. Then there are the laptops that provide
little or no power to their USB ports.
The problem with USB is that it isn't, Universal.
Or as I like to put it, the wonderful thing about Standards is that everyone
does them differently.
Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
I'm a designated
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good one) but not totally dead and the computer wouldn't boot. When I removed
the battery it would boot fine.
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swap would do this?
Spotlight re-indexing the HDDs?
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On Nov 7, 2011, at 3:26 AM, Jeff Bequette wrote:
This may be out of our bailiwick on this list, but here goes:
DP 1.8 G5, running Leopard 10.5.8, 4 gigs ram, hardwired into the
Airport extreme (saucer, model A1034)
an iPad 1
2 or 3 iphones (if daughter is home)
2 mac laptops (when both
On Nov 7, 2011, at 11:08 AM, Valter Prahlad wrote:
Why making a card with two display ports...
and not driving two monitors...? ;-)
Well, there are cards with three display ports that only drive two monitors.
Specifically Radeons that have two VGA and a S-Video out.
Clark Martin
On Nov 25, 2011, at 4:48 PM, Lawrence David Eden lde...@comcast.net wrote:
Greetings Listers,
I am using a NetGear wireless router in my home, and quite often, especially
when my children are at home.the router needs to be reset in order for me
to get online. If I unplug the router
On Dec 16, 2011, at 12:59 AM, David W. Morris bbh...@gmail.com wrote:
If you don't have a camcorder with firewire output, how do most Mac users
input their analog composite video into their Mac's for editing? I have a
couple older Hi-8mm camcorders and a ton of family tapes that I want to
On Dec 21, 2011, at 10:25 PM, Roger Faulkner rfaulkne...@gmail.com wrote:
m8493 drive won't open. HD wiped and went to install new OS. Pro, Chicklet
and Mcally keyboards all fail to open drive. No paper clip access. Ideas?
Thanks
Try holding the mouse down on boot.
Check the cables to the
On Dec 31, 2011, at 3:45 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Dec 31, 2011, at 2:45 PM, faithie999 wrote:
a friend gave me a dead iMac 17 G5 iSight. the symptom is:
when i push the power button, the pilot light comes on for about a
second, then the fan comes on at full speed, then about a second
On Jan 2, 2012, at 9:40 AM, gira93 wrote:
Hello everyone!
Hi would like to know if someone here still uses his Powermac g4,
I have a g4 quicksilver (733mhz, 630mb ram) that i still use (and
love) today for web browsing, web administration and youtube, it works
very well with 10.4.11.
On Jan 2, 2012, at 3:03 PM, faithie999 wrote:
which are the power supply caps on the logic board? there are
probably 20+ caps in all on the board.
Roughly in the center bottom of the logic board are several groups of caps
(1000uF, 16V IIRC), about 10-12 caps in a group. I think there are
On Jan 4, 2012, at 5:20 PM, Tom wrote:
In short, we're right back where we started, no matter what we do.
Is there anything else we might try, or should we just be resigned to
the fact that one of our four Macs just doesn't want to play with the
other three?
No you shouldn't be resigned.
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 problem
On Jan 29, 2012, at 2:23 PM, Bruce Ryan wrote:
G4 Cube and Quicksilver both donated and for use for the 16-yr old kid to
reverse explore Apple/Mac have newly installed 10.4.11. Both accept Airport.
Both show and allow a choice of network (my home) but show an error message.
Error
On Feb 8, 2012, at 1:38 PM, Gene Henley wrote:
I have a Quicksilver G4 with Tiger. I installed OS 9.2.1. I can boot into OS
9.2.1 if I hold the C key down. But if I try to boot into my OSX,The screen
says The system software on the startup disk only functions on the original
media,not if
On Jan 31, 2012, at 10:20 PM, Stephen Conrad khel...@gmail.com wrote:
OK, back in the day I had Silverlight 1.0 installed on a different Mac and I
thought I'd put it on my MDD G4 (OS X 10.5.8) as one program (Elmedia Player)
has Silverlight listed in preferences. Every site that lists it for
On Feb 14, 2012, at 5:42 PM, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote:
You've made an error with the description. All the 350MHz iMacs had Firewire
ports. The fastest iMac without a Firewire port was the 333MHz, which is what
I assume you have?
That OSA common misconception, there are indeed
On Feb 15, 2012, at 9:03 AM, Mac User #330250 wrote:
-- Original message --
Subject: Re: G3 + Tiger: iTune 9?
Date:Wednesday, 15. February 2012
From:David W. Morris bbh...@gmail.com
To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
Too lazy to check if
the 350MHz G3 PowerMac
On Feb 15, 2012, at 1:59 PM, Geke wrote:
Among all the talk about upgrading, I want to warn you that this iMac
is *not* going to play YouTube very smoothly, even with the suggested
RAM upgrade. It's a great computer not just for simple things but also
very complicated ones, but Flash video
On Feb 15, 2012, at 5:51 AM, Gene Henley mhenl...@verizon.net wrote:
Now,on to what I can do with this beauty. I intend to put in max ide
drive,max ram,and replace optical drive.
I intend to install either Panther or Tiger with Classic. Tiger may not work
properly. If I must jump through
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On Mar 20, 2012, at 2:32 PM, rumble rum...@metrocast.net wrote:
it seems to me that my old g4 mdd fan noise has gotten louder.
is there anything i can do to get it to quiet down again?
Clean out the dust.
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On Apr 10, 2012, at 5:45 PM, Baudais Michael m...@baudais.ca wrote:
.
3) I removed the CPUs and cooling systems, and replaced the thermal paste on
the CPUs. That helped dramatically - both CPUs dropped 20C. But, A is still
hotter than B by the same
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On Apr 25, 2012, at 10:02 AM, Jeff Bequette jbeque...@tconl.com wrote:
You didn't list your version on iTunes, which is important. I'm running
10.6.1(iTunes) on a dual 1.8 G5, Sys 10.5.8, : talking to iPhone 4s, may
have to get and test a new ipod..
On Apr 26, 2012, at 12:38 PM, Dan wrote:
On Apr 22, 2012, at 3:39 PM, geraldcornish wrote:
Current setup is Pismo 500MHz/1GB Ram/100GB HDD Tiger 10.4.11 OS 9.2.2
Intention is to upgrade to Dual G4/G5 but keeping Tiger/Classic.
My better half needs to use Pagemaker in classic while using
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On Apr 30, 2012, at 1:22 AM, Deiniol ap Deiniol autolycus.mercat...@gmail.com
wrote:
Yes, just done some Googling.unfortunately none of my (4! -
including one none-worker just bought for spares) Mirror Doors came
with their restore CDsnothing on
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On Apr 30, 2012, at 2:44 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
The one thing that drives me absolutely nucking futz as a IT support person
is :
got an error message (can't remember exact words). (or my favorite: I got
an error, I didn't write it down because it
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On May 2, 2012, at 10:23 AM, Douglas Mencken dougmenc...@gmail.com wrote:
Guys, the DVI and ADC connectors are almost the same. There are cheap
(~$20) adapters. I see no reason to buy another video card just to
plug some other monitor into it.
To plug
On May 3, 2012, at 8:27 AM, Valter Prahlad wrote:
Il giorno 3-05-2012 7:56, a1 ha scritto:
So it would seem that the most powerful G5 I could get and keep using
ADC with no adapter is this one:
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g5/specs/powermac_g5_2.5_dp.h
tm
Keep in
On May 24, 2012, at 8:35 AM, t...@io.com wrote:
On May 23, 11:32 am, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
At 8:25 AM -0700 5/23/2012, t...@io.com wrote:
In the list of devices connected to my router and assigned IP
addresses, everything shows up as I would expect, except a G4 MDD
(10.4.11)
On May 25, 2012, at 9:52 AM, M Christol wrote:
On 5/25/12 12:36 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On May 25, 2012, at 9:11 AM, M Christol wrote:
My trusty G4 450 x2 display is losing blackness - the type shadows in
images are a dark to medium grey.
I am assuming this is the ATI Rage 128 Pro
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On Jun 5, 2012, at 1:03 PM, JoeTaxpayer joetaxpaye...@gmail.com wrote:
First, I am a bit OCD. I got carried away with my love of the G4, and
own 5. One bought new at list price the other 4 off eBay.
Two have power supplies that bit the dust. So three
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On Jun 19, 2012, at 11:00 AM, Alex Sciortino zeosr...@gmail.com wrote:
Open the drive door flap at the Option key boot selector and you will see an
eject button. Grab a paper clip and press the button.
I think you are merging things. If there is a
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On Jul 3, 2012, at 3:02 AM, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote:
Tiger on Intel affords no advantage over Leopard Intel machines don't support
Classic so Leopard is the way to go with the Intel's also Snow Leopard is
the only one that needs Rosetta
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On Jul 8, 2012, at 1:03 AM, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote:
On Friday I received an order form from a vendor to complete and
electronically sign, so I filled out the form, created a secure signature in
Acrobat Pro 9 and applied it to the
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On Jul 14, 2012, at 10:39 PM, W.Adrian D'Alessio fluxstrin...@gmail.com
wrote:
Well if it does not run and there is no release mech. I suppose you take it
apart.
Imagine that, they made them so cheap they even left off the tiny hole ! : D !
On at
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On Aug 22, 2012, at 10:03 AM, JOHN CARMONNE carmo...@aol.com wrote:
I have a G3 iMac 600 OS9.2.2 connected to a Quadra 650 7.5.5 via Ethernet. I
can mount the Quadra HDD on the G3 desk top but I can't get the IMac HDD to
mount on the Quadra desk top
On Aug 27, 2012, at 7:29 PM, smac0031 wrote:
None of this worked. The drive wouldn't open. I tried a paper clip and
that wouldn't work. I tried rebooting the machine and that didn't
help. I gave up and shut the machine down and pried the drive open.
The CD was in chunks. It literally
On Aug 27, 2012, at 10:45 AM, Oliver Fairhall wrote:
I have a G4 MDD (FW 400, not 800 model), which I would like to add SCSI to.
All my PCI slots are taken up. I am mainly using this with OS 9.2.2. I would
like to know what is the best featured/most reliable option for adding SCSI
for
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On Aug 27, 2012, at 8:08 PM, Richard Gerome onecoolka...@earthlink.net wrote:
There is probably only 2 things that could have caused this: 1st the CD
broke going in when the thing comes down to grab the disc by the hole because
of a miss alignment
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On Oct 1, 2012, at 2:11 AM, Valter Prahlad valter.prah...@fastwebnet.it wrote:
Il giorno 30-09-2012 19:06, Dan ha scritto:
I was astonished to discover it sucks 17 Watts when off! :-o
Correction: on a second, more accurate measurement, my G5 seems to
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On Oct 3, 2012, at 12:20 AM, Rock rockie5...@gmail.com wrote:
If you are measuring Direct Current, yes. But you are measuring Alternating
Current so you have to multiply the Volt-Amps by .707 to get the actual power
developed. Volt-Amps are useful in
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On Oct 19, 2012, at 10:42 AM, Bill Connelly billycarmac...@verizon.net wrote:
Will an add-on USB Keyboard function the same at startup?
Some may not if I am not mistaken. Could also depend on how it is connected
... on-board USB vrs a USB PCI card.
On Oct 19, 2012, at 12:16 PM, John Callahan wrote:
A long time ago in an another century, in another millennium I had a MacDraw
application that was just great for relatively simple drawings. I used it for
house drawings, working drawings and so on. Unfortunately current drawing
programs
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On Nov 2, 2012, at 6:58 AM, Buzzby ldshiffty...@gmail.com wrote:
I have another mac besides the Quicksilver.
This is a better one. PowerMac G4 MDD Dual 1.42Ghz 4 hard drives
My problem is I cannot get it to see more than 1gb of memory and online says
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On Nov 15, 2012, at 2:34 AM, Ben Kernan bkpro...@yahoo.com wrote:
I have a g-4 400 (sawtooth ?),1gig ram w/12 40 gig drives. Currently
running 10.4 on the 40. What flavor Linux could I put on the 12, what
freeware would work with it,if any is
On Nov 16, 2012, at 1:05 PM, faithie999 wrote:
i have a mac mini G4 running 10.5.8. yesterday (i thought it was a fluke at
the time) and again just now, it locked up while playing streaming audio in
firefox 3.6.24. the mini was completely unresponsive, so i held the power
button until
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On Dec 6, 2012, at 12:15 PM, JohnV vengbj...@verizon.net wrote:
G5 1.8 dual running 10.4.11.
2 monitors DELL wide and a Westinghouse 1.33
It's all ben real stable but today I see that teh square Westinghouse monitor
has very slight repeating lighter
On Jan 1, 2013, at 4:06 AM, Gary D. wrote:
Pretty far OT but maybe someone can give me a tip to get me off dead center.
I have a new Panasonic TV that is WLAN capable with which I have internet
access (YouTube, etc.) but I have not been able to access my Mac Mini running
10.6.8 so that I
On Jan 1, 2013, at 5:46 PM, Murray wrote:
Thanks for the reply.
I just want to install OS 9 and run it from the machine. My main interest is
to be able to access my old Address Book program from many years ago, I shall
have to pull it off my old 9600/300 Power PC, which is gathering dust
On Jan 16, 2013, at 12:42 PM, Mac User #330250 wrote:
Yesterday I spilled some juice all over my Apple Keyboard. It is the
Aluminium
USB version.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB110LL/B/apple-keyboard-with-numeric-keypad
On Mar 3, 2013, at 2:14 PM, les simo wrote:
Hi all,
I have a G4/350 Sawtooth and will be receiving an iMac G5/2.0 shortly. I wish
to migrate(I hope this is the correct term) IOW. transfer all contents of the
G4 to the iMac. What is the most efficient way to accomplish this?BTW I do
not
On Mar 14, 2013, at 12:37 PM, Eric Hall wrote:
Did you take the battery completely out, wait a few and put it back in? Or
try to start it without the battery?
Take the battery out, unplug the adapter and press the power button and wait 10
minutes. Then reconnect power and hit the power
On Mar 15, 2013, at 11:26 AM, spilrules wrote:
I did exactly what Clark recommended, and it did not change anything. When I
plug the AC charger in, it does not light up as it used to. Could this be a
problem with the AC connection jack that is in the powerbook? Does anyone
think that
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On Mar 15, 2013, at 2:01 PM, spilrules t...@tomstock.us wrote:
I am guessing at this point that the DC inboard jack has diedbut why? Any
other thoughts are gladly accepted!
Very likely the DC in board has failed. The jack seems to be a common
On May 3, 2013, at 1:47 PM, joe duran wrote:
Have a G5 2.0ghz DP (A1047) running Leopard 10.5.8. Recently it developed a
strange bug which I think must be hardware related. The mouse is plugged
into the keyboard and the keyboard is plugged directly into one of the rear
USB ports. When
On Jun 21, 2013, at 4:44 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
Stats: G4 flat screen goose neck iMac running 10.4; I am the
administrator, but a teenage girl has an account. She has the only
Mac computer in the house. There is a Windows computer and a
couple iPads and iPods sharing the network.
The
On Jul 5, 2013, at 8:38 PM, spilrules wrote:
Here is what I noticed as I played around with things. After taking out the
old DC input board and installing the new one, I plugged in the old one that
was out of the system and noticed that the AC power cord would light up in
the orange
On Jul 16, 2013, at 12:54 PM, NODEraser wrote:
On Jul 16, 2013 9:09 AM, peterh...@cruzio.com wrote:
It is a special lithium battery which is trickle-charged by the machine's
PSU when it is not in use.
I'm pretty sure the lithium batteries (both CR2032 and 1/2 AA) are primary
cells,
On Jul 19, 2013, at 12:20 PM, Michael McMurtrey wrote:
Card purchased on LEM swap list, installed per User Guide instructions,
antenna connected. System profiler does not detect it, and there is no
Airport option in Network control panel.
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: Power Mac G4
On Jul 19, 2013, at 12:31 PM, peterh...@cruzio.com wrote:
I believe the earliest airport cards, the ones which are a shortie
PCMCIA card, are 802.11a, only, and that is probably why one might think
these can only work with an Apple Airport access point, as by that time,
everyone (Cisco, and
On Jul 29, 2013, at 4:11 PM, Ken Daggett wrote:
On 29 Jul 2013, at 15:14:29 PDT, NODEraser wrote:
Have you tried another hard drive? I had a Mini that would spin its fans up
to max on powerup, but with a blank screen. It came back to life as soon as
the sketchy drive was disconnected.
On Jul 31, 2013, at 10:54 AM, arichic...@gmail.com wrote:
G5/1.8 dual. I had just watched a youtube video via perian and was
opening iTunes when this happened [er exactly what happened?]
Interval Since Last Panic Report: 4611287 sec
Panics Since Last Report: 2
Anonymous UUID:
On Oct 9, 2013, at 6:01 PM, Mira Kehoe wrote:
Thanks for the advice. I may bring the installer discs and give it a try,
even as an experiment. I can't imagine getting rid of a computer with
personal info. on it, but it sounds like it's fairly common. Maybe I could
get them to reduce
On Oct 27, 2013, at 5:21 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Oct 27, 2013, at 4:11 PM, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote:
I have a G4 Dual 1.25 PowerMac that I want to run OS 9.2.2 with two
monitors, Can this be done?
Do I need some extension or Control panel for it?
Nope, just either
On Nov 25, 2013, at 1:48 PM, John Carmonne wrote:
On Nov 25, 2013, at 1:21 PM, John Carmonne wrote:
On Nov 25, 2013, at 12:43 PM, Dan wrote:
At 9:00 AM -0800 11/25/2013, John AOL wrote:
I have a G4 Titanium PowerBook that I need to display 256 colors when
booted in OS9.2.2 but it
On Nov 25, 2013, at 1:57 PM, Dan wrote:
At 1:21 PM -0800 11/25/2013, John Carmonne wrote:
On Nov 25, 2013, at 12:43 PM, Dan wrote:
At 9:00 AM -0800 11/25/2013, John AOL wrote:
I have a G4 Titanium PowerBook that I need to display 256 colors when
booted
in OS9.2.2 but it only shows
On Dec 20, 2013, at 1:05 PM, NODEraser wrote:
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Evan Thomas spe...@gmail.com wrote:
Currently I'm running a 40GB system disc and 250GB for video projects. I'd
like to use the 250GB as the system disc and start using the new 500GB for
the video projects.
KK6ISP
Yet another designated driver on the information super highway.
On Jun 13, 2014, at 2:51 PM, les simo bababal...@gmail.com wrote:
My iMac G5 OS X 10.4.11 has been running flawlessly for 11/2 yrs. Suddenly it
randomly completely shuts down. I can start with power switch, but it soon
I know this applies to at least one Mac, possibly this one (it's been a while
since I've been inside my MDD), look to see if the motherboard has two buttons
on it. If it does, one performs a CUDA reset and the other turns on the power.
I can't recall if it is marked but give each one, in
KK6ISP
Yet another designated driver on the information super highway.
> On Sep 3, 2015, at 1:31 AM, Jurgen Van den Bossche wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> A while back I bought this machine it had mac os 10.5 running.
>
> I was hoping to run mac os 9.2 on it and maybe os X and some
with each of the other DIMMs.
With all the memory installed, remove any PCI cards other than hat is minimally
necessary to get video out, disconnect all cables other than power and the
minimal video and try to boot.
Clark Martin
KK6ISP
Yet another designated driver on the information super highway
There is a much less risky step you can try first. Hold the drive and give it
a twist around the disk spin axis, as hard as you can. This can often unstick
the heads. If that doesn’t do it then you can try opening it up.
Clark Martin
A designated driver on the information Super Highway
I’ve got a large collection of drive magnets and disk platters from the many
drives I have disassembled over the years.
Clark Martin
A designated driver on the information Super Highway
> On Mar 11, 2017, at 5:32 PM, Bruce Johnson <john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu>
> wrote:
>
Typically you can run okay without a PRAM battery.
One problem I have observed with a low battery in some models is a failure to
start. Simply removing the battery allowed the machine to start. I don’t know
if the MDD is one of the machines that exhibits this behavior.
Clark Martin
of memory, no USB, no serial, no ADB, no
network, no expansion cards (except for video if needed), etc.
Clark Martin
A designated driver on the information Super Highway
> On Mar 4, 2018, at 1:49 PM, Bruce Johnson <john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> On Feb 24, 2018,
I’ve always used the keyboard viewer when putting the keys back on.
System Preferences - > Keyboard -> Keyboard Tab -> check Show Keyboard, Emoji &
Symbol Viewers in menu bar
Then menu bar -> keyboard menu -> Show Keyboard Viewer
Clark Martin
A designated driver on th
I have more than one keyboard, several more.
Clark Martin
A designated driver on the information Super Highway
> On Apr 28, 2020, at 2:52 PM, Bruce Johnson
> wrote:
>
> The trick is remembering where the keys are to log onto the computer to see
> the Keyboard Viewer 8-P
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