MDD Dual quick fan noise fix

2012-02-16 Thread Peter Devlin
I have a G4 MDD dual 1.25 which I use for the internet and mail etc - has four internal hard drives and over a period of time the cpu temp has risen to the point where even at idle the main fan kicks up a noisy notch - the cpu temp for the kick up seems to be around the 56 celsius mark - idle cpu

G5 service

2012-02-16 Thread JohnV
I'm about to dive in and replace the power supply in a G5. Caveats? suggestions? warnings? JV -- 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

Re: G5 service

2012-02-16 Thread M Christol
Did you price the repair by Apple or an authorized repair place? On 2/16/12 1:19 PM, JohnV wrote: I'm about to dive in and replace the power supply in a G5. Caveats? suggestions? warnings? JV -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3,

Re: G5 service

2012-02-16 Thread JohnV
DIY. not thinking it's either a logic board or a PS issue... if it's the PS I'm good for less. If it's a logic board, I think it's more practical to replace the machine... On Feb 16, 2012, at 1:38 PM, M Christol wrote: Did you price the repair by Apple or an authorized repair place? On

Re: MDD Dual quick fan noise fix

2012-02-16 Thread Martin N
Lo, At 10:23 16/02/2012, you wrote: I have a G4 MDD dual 1.25 which I use for the internet and mail etc - has four internal hard drives and over a period of time the cpu temp has risen to the point where even at idle the main fan kicks up a noisy notch - the cpu temp for the kick up seems to be

Re: MDD Dual quick fan noise fix

2012-02-16 Thread Wayne Stewart
Another possible option for people running OSX on a dual PPC is using the CHUD utilities 3.5.2 to turn on nap mode. Some people have had problems with it but it works great for me. On my G4 dual overclocked to 1.5 ghz the CPU idle temp went from 57C to 35C and of course the fans slowed down.

Re: Beige G3 RAM

2012-02-16 Thread Nathan Templeton
Hey Anthony, Sorry for the late reply to this message. Do not know if you have found an answer or not yet. For the most part, what you have been told is correct. You do need low density ram for the sticks to be recognized. OS 9 will see 768mgs max with the beige series of macs. However, I

Re: Beige G3 RAM

2012-02-16 Thread Kris Tilford
On Feb 17, 2012, at 12:51 AM, Nathan Templeton wrote: However, I found in my experience when I was stationed in Turkey around seven years ago now with my beige G3/300 I had and entire gig showing under 10.2. Are you certain this was a Beige and not a Blue White G3 300MHz? The BW had