Re: Sleep issue on G4 DA

2009-11-04 Thread Michael G.M.
Hello Stewie, I'd just like to thank you for your patience and support first. Now, good news: Two DIMMs were defective - The Mac would not sleep and wake properly with two of them. (all 512 MB DIMMs) One is fine! Thank goodness! The USB card also caused the problem. FW 400 PCI card, don't know

Untrashable PC files on mac

2009-11-04 Thread Geoff Black
Greetings team, I have some remote pc server files on My g5 quad - Cannot get rid of them. Actions sofar include... CMD+Opt empty trash - No joy Removing and renaming the files and re-dumping

Re: Untrashable PC files on mac

2009-11-04 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:47 AM, Geoff Black bla...@telkomsa.net wrote: Greetings team, I have some remote pc server files on My g5 quad - Cannot get rid of them. Actions sofar include... CMD+Opt empty trash - No joy Removing and renaming the

Value of G4/G5s

2009-11-04 Thread Sam Macomber
Since I have not really been keeping an eye on the swap list for a while i don't really know where I stand now on the sale of some gear here at work. Short story, large client went bye bye now we have more computing power than we need. so we've got a G4 xserve, pair of G5 xserves,

Re: Value of G4/G5s

2009-11-04 Thread John Niven
--- On Wed, 11/4/09, Sam Macomber s...@macomber.com wrote: so we've got a G4 xserve, pair of G5 xserves, (dual 2 and dual 2.3)  all xserves have fiber channel cards, and all xserves have full  drivebays(G4 has three 750GB and an 80, G5s have triple 250GB)   two  xserve RAIDS (one has

Re: Value of G4/G5s

2009-11-04 Thread Sam Macomber
On Nov 4, 2009, at 12:31 PM, John Niven wrote: --- On Wed, 11/4/09, Sam Macomber s...@macomber.com wrote: so we've got a G4 xserve, pair of G5 xserves, (dual 2 and dual 2.3) all xserves have fiber channel cards, and all xserves have full drivebays(G4 has three 750GB and an 80, G5s have

Re: Value of G4/G5s

2009-11-04 Thread Wtob327
How do you enter items for sale on the swap list? I also have excess G4 desktops, one of which is as new! That one in particular was purchased new as a back-up system, but was never really used for anything...just kept in reserve. Thanks. Wayne

Re: Value of G4/G5s

2009-11-04 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:43 PM, wtob...@aol.com wrote: How do you enter items for sale on the swap list? I also have excess G4 desktops, one of which is as new! That one in particular was purchased new as a back-up system, but was never really used for anything...just kept in reserve.

RE: Sleep issue on G4 DA

2009-11-04 Thread Stewie de Young
Mike if you have gone through a hundred bongs , you should be very stoned by now !! Glad to hear you fixed your problem. When in doubt with Ram I have run Memtest which has on the odd occasion found faults with memory modules - it just takes quite a while to run is all. OSX is very fussy when

Re: Radeon 9800 Gig Ethernet

2009-11-04 Thread PETER WARNER
On Oct 31, 2009, at 4:59 AM, pdimage wrote: A card with artifacts at stock speeds has some kind of problem - if it disappears when the card is downclocked the problem is likely overheating so the first thing I would do is service the heatsink and fan or look for an alternative like an

Re: Radeon 9800 Gig Ethernet

2009-11-04 Thread Erik Hancock
Check the thermal conductivity and you may see a factor of 3x to 4x better with the higher quality stuff ­ my local repair guy used the better stuff to fix the Xbox overheating syndrome and will now only use that for any thermal connections. IF you are trying to fix overheating I¹d go with the

RE: Radeon 9800 Gig Ethernet

2009-11-04 Thread Stewie de Young
I snipped this from another forum a while back - can't remember where. Use Arctic Cooling MX-2. It has better thermal conductivity than Arctic Silver 5, and unlike silver based thermal compounds (Arctic Silver), MX-2 is electrically non-conductive and non-capacitive. There is absolutely no