, Stephen Conrad wrote: > > My spare HDs > === > Generic 120.0 GB 7200 RPM > Samsung SP0802N (S/N S00JJ40Y371416) -> Listed on it as "probably > bad" but I'd still check it out > WD Caviar 22500 AT Compatible Intelligent Drive > WD Caviar 12100 EIDE > > > Are

HD Question

2009-07-04 Thread Stephen Conrad
My spare HDs === Generic 120.0 GB 7200 RPM Samsung SP0802N (S/N S00JJ40Y371416)   -> Listed on it as "probably bad" but I'd still check it out WD Caviar 22500 AT Compatible Intelligent Drive WD Caviar 12100 EIDE Are these PATA HDs? I want to buy a G4 from someone and he said they w

Re: Help! HD filling up issue

2009-07-04 Thread Stephen Conrad
On 7/4/09, Bill Connelly wrote: > > > On Jul 4, 2009, at 7:37 PM, Stephen Conrad wrote: > >> >> OK, I am on a B&W G3 (Smurf) and it had 1.53 GB left on the HD >> OS X 10.2.8 (new computer is going to be here soon) >> I only have the following open: Opera, Safari, Terminal and TextEdit >> Suddenly

Re: Help! HD filling up issue

2009-07-04 Thread Bill Connelly
On Jul 4, 2009, at 7:37 PM, Stephen Conrad wrote: > > OK, I am on a B&W G3 (Smurf) and it had 1.53 GB left on the HD > OS X 10.2.8 (new computer is going to be here soon) > I only have the following open: Opera, Safari, Terminal and TextEdit > Suddenly I get a message saying I have no more HD sp

Help! HD filling up issue

2009-07-04 Thread Stephen Conrad
OK, I am on a B&W G3 (Smurf) and it had 1.53 GB left on the HD OS X 10.2.8 (new computer is going to be here soon) I only have the following open: Opera, Safari, Terminal and TextEdit Suddenly I get a message saying I have no more HD space free (it is down to 40.8 MB) I have only downloaded 2 smal

Flashing PCI video cards for G4's - tape pins?

2009-07-04 Thread joplinfan
Hi all, I'm getting ready to flash a BFG / Geforce 6200 and a Radeon 9250... both standard PCI cards... to use in my MDD G4 1ghz towers. Been studying up on the process at The Mac Elite website where it mentions that AGP cards require tape to be placed over some of the pins due to Apple's non sta

Re: G4 PowerMac 500MHz Sawtooth won't shut down

2009-07-04 Thread Bill Connelly
On Jul 4, 2009, at 2:41 PM, Timo Virkkala wrote: > > I'm trying to revive a G4 box. I pulled a hard drive and memory from a > working 400MHz Sawtooth into a 500MHz Sawtooth. > > But it won't shut down from the software. It restarts. > > I pulled items out of the admin account's Library/StartupIt

G4 PowerMac 500MHz Sawtooth won't shut down

2009-07-04 Thread Timo Virkkala
I'm trying to revive a G4 box. I pulled a hard drive and memory from a working 400MHz Sawtooth into a 500MHz Sawtooth. But it won't shut down from the software. It restarts. I pulled items out of the admin account's Library/StartupItems/ folder. Still does it. Could hard drive jumper settin

Re: Word 6.0 crashes on hit print, using word 9.0

2009-07-04 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jul 3, 2009, at 1:36 PM, Anastasia O'Melveny wrote: > > Can open/create/edit Word 6.0 documents > but immediately after seeing the print preview and hitting print, > Word crashes and gives error of type 1 Try saving the documents as the new version, then printing the new docs. -- Bruce John

Re: converting a g5 9800 x8 card to a g4 4x card with the tape hack questions

2009-07-04 Thread dc
On Jul 3, 10:31 am, Roger Deghetto wrote: > i know if you take a radeon 9800 out of a g5 the one with dvi /adc ports you > have to tape pins 3 and 11 to get it to work in a 4x g4 what id like to know > does doing that disable the adc port in other words would i still be able to > use my second

Re: G5 PPC Quad 2.7GZ

2009-07-04 Thread Geoff Black
Thanx Kris - Sorry 4 fingertrouble - 2.5ghz it is. PSU is just outside the ;isted troublesomes. Is the 7 th led a psu pointer? Grateful 4 feedback regards geoff b On 03 Jul 2009, at 9:05 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: > > On Jul 3, 2009, at 2:41 AM, MacG5 wrote: > >> Have a G5 Quad - wont boot. > >