Re: Any hope for my G5 tower?

2009-07-28 Thread AHarmon
Never leave a computer off of a surge protector for ANY reason. Period. Never turn off a surge protector - that just obviates the whole point - screw the "energy savings" Try rebooting and resetting the PRAM: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379 Go to eBay, check out searches like this; http://sh

Re: will a PPC cloned boot drive work as the boot drive for an Intel?

2009-07-28 Thread amorielljason
The PPC G5 was running 10.5 (.2 I believe).  I tried again.  It will boot from the cloned G5 drive on the external hard drive, but the mouse still fails to work after boot-up, regardless of which USB port I try.  -- Original message from John Martz : -- > > On

Re: Which iMac is best, of the G5 series?

2009-07-28 Thread Mullin9
On Jul 27, 9:03 pm, Jim Scott wrote: > On Jul 27, 2009, at 8:50 PM, Mullin9 wrote: > > > > > I found the original iMac G5, > > the iMac G5 ambient light sensor, > > and the iMac G5 isight, > > which is the best, most likely to hold up, ? > > "Best" is subjective, but the most likely to hold up

Re: will a PPC cloned boot drive work as the boot drive for an Intel?

2009-07-28 Thread John Martz
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:16 PM, wrote: >  10.5.7 for the OS I assume that's what the mini is using ... how about the PPC G5 whose recovered install drive you were trying to boot from? What OS was it using? (Just wondering if that external drive contained the version of Tiger (or later) which su

Re: will a PPC cloned boot drive work as the boot drive for an Intel?

2009-07-28 Thread amorielljason
 10.5.7 for the OS -> > What flavor of Mac Mini do you have? And what version of OS X is it using? > > -irrational john > > --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ > You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a > group for those using

Re: will a PPC cloned boot drive work as the boot drive for an Intel?

2009-07-28 Thread amorielljason
 Macmini2,1   Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo   Processor Speed: 2 GHz   Number Of Processors: 1   Total Number Of Cores: 2   L2 Cache: 4 MB   Memory: 3 GBI'll try the archive and install migration this weekend since the brute force drag and drop wasn't successful.> > What flavor of Mac

Re: will a PPC cloned boot drive work as the boot drive for an Intel?

2009-07-28 Thread iJohn
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 4:38 PM, McGrude wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:32 PM, iJohn wrote: >> Yet another reason to move to Snow Leopard this fall ... > > No need to wait.   Download monolingual... Thanks for the suggestion, but I'll wait. I'm still too new to the Mac & to OS X and thus (o

Re: will a PPC cloned boot drive work as the boot drive for an Intel?

2009-07-28 Thread McGrude
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:32 PM, iJohn wrote: > Yet another reason to move to Snow Leopard this fall ... No need to wait. Download monolingual... ... but read the FAQ first re: PPC, Rosetta and the frameworks... http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/faq.php --~--~-~--~~

Re: will a PPC cloned boot drive work as the boot drive for an Intel?

2009-07-28 Thread iJohn
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 4:23 PM, McGrude wrote: > They're all universal binaries... Well, if that's the case then you've just explained how Apple was able to actually "shrink" the size of OS X in Snow Leopard. Getting rid of the PPC binaries would certainly accomplish that. (Funny I've never seen

AL Pro KB USB Port Use ... Pulsing Cursor

2009-07-28 Thread Bill Connelly
Are there pros and cons to using the extra USB port on a AL Pro KB? I tried using my Yamaha motif es8 digital piano keyboard through the USB port for USB/MIDI ... it seemed to work. But, at a later time it got so my OS X wouldn't startup ... and it would get stuck after loading the drivers f

Re: will a PPC cloned boot drive work as the boot drive for an Intel?

2009-07-28 Thread McGrude
> They're all universal binaries... Another data point... my 1.8 G5 single... [Plutonium] [hogsett] [/bin] --> file sh sh: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures sh (for architecture i386): Mach-O executable i386 sh (for architecture ppc7400): Mach-O executable ppc [Plutonium] [hogse

Re: will a PPC cloned boot drive work as the boot drive for an Intel?

2009-07-28 Thread McGrude
> If if did, then that would imply that the program binaries used by > both the PPC & Intel Macs was being stored on your PPC hard drive. IMO > that would be a lot of wasted space! (Lord knows I don't want any OS X > PPC binaries on my Intel MacBook's hard drive.) They're all universal binaries..

Re: will a PPC cloned boot drive work as the boot drive for an Intel?

2009-07-28 Thread iJohn
On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 3:12 PM, wrote: > Does anyone know if an Intel > Mac can be booted from a PPC boot drive? While I can't answer the question, I would certainly hope that this would *NOT* work. If if did, then that would imply that the program binaries used by both the PPC & Intel Macs wa

will a PPC cloned boot drive work as the boot drive for an Intel?

2009-07-28 Thread amorielljason
My dual 2.5 G5 with the CPU error that wouldn't boot (possibly due to bad capacitor acc. to earlier respnses) is still dead.  The local tech cloned its boot drive onto an external hard drive for me so that I could use it to boot our Mac Mini.  He said he wasn't sure if it would work as the boo

Re: Mail

2009-07-28 Thread Ricardo Sevilla
Bill Connelly wrote: > On Jul 28, 2009, at 3:03 AM, Norman Rowe wrote: > > >> Recently the apple mail program has been acting strange. It will self >> start after the daily utilities are run and I'm not able to get new >> mail sometimes. >> Mac G4 OS 10.5.7 2 megs of ram >> Did an erase and ins

Re: Hp printer quit printing

2009-07-28 Thread Al Poulin
On Jul 27, 11:28 pm, tonycd wrote: > Kris, I don't know either. I do remember that a long long time ago, > Epson was the last word in Mac-friendly printers -- is that no longer > true? Put Canon at the top of the inkjet printer list along with Epson. I notice that the Apple Stores stock mostly

Re: Best way to clone a hard drive to use as a start-up drive?

2009-07-28 Thread Al Poulin
On Jul 28, 6:19 am, Bill Connelly wrote: > > I would suggest not using the Block Level Copy, but use the File Level   > one. I agree. > > If you Block Level Copy a 60GB to a 750GB, the 750GB will look like a   > 60GB hard drive. So much so, that it will copy any bad blocks that are on the old d

Re: Best way to clone a hard drive to use as a start-up drive?

2009-07-28 Thread Al Poulin
On Jul 28, 4:45 am, mkehoe wrote: > Thanks for all the responses .. I have Prosoft Data Backup software on > my computer ... is this comparable to Carbon Copy Cloner for cloning, No, but a comparable product is SuperDuper which you buy. CCC is donation ware, and I was very happy to send in the

Re: Airport Extreme, G4, HP AIO

2009-07-28 Thread Al Poulin
On Jul 27, 1:10 pm, Meghrouni Vince wrote: > After setup as per above, printer works but G4 no longer can detect   > scanner. Vince: See my answer to your other thread in this list. Al Poulin --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscri

Re: Airport extreme, a G4 and an HP all-in-one

2009-07-28 Thread Al Poulin
On Jul 27, 3:26 am, Meghrouni Vince wrote: > > Stuff can print from the Macbook via the network I set up, beamed to   > the router, sent to the HP, etc., it's all good.  After a lot of trial   > and error fussing, stuff will print from the G4.  But when I bring up   > the scan utility in the G4,

Mail

2009-07-28 Thread Norman Rowe
Recently the apple mail program has been acting strange. It will self start after the daily utilities are run and I'm not able to get new mail sometimes. Mac G4 OS 10.5.7 2 megs of ram Did an erase and install of system and used the combo updater. Is there something wrong with this version o

Re: Mail

2009-07-28 Thread Bill Connelly
On Jul 28, 2009, at 3:03 AM, Norman Rowe wrote: > > Recently the apple mail program has been acting strange. It will self > start after the daily utilities are run and I'm not able to get new > mail sometimes. > Mac G4 OS 10.5.7 2 megs of ram > Did an erase and install of system and used the com

Re: Best way to clone a hard drive to use as a start-up drive?

2009-07-28 Thread Bill Connelly
On Jul 28, 2009, at 4:45 AM, mkehoe wrote: > > Thanks for all the responses .. I have Prosoft Data Backup software on > my computer ... is this comparable to Carbon Copy Cloner for cloning, > or should I use CCC? I have 10.4.11 OS (Tiger) on my Power Mac G4. > > On Jul 27, 3:09 pm, McGrude wro

Re: Best way to clone a hard drive to use as a start-up drive?

2009-07-28 Thread mkehoe
Thanks for all the responses .. I have Prosoft Data Backup software on my computer ... is this comparable to Carbon Copy Cloner for cloning, or should I use CCC? I have 10.4.11 OS (Tiger) on my Power Mac G4. On Jul 27, 3:09 pm, McGrude wrote: > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:42 PM, mkehoe wrote: >