Re: Heavy thumbs required for G4 iBook space bar

[Kris Tilford]

On Dec 24, 2009, at 1:43 AM, Dwight Hines wrote:

 iBook G4, 14inch, 1.33gHz, OS-X.5.8, Leopard -- Space bar not  
 registering unless heavy thumbs work, getting tiresome  
 andsolotsofwords run together.

 Suggestions?

1) fix space bar on keyboard (probably best idea, may require parts?)

2) if unable to fix, buy another keyboard

3) if unable to buy another keyboard, place weights on thumbs to assist.

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QS PSU in Gig-E?

[Jonas Ulrich]

Hi all, I am just looking at this spare Quicksilver Power Supply, and
noticing that it has a much bigger wattage of 344W vs the 220 in the Gigabit
Ethernet PowerMac. Is it possible to swap? Would there be any reason/benefit
to swap? Thanks!!

-Jonas

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Re: How to configure an airport base station snow?

[Jonas Ulrich]

Thank you all so much! The ABS is up and running!

-Jonas

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu
 wrote:


 On Dec 23, 2009, at 12:57 PM, Kasey Smith wrote:

 
  If you're using 10.4 or 10.5 the Apple Airport Setup software that
  comes with your system will not control the older Snow or Graphite
  Airports, and the older stuff may not install, however there's a
  simple Java app that works just fine:
 
  The AirPort Admin Utility in Tiger configures my graphite and snow
  base stations. :\

 Then it was 10.5 that did it. I couldn't remember; all I remembered is
 that I had to resort to this software to manage my ABS because the
 current version would not work.

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Re: Heavy thumbs required for G4 iBook space bar

[Richard Smallwood]

On 24 Dec 2009, at 1:43 AM, Dwight Hines wrote:

 iBook G4, 14inch, 1.33gHz, OS-X.5.8, Leopard -- Space bar not  
 registering unless heavy thumbs work, getting tiresome  
 andsolotsofwords run together.

 Suggestions?

Check for item/gunk under space bar.

Remove space bar by gripping upper right and left hand edge and pull  
up and back until it unsnaps.

Brush away anything which isn't plastic, rubber or white in color.

When reinstalling the space bar, first insert the ends of bottom U  
shaped metal rod through the bottom loops of the pair of raised metal  
loops on both sides of the space bar mounting area. Then push the  
space bar onto the tips of the nylon springs until you hear the  
snapping/crunching sounds as the tips and the space bar engage.

Hope this helps.
Richard


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Re: Heavy thumbs required for G4 iBook space bar

[Richard Gerome]

 It sounds like a problem with the keyboard??? You can try some electronics cleaner on it and a can of air... If that doesn't do it then try another keyboard-Original Message-
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iBook G4, 14inch, 1.33gHz, OS-X.5.8, Leopard -- Space bar not registering unless heavy thumbs work, getting tiresome andsolotsofwords run together.Suggestions?Dwight HinesFlorida




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cheap external hard drive hookup ??

[jfMac]

Some time ago, someone (I think it was Bruce) recommended an
inexpensive cable/adapter for hooking up external dives. I thought I
bookmarked it, but...

Does anybody know if the link below is an example of the reccomended
solution?

http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=2020cat=CBL

and if not what is the solution? Thanks.

jfMac

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Re: cheap external hard drive hookup ??

[Len Gerstel]

On Dec 24, 2009, at 11:09 AM, jfMac wrote:

 Some time ago, someone (I think it was Bruce) recommended an
 inexpensive cable/adapter for hooking up external dives. I thought I
 bookmarked it, but...

 Does anybody know if the link below is an example of the reccomended
 solution?

 http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=2020cat=CBL

 and if not what is the solution? Thanks.

 jfMac

Yep, that is it. Probably the exact one Bruce recommended. Geeks.com  
gets a thumbs up from most people here.

Even though the specs say windows only, these work just fine with a  
Mac, no software required.

Len

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Re: cheap external hard drive hookup ??

[Bill Connelly]

Newer Technology USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adapter

The Swiss Army Knife of Disk Connectivity...Turns Any Bare Drive  
Into An External Storage Solution!!


https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/U2NV2SPATA/

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Camino mucho problema

[John Carmonne]

Hi all
I recently started using Camino as my main browser. I really like it over Safari
However I'm getting an annoying glitch on some media items that I try to open

This is an example
http://release.theplatform.com/content.select?pid=5mCzgDf_lCZ3uKBDkKLY2_dqmD4_S0yFUserName=Unknown

 When I click this in the mail that was sent to me the Camino browser gets 
stuck, just flashes forever until I quit Camino. Even if I try to open
in Safari it goes to Camino and seizes. Any ideas?

John Carmonne


Yorba Linda USA

25 kids all named Mac

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Re: cheap external hard drive hookup ??

[John Martz]

On Thu, Dec 24, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Bill Connelly
billycarm...@verizon.net wrote:
 Newer Technology USB 2.0 Universal Drive Adapter

 The Swiss Army Knife of Disk Connectivity...Turns Any Bare Drive
 Into An External Storage Solution!!

 https://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/U2NV2SPATA/


As you can tell at a glance, the main difference among the offerings
for these gadgets is the price you pay for them more than their actual
capabilities.

A while back (don't remember the exact date) I picked up one of these
for something like $9 (??) including shipping from China via ebay. I
doubt there is that much difference in the chipset used in the USB
attached devices.

My guess ... and it's only a guess naturally ... is that the power
supply is a very large percentage of the manufacturing costs of one of
these devices. So IMO it all depends on how much you worry about the
quality of the power supply you are getting. To be frank, I have yet
to try out the PSU that I got with that cheap USB multi-adapter. I
*HAVE* used the adapter, I just chose to power it from another supply.
(See my signature below ;-)

Some people think that the extra hand holding they get from OWC
(macsales.com) makes them well worth the extra premium they charge for
their products. That's a personal call each person has to make, no?

I can say if money was not a consideration for me I'd go with the OWC
gadget. But I just happen to have a thing for indicator lights. I'm
not even sure I care whether they add value or not ...

-irrational john

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Re: What is the shelf life of inkjet ink?

[Dan]

At 8:31 AM -0800 12/24/2009, Jonas Lopez wrote:
I want to buy 1 l of inkjet ink for the printer on my Mac, but this 
$ 40 purchase has a question: what is the shelf life of inkjet ink?

We usually buy a year's worth at a time.

I donno what the actual rated shelf life is, but I've had two year 
old color cartridges refuse to print.

If you are like me, you have been paying very, very, very, high 
prices for black ink, so why not find and buy enough to last a long 
time if the shelf life is ok.

There is just NO reason for blank ink to be expensive.  Depends on 
the printer, if course, but there are a lot of high quality 3rd party 
cartridges out there, many in the $3 to $8 range.  You can also 
refill your own cartridges.  Ink when bought in a large bottle is 
cheap!

Currently, we use a lot of GG cartridges.   Back in the day, I used 
to refill my HP Deskwriter's cartridges.  I used Schaeffer Scrip Jet 
Blank Ink.  A small bottle cost $8 and would refill the cartridge 
about four times.  Real HP carts were $22+.

- Dan.
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no video on restart on G5 Quad. Help?

[Hal]

Hi all.
I'm new to the group, but have been a member of some of the other LEM
groups for a while.
I've been having a problem with my G5 Quad that I hope I can get some
insight on.

It's running 10.5.8, though this problem has been consistent across OS
versions.
When I restart the G5, it reboots fine, but there is no video. If I
use screen sharing to log in from another computer, I can see that it
booted fine, but it won't send video to the DVI port on the video
card.

This behavior is exhibited with several DVI displays (I've tried 3),
including an APple 23 Cinema display. I've also tried 2 video cards,
the original PCIe 6600, as well as a flashed Radeon X1900.

If I tell it to shut down, and then start it up, it works fine.

Any ideas?
Thanks,
-Hal

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Retirement time 4 HP LaserJet6 MP?

[Stanton Mitrany]

Our HP LaserJet6 MP is producing secondary images following the  
initial image of text within general blotching concentrated primarily  
down the middle of each page.

Is this inexpensively remedied, or is it time to retire this faithful  
servant?

Merry Christmas, and thanks!

stanton

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Re: Retirement time 4 HP LaserJet6 MP?

[Len Gerstel]

On Dec 24, 2009, at 1:56 PM, Stanton Mitrany wrote:

 Our HP LaserJet6 MP is producing secondary images following the
 initial image of text within general blotching concentrated primarily
 down the middle of each page.

 Is this inexpensively remedied, or is it time to retire this faithful
 servant?

Odds are very good that the toner cart is going bad. So, is the  
printer worth another cart? I have never been a fan of the P series  
of laserjets. But if it works and you are happy with it, a new cart  
is not that expensive.

Len

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Re: Retirement time 4 HP LaserJet6 MP?

[Fabian Fang]

On Dec 24, 2009, at 10:56 AM, Stanton Mitrany wrote:

 Our HP LaserJet6 MP is producing secondary images following the
 initial image of text within general blotching concentrated primarily
 down the middle of each page.

 Is this inexpensively remedied, or is it time to retire this faithful
 servant?


Check out the following, and consider their self-repair kit:

http://www.fixyourownprinter.com/kits/hp/K32

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Re: no video on restart on G5 Quad. Help?

[Clark Martin]

Hal wrote:
 Hi all.
 I'm new to the group, but have been a member of some of the other LEM
 groups for a while.
 I've been having a problem with my G5 Quad that I hope I can get some
 insight on.
 
 It's running 10.5.8, though this problem has been consistent across OS
 versions.
 When I restart the G5, it reboots fine, but there is no video. If I
 use screen sharing to log in from another computer, I can see that it
 booted fine, but it won't send video to the DVI port on the video
 card.
 
 This behavior is exhibited with several DVI displays (I've tried 3),
 including an APple 23 Cinema display. I've also tried 2 video cards,
 the original PCIe 6600, as well as a flashed Radeon X1900.
 
 If I tell it to shut down, and then start it up, it works fine.

When logged in remotely check System Preferences / Display and see what 
video mode it's trying to display in (width x heighth  and vert sync 
speed).  It's possible it is not one the monitor can display.  Try 
changing it to something you know the monitor can handle.

Also check your PRAM battery, it may be dead or dying.


-- 
Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting

I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway

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Re: Retirement time 4 HP LaserJet6 MP?

[Clark Martin]

Stanton Mitrany wrote:
 Our HP LaserJet6 MP is producing secondary images following the  
 initial image of text within general blotching concentrated primarily  
 down the middle of each page.
 
 Is this inexpensively remedied, or is it time to retire this faithful  
 servant?

That's usually a sign the fuser needs replacing.

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Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting

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Re: Retirement time 4 HP LaserJet6 MP?

[Dan]

At 1:56 PM -0500 12/24/2009, Stanton Mitrany wrote:
Our HP LaserJet6 MP is producing secondary images following the 
initial image of text within general blotching concentrated primarily 
down the middle of each page.

Is this inexpensively remedied, or is it time to retire this faithful 
servant?

Does that generation laser printer support cleaning pages and such? 
If it does, do that, quite a few times if necessary.

- Dan.
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Re: cheap external hard drive hookup ??

[Bruce Johnson]

On Dec 24, 2009, at 9:09 AM, jfMac wrote:

 Some time ago, someone (I think it was Bruce) recommended an
 inexpensive cable/adapter for hooking up external dives. I thought I
 bookmarked it, but...

 Does anybody know if the link below is an example of the reccomended
 solution?

 http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=2020cat=CBL


That would have been me, and yep, that's the one.

As for the stability of the power supply, it's been great...we've had  
one of that exact items in the office for about three years now and it  
gets used on a weekly basis, I'd wager, and we've never had any  
problems using it on a Mac or PC with any supported drive.

The difference between this one and the Newer Technologies one is the  
package, the logo and the color of the plastic.

Be aware, these do come in two flavors: one with SATA support and one  
without. If you need to support both types, make sure you get the  
right one.

-- 
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Wherever you go, there you are B. Banzai,  PhD

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Blue White Quartz Extreme Support?

[Jonas Ulrich]

Hi all! Is there a way to enable Quartz Extreme on a Blue  White 450MHZ G3?
It would have a 128MB PCI video card. Thanks!

-Jonas

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Safari Using up Disc Space

[Erik Hancock]

Anyone having an issue with Safari consuming large volumes of HD space?

I was given messages that I was out of HD space ­ in finder I was down to
300 MB  but when I quit safari I found that I immediately had 3 GB then I
was back to 5GB.

I¹ll do a restart to clear the cache but running this from the pref menu had
no effect.

In the old days you could tell an app how much space to use.  Is there
anything I can do ­ I don¹t do a lot of video but I¹ve seen comments on
Flash bloat and wonder if all the stupid active ads and other junk is
contributing.  

Any suggestions ­ I can clean up a few more GB but won¹t that just get
gobbled up?

Erik

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Re: Safari Using up Disc Space

[Dan]

At 5:38 PM -0500 12/24/2009, Erik Hancock wrote:
Anyone having an issue with Safari consuming large volumes of HD space?

Mac?  Speed?  RAM?  OS?  Safari vers?

I was given messages that I was out of HD space - in finder I was 
down to 300 MB  but when I quit safari I found that I immediately 
had 3 GB then I was back to 5GB.

Safari 4, on faster Macs, can suck up quite a bit of disk space for 
it's page previews.  That's in addition to the normal cache and xtra 
virtual memory space (if you have a lot of windows  tabs open).  But 
I've never seen it use gigs...

What else do you have loaded?  Plug-ins, InputManagers, etc

In the old days you could tell an app how much space to use.  Is 
there anything I can do - I don't do a lot of video but I've seen 
comments on Flash bloat and wonder if all the stupid active ads and 
other junk is contributing.

Activity Monitor will let you watch things.

Flash is piggy and has memory leaks.  A blocker such as ClickToFlash 
will make your browsing experience so much better

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Re: Blue White Quartz Extreme Support?

[Kris Tilford]

On Dec 24, 2009, at 3:43 PM, Jonas Ulrich wrote:

 Is there a way to enable Quartz Extreme on a Blue  White 450MHZ G3?  
 It would have a 128MB PCI video card.

With any Radeon card or some nVidia you can enable QE using PCI  
Extreme 3.1:

http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/8979/pci-extreme%21


On Dec 24, 2009, at 4:55 PM, John Niven wrote:

 I emailed this guy:

 http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=150392736247ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

 and he claims that NVidia cards are natively supported, though ATI  
 is not (which I can attest to).

I believe he's flashing the nVidia card with special firmware that  
enables QE  Core Graphics. I don't believe this is an Xserve Apple  
video card.

 The card costs more than a whole BW though.

You can likely buy a PC nVidia FX5200 or FX5500 and flash it to Mac  
for much cheaper. MacElite has ROMs I believe? These would be the ONLY  
PCI cards with Core Image support. QE is OK on a BW or Yikes as long  
as the card is the only card and is in the special video PCI slot.  
Core Image will be very slow on any PCI video, it really needs AGP or  
PCIe.

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Re: Camino mucho problema

[Cliff Rediger]

On Dec 24, 9:00 am, Len Gerstel lgers...@gmail.com wrote:

  I recently started using Camino as my main browser. I really like
  it over Safari
  However I'm getting an annoying glitch on some media items that I
  try to open

  This is an examplehttp://release.theplatform.com/content.select?
  pid=5mCzgDf_lCZ3uKBDkKLY2_dqmD4_S0yFUserName=Unknown

   When I click this in the mail that was sent to me the Camino
  browser gets stuck, just flashes forever until I quit Camino.

I'm running Camino Version 1.6.9Int (1.8.1.23 2009081518) as my
primary browser
and have not upgraded to 2+ because of a glitch with 1Password.

I'm also running Flip4Mac. Camino opens the suggested wmv file in a
double window
but plays fine then in the second window (super tune by Elvis)
what version of Camino are you running John?

Also, you must have a preference set somewhere that pushes the file to
Camino
if it doesn't open in Safari.

When I read this thread in Safari and open your link, I get the play
bar only until the video loads and then
the video plays without the play bar.

hth
Cliff

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Re: What is the shelf life of inkjet ink?

[Thunder 1]

Jonas,
As one who has worked in a prepress printing facility for many years
and was in charge of large format printers and their
consumables, I can tell you a little about inks and inkjet cartridges.
I have 2 currently working inkjet printers at home (I'm
retired), both HPs. I have been buying bulk ink (both black and color)
forever, due to the fact that printer manufacturers
make their money on consumable products, especially ink, and because
it is not only prohibitively expensive for me to
buy new cartridges, I prefer to do simple things like refilling ink
cartridges myself.

I have found over the years that bulk ink can last a fairly long time,
if kept at room temperature, sealed well, and kept
out of the sunlight. I usually store my ink in a cardboard box, in a
cabinet in my computer room. I have used ink that
has been sitting around for up to 2-3 years without any problem,
either in the cartridge operation or in the final printed
product.

Also, with proper care and maintenance, an inkjet cartridge can last a
long time. I can usually refill a cartridge about
6-10 times before it finally just refuses to cooperate. One of the
main problems I have run into is the cartridge drying
out due to unuse, but this is easily remedied, again with the proper
revival techniques.

I buy my bulk ink from Inksell.com, a company I trust and have been
using for years. They have reasonable prices,
their instructions are easy to understand, they will assist you with
any questions or problems you are having, and
they have specials from time to time on their products. I would
highly recommend them for your ink/cartridges needs.

Hope this helps.
Bill

On Dec 24, 9:31 am, Jonas Lopez jonaslo...@yahoo.com wrote:
 I want to buy 1 l of inkjet ink for the printer on my Mac, but this $ 40 
 purchase has a question: what is the shelf life of inkjet ink?

 If you are like me, you have been paying very, very, very, high prices for 
 black ink, so why not find and buy enough to last a long time if the shelf 
 life is ok.

 jml

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Re: Safari Using up Disc Space

[Erik Hancock]

Just Learned about Flash Block and will try it ­ that Adobe flash keeps
killing the Browsers as well -

Was at 300Mb now at 6.58GB after shutting down browsers and restarting.
That¹s quite a big cache  - will try to reopen sites and shee what happens.

In activity Monitor ­ about 102% of Cpu goes to the Browser -  not sure how
that happens.

Left off the machine info since I thought that was extraneous.  Have G4
AGP/1.5GHz/ 2MB ram/OS 10.4/ Safari 4.04
No real add-ons for safari -  Sometimes use Firefox with ad blocker.
Any other reccomendatiosn for add-ons?

I usually have 10 or so pages with multiple tabs.  I also tend to leave the
app open rather than closing and reloading frequently ­ but it happens about
one a week due to app freezing ­ now think it is due to lack of HD space ­
which seems odd for this app to be using so much space.

Thanks
Erik



From: Kasey Smith kasm...@gmail.com
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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 16:14:11 -0700
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Subject: Re: Safari Using up Disc Space

Have you tried FlashBlock?
On Dec 24, 2009, at 3:38 PM, Erik Hancock wrote:

  Anyone having an issue with Safari consuming large volumes of HD space?
  
  I was given messages that I was out of HD space ­ in finder I was down to 300
 MB  but when I quit safari I found that I immediately had 3 GB then I was back
 to 5GB.
  
  I¹ll do a restart to clear the cache but running this from the pref menu had
 no effect.
  
  In the old days you could tell an app how much space to use.  Is there
 anything I can do ­ I don¹t do a lot of video but I¹ve seen comments on Flash
 bloat and wonder if all the stupid active ads and other junk is contributing.
  
  Any suggestions ­ I can clean up a few more GB but won¹t that just get
 gobbled up?
  
  Erik


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Re: Safari Using up Disc Space

[Bill Connelly]

On Dec 25, 2009, at 12:01 AM, Erik Hancock wrote:

 In activity Monitor – about 102% of Cpu goes to the Browser -  not  
 sure how that happens.

 

I think its because:


 I usually have 10 or so pages with multiple tabs.  I also tend to  
 leave the app open rather than closing and reloading frequently –  
 but it happens about one a week due to app freezing – now think it  
 is due to lack of HD space – which seems odd for this app to be  
 using so much space.

Adobe Flash eats up cpu ... I know that dual processors have 100% cpu  
usage capability ... not sure why a single processor would register  
such.

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Re: no video on restart on G5 Quad. Help?

[Ted Treen]

Clark Martin wrote:
 Hal wrote:

 Hi all.
 I'm new to the group, but have been a member of some of the other LEM
 groups for a while.
 I've been having a problem with my G5 Quad that I hope I can get some
 insight on.

 It's running 10.5.8, though this problem has been consistent across OS
 versions.
 When I restart the G5, it reboots fine, but there is no video. If I
 use screen sharing to log in from another computer, I can see that it
 booted fine, but it won't send video to the DVI port on the video
 card.

 This behavior is exhibited with several DVI displays (I've tried 3),
 including an APple 23 Cinema display. I've also tried 2 video cards,
 the original PCIe 6600, as well as a flashed Radeon X1900.

 If I tell it to shut down, and then start it up, it works fine.
  
 When logged in remotely check System Preferences / Display and see what
 video mode it's trying to display in (width x heighth  and vert sync
 speed).  It's possible it is not one the monitor can display.  Try
 changing it to something you know the monitor can handle.

 Also check your PRAM battery, it may be dead or dying.



Clark is (as usual) correct.
I would add that on many Macs (from the LC series through to G3 and G4 
series) I've seen this behaviour shown when the PRAM battery is dead - 
most recently on our old G4 QS at work.
Our IT guys (all Windows people) told the user it had a dead MoBo!
I bought in a new 3.6v halfAA and bingo:- a fully functioning QS.
Now they refer all Mac problems to me - or they will do, if any arise.

Ted

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