Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)?

2011-06-06 Thread Ted Treen
From: Dan dantear...@gmail.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Sunday, 5 June 2011, 19:22 Subject: Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)? At 1:05 PM -0400 6/5/2011, John Callahan wrote: My G4 works flawlessly while I am using it but if I leave it running it

Beige G3 Woes

2011-06-06 Thread skyking918
This probably belongs on the unsupported OS X group, but as I cannot get to it at the moment, I'm requesting help here. My Beige G3 has been relatively trouble-free until today. It has a Sonnet G4 500 Mhz processor and 768 MB of RAM, and, thanks to XPost Facto,has been running OS 10.4.11with a

Re: Beige G3 Woes

2011-06-06 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jun 6, 2011, at 4:17 PM, skyking...@verizon.net wrote: So i decided to try to reinstall OS X using XPost Facto. This time the DVD read the disk and I chose the Archive and Install option. This worked. Now I downloaded the 10.4.11 combined update from Apple and attempted to install it,

Re: Applications fail to launch

2011-06-06 Thread Jonas Ulrich
So I finally got around to installing OS9 and updating the firmware. As soon as I booted into OS9, it said the Setup Assistant had crashed, with an error type 2. I went ahead and updated the firmware, and rebooted into OSX. No change. Everything still crashes. Any other ideas? -Jonas -- You

Re: Applications fail to launch

2011-06-06 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 6, 2011, at 8:42 PM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: I went ahead and updated the firmware, and rebooted into OSX. No change. Everything still crashes. Have you Safe Booted OS X? Have you run Disk UtilityVerify Disk on the HD? Have you reinstalled the latest Combo Update? -- You received this

Re: Beige G3 Woes

2011-06-06 Thread valter.prahlad
Il giorno 7-06-2011 1:17, skyking...@verizon.net ha scritto: My Beige G3 has been relatively trouble-free until today. I'm no big expert, but I'll try some suggestions (I loved my Beige G3, BTW :-). The computer would not re-boot into OS 10, even after several tries (gray screen, spinning

Re: Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)?

2011-06-06 Thread stevo137
I had that same problem. I was told to check your memory cards. On Jun 5, 12:05 pm, John Callahan jcalla...@stny.rr.com wrote: My G4 works flawlessly while I am using it but if I leave it running   it freezes and a message comes up that says you need to restart your   computer. Anyone have any

Re: Applications fail to launch

2011-06-06 Thread Jonas Ulrich
I have tried all that. The same result. Thanks for the idea though! -Jonas -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml

Re: Applications fail to launch

2011-06-06 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 6, 2011, at 10:39 PM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: I have tried all that. The same result.(Everything still crashes.) And what do the crash logs show? Let me guess, Console crashes so you can't see the crash logs? Have you booted verbose (Cmd-v) and looked for anything out of the ordinary?

Re: Applications fail to launch

2011-06-06 Thread Jonas Ulrich
I haven't tried the logs yet, will try that tomorrow. I testing all the ram, by removing one chip at a time, and applications crash on both OSX, and OS9, which are on different hard drives. I'll try verbose mode and report back. Thanks! -Jonas -- You received this message because you are a

Re: Applications fail to launch

2011-06-06 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 7, 2011, at 12:39 AM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: applications crash on both OSX, and OS9, which are on different hard drives. Same ATA bus? Are you sure the jumper settings on the HDs are correct? A bad ATA cable could be the problem. You can use the cable bus the optical drive are on