Re: G5 quad

2012-01-14 Thread Clark Martin
On Jan 14, 2012, at 8:47 PM, Tina K. wrote: > On 2012/01/14 11:17, Kris Tilford so eloquently wrote: >> When Apple replaces a motherboard they make the serial # match > > Not always. I purchased a 'refurb' iMac G4 that initially had a matching SN, > but it (along with others like it) had a prob

Re: G5 quad

2012-01-14 Thread Tina K.
On 2012/01/14 11:17, Kris Tilford so eloquently wrote: When Apple replaces a motherboard they make the serial # match Not always. I purchased a 'refurb' iMac G4 that initially had a matching SN, but it (along with others like it) had a problem with some flashed code that kept the display from

Re: Mail problem

2012-01-14 Thread Barney Guzzo
Thanks a million. I'll give it a try tonight. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 14, 2012, at 7:02 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > > On Jan 12, 2012, at 5:27 PM, Baldassare Guzzo wrote: > >> PM G4 933 OS 10.4.11. Mail 3.6. Something new and weird just started. >> When I open Mail, I now get two copie

Re: ie 5.0

2012-01-14 Thread tina
Den Lørdag, 14/1 2012, 07:21, Kris Tilford skrev: > On Jan 8, 2012, at 5:55 AM, Charles Lenington wrote: > >> Anyone still have 5.0 easy to find? > > Easiest likely solution: > > Safari>Preferences>Advanced Tab > > Check box "Show Develop menu in menu bar" > > Develop menu>User Agent>IE Explorer x.

Re: Mail problem

2012-01-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 12, 2012, at 5:27 PM, Baldassare Guzzo wrote: > PM G4 933 OS 10.4.11. Mail 3.6. Something new and weird just started. When > I open Mail, I now get two copies of all my Gmail mail. If I delete one, the > other just disappears and sends me to the oldest mail in the list. So If I > d

Re: going to an Intel iMac

2012-01-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 9, 2012, at 4:04 PM, Lawrence David Eden wrote: > > Now I have a few questions: > > I did not "migrate" my USER folder. Is this what was meant by allowing > Migration Assistant to create a new user? No. People are SERIOUSLY overthinking this, IMO. Run Migration Assistant. Select the

Re: G5 quad

2012-01-14 Thread Jack Countryman
If you can go look at it in person, as opposed to buying blind over the net, I'd look very carefully at the liquid cooling system, checking for any evidence that coolant has started to leak, or run down inside the case. Best option might be to pull processors and the power supply to look close

Re: G5 quad

2012-01-14 Thread JohnV
On Jan 14, 2012, at 1:17 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Jan 14, 2012, at 10:58 AM, Len Gerstel wrote: Any reason why a late 2005 G5 quad would show a different serial number on the side label vs the system profile info screen? I'm looking to buy. Rough quick guess is a replaced motherboard. I

Re: ie 5.0

2012-01-14 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 8, 2012, at 5:55 AM, Charles Lenington wrote: Anyone still have 5.0 easy to find? Easiest likely solution: Safari>Preferences>Advanced Tab Check box "Show Develop menu in menu bar" Develop menu>User Agent>IE Explorer x.x Once you set Safari to IE Explorer it "should" work. -- You

Re: G5 quad

2012-01-14 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 14, 2012, at 10:58 AM, Len Gerstel wrote: Any reason why a late 2005 G5 quad would show a different serial number on the side label vs the system profile info screen? I'm looking to buy. Rough quick guess is a replaced motherboard. Is this a liquid cooled unit? With the reported pro

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2012-01-14 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 10, 2012, at 10:37 PM, seeker wrote: i have fallen head over heals for mac osx and would like to keep these machines as such You'll need to get a Radeon PCI card for the dedicated video PCI slot, and then run Tiger 10.4.11 with PCI Extreme 3.1 to enable Quartz Extreme. You can d

Re: OS9

2012-01-14 Thread Dan
At 2:34 AM +0100 1/9/2012, Valter Prahlad wrote: In OSX, memory allocation is dynamic: i.e, the O.S. gives any program the memory it requires, when it's required (more or less). In OS9 (and previous), you had to set the memory amount for each program. To set it up, click on the program's icon, s

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2012-01-14 Thread Dan
At 8:37 PM -0800 1/10/2012, seeker wrote: what if any would be the ideal version of macOS x to install on g3 b&w Mac OS X 10.4.11, Tiger. Works great on SmurfTowers. Disable Dashboard. It's a big real memory hog and the Smurf is limited. Depending on the smurfyspeed, you may wish to disable

Re: ie 5.0

2012-01-14 Thread Dan
At 5:55 AM -0600 1/8/2012, Charles Lenington wrote: The oklahoma employment security commission insists on using only ie 5.0 to file for unemployment. Of course the link they proved only offers 8 or 9. I did find a 5.2 version but it is unstable and either hangs up or crashes. Anyone still have

Re: G5 quad

2012-01-14 Thread JohnV
On Jan 14, 2012, at 11:23 AM, JohnV wrote: Any reason why a late 2005 G5 quad would show a different serial number on the side label vs the system profile info screen? I'm looking to buy. On Jan 14, 2012, at 11:58 AM, Len Gerstel wrote: Rough quick guess is a replaced motherboard. Is this a

Re: G5 quad

2012-01-14 Thread Len Gerstel
On Jan 14, 2012, at 11:23 AM, JohnV wrote: Any reason why a late 2005 G5 quad would show a different serial number on the side label vs the system profile info screen? I'm looking to buy. Rough quick guess is a replaced motherboard. Is this a liquid cooled unit? With the reported problems

Re: OS9

2012-01-14 Thread JohnV
It has been a whiole since I ran classic OS after a few minutes remembering-by-sight-touch what's in there... I re-found the memory allocation thing... got it going! thanks JV On Jan 8, 2012, at 8:34 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote: Il giorno 8-01-2012 22:37, JohnV ha scritto: seems ok unt

Mail problem

2012-01-14 Thread Baldassare Guzzo
PM G4 933 OS 10.4.11. Mail 3.6. Something new and weird just started. When I open Mail, I now get two copies of all my Gmail mail. If I delete one, the other just disappears and sends me to the oldest mail in the list. So If I delete the mail to slowly, I end up deleting mail that I wa

Re: OS 9.2.2 fro G4 MDD

2012-01-14 Thread Charles Lenington
On 1/10/12 10:00 AM, Oliver Fairhall wrote: On 10/01/12 02:21, t...@io.com wrote: snip--- I currently have an ATI card, but have ordered a used TI 4600. Should be OK. I don't know if I have the latest drivers though. Nvidia don't seem to host these any more. I found a shop which has a dri

Magsafe Power Adapter mod. A1344, need help

2012-01-14 Thread willy
I have been asked to fix or replace this adapter. Have any of you worked on one? If I can't fix, do any of you have one for sale?Thanks Wm. -- 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 Mac

Re: G4 or G5?

2012-01-14 Thread Cameron Kaiser
> > > My G4 MDD 1.25 was 295 watts. My PPC G5 dual 2.7 averages 410 watts > > > and my Mac Pro is 98 watts both doing the same work most of the time, > > > however the G5's are much faster then the G4's. The G5's with the fans > > > running most of the time suck up a lot of juice. > > > > here's a

Re: G4 or G5?

2012-01-14 Thread John Carmonne
On Jan 11, 2012, at 3:25 AM, faithie999 wrote: > here's a dumb question--how are you measuring power consumption? > > thanks > > ken > > > >> >> My G4 MDD 1.25 was 295 watts. My PPC G5 dual 2.7 averages 410 watts >> and my Mac Pro is 98 watts both doing the same work most of the time, >> h

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2012-01-14 Thread seeker
might again have one of these bad boys lined up for myself, and before i forgo an install of slackintosh, i would like to ask the g- men... what if any would be the ideal version of macOS x to install on g3 b&w with maxed ram? i am a huge fan of opensource, but i have fallen head over heals f

Re: G4 or G5?

2012-01-14 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 10-01-2012 8:36, arichic...@gmail.com ha scritto: > 1. I have had chances to grab various G5's for between $100 and $150. I think it's a very good investment. I'm using a G5 DP 2.7 right now, and it's a very fine machine (much more responsive than the G4 1.4 GHz I was using before). A G

Re: OS 9.2.2 fro G4 MDD

2012-01-14 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 10-01-2012 17:00, Oliver Fairhall ha scritto: > I currently have an ATI card, but have ordered a used TI 4600. Should be > OK. I don't know if I have the latest drivers though. Nvidia don't seem > to host these any more. I have been using a GF Ti 4600 on a G4 DA, and it worked just fine

Re: going to an Intel iMac

2012-01-14 Thread Lawrence David Eden
I just tried using Migration Assistant: I am trying to get my Intel iMac to look like my DA G4. I used my external FW drive that has a recent CCC of my DA's HD. I allowed Migration Assistant to create a New User Account instead of updating an existing account. Now I have a few questions: I d

Re: going to an Intel iMac

2012-01-14 Thread Stephen E. Bodnar
On 1/8/12 4:52 PM, Tina K. wrote: On 2012/01/07 09:54, Stephen E. Bodnar so eloquently wrote: Very well said. Having done this very same migration numerous times, there is one gotcha - let Migration Assistant create the new user on the new (target) machine and not update an existing account. Oth

Re: OS9

2012-01-14 Thread Valter Prahlad
Il giorno 8-01-2012 22:37, JohnV ha scritto: > seems ok until I try to sitch photos at which time it spous a warning > box claiming I ned to allocate more memory to the app. > SYSTEM PROFILE says QTVR has 16M assigned. > this G5 has 2G so where/how do I fix this? Ah, the good ole MacOS times! :-D

Re: Firefox

2012-01-14 Thread Mel
Bill, Thanks.  I'll give it a try. Mel --- On Sun, 1/8/12, Bill Connelly wrote: From: Bill Connelly Subject: Re: Firefox To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Date: Sunday, January 8, 2012, 8:13 AM On Jan 7, 2012, at 11:08 PM, Mel wrote: > I don't see any "address bar" in TFF.   Where is it? > >

ie 5.0

2012-01-14 Thread Charles Lenington
The oklahoma employment security commission insists on using only ie 5.0 to file for unemployment. Of course the link they proved only offers 8 or 9. I did find a 5.2 version but it is unstable and either hangs up or crashes. Anyone still have 5.0 easy to find? In the mean time... I'm going to

G5 quad

2012-01-14 Thread JohnV
Any reason why a late 2005 G5 quad would show a different serial number on the side label vs the system profile info screen? I'm looking to buy. John V -- 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 foc