Re: Q: Airport compatible PCMCIA-WLAN card with WPA2+AES support?

2012-12-26 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 25, 2012, at 6:26 AM, Mac User #330250 wrote: Really, the PCMCIA slot seems to be the only way to add WiFi. I'm confused, I thought the Cube came with an original Airport 802.11b card slot which doesn't really work as a standard PCMCIA slot? If it does work as a standard PCMCIA

Re: Q: Airport compatible PCMCIA-WLAN card with WPA2+AES support?

2012-12-25 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 25, 2012, at 2:05 AM, Mac User #330250 wrote: I need the WiFi card for my Cube too, and the Cube only has two USB1.1 ports. This is not a good way to expand the Cube with WiFi. There are cheap PCI cards with Broadcom chipsets. For example, the NetGear WN311B works by manually adding

Print spool question?

2012-12-14 Thread Kris Tilford
I had a receipt webpage that was generated as the result of a payment. I normally keep generated receipts as .pdf files by printing as Save to PDF…. I accidentally pressed Print instead of Save to PDF… and then closed the browser window, so the generated page no longer exists, I think it

Re: MDD G4 odd start/restart behavior - new video card

2012-12-07 Thread Kris Tilford
Isn't this the tape pins 3 11 issue?: http://themacelite.wikidot.com/pins-3-and-11 -- 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: MDD G4 odd start/restart behavior - new video card

2012-12-07 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 7, 2012, at 10:37 PM, frrob wrote: My understanding is that the tape on pins 3 11 issue applies to PC versions of the 9800 card flashed over to Mac, not to original Mac edition cards. This is an original Mac edition card. I don't think the pin 3 11 issues was PC vs. Mac cards, I

Re: imac g5 help needed asap

2012-12-05 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 5, 2012, at 7:03 PM, t...@nehaia.dk wrote: i had one behave exactly like this when I tried to boot it from a cd, and with no memory and harddrive installed. No, your memory must be wrong. He said it chimed when he pressed the power button, the chime is the audio confirmation of the

Re: imac g5 help needed asap

2012-12-04 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 4, 2012, at 3:24 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: From the symptoms you describe, some of the caps on the mobo are bad. Agreed, bad caps. You can visually check for popped caps on the motherboard. Here's what popped caps look like: http://c.fixya.net/fixya20/uploads/Images/C2F85BA.jpg

Re: HP 5100 Laserjet driver for G4 needed

2012-12-03 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 3, 2012, at 6:12 PM, glen wrote: I have searched Google and no joy. I can print from 10.4.11 on another networked G4 but need to print from legacy OS9 files on the DA that do not play well with OS 10.4.11 or Classic. Perhaps someone has the driver stashed away and could sent it --

Re: Time machine not working

2012-11-28 Thread Kris Tilford
On Nov 25, 2012, at 6:21 PM, Brian Christmas wrote: Any thoughts on what I can do to fix, or should I lodge a bug? I think in Lion 10.7 this was a bug that was fixed by the 10.7.5 update. I'm not using Time Machine with any Mountain Lion Macs, but the 10.8.2 update was issued at the same

AuroraFox

2012-11-26 Thread Kris Tilford
AuroraFox is a PPC version of Firefox alpha builds, an alternative to TenFourFox. The AuroraFox developer site has the release builds and some links to other current development PPC software, which is increasing rare and hard to find. http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/43362/aurorafox --

Re: UhOh ... Flash 11.5 Only

2012-11-23 Thread Kris Tilford
On Nov 23, 2012, at 2:39 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: our time is better spent looking for Flash-free alternatives True that. -- 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

Re: UhOh ... Flash 11.5 Only

2012-11-22 Thread Kris Tilford
On Nov 21, 2012, at 9:55 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: If you command-click on the flash plugin and select Show Package Contents, and go into the Contents folder you'll see two files, version.plist and info.plist. You need those to be altered to show correct 11.5 version numbers; This is from

Re: UhOh ... Flash 11.5 Only

2012-11-22 Thread Kris Tilford
I finally created a newer version of Flash Player that works and identifies itself as 11.5.502.11 in About Flash. It plays with most sites, but still won't play with the BBC site. I simply switched all the references from 11.1.102.55 to 11.5.502.11 and repaired permissions. I think as

Re: Dead iMac

2012-11-04 Thread Kris Tilford
On Nov 4, 2012, at 11:32 AM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote: any input on it, before I take it to Apple or buy a new power supply and try to put it in myself. Reset the SMC: Unplug everything (USB too), including power cord. Press Power Button for 15 seconds. Plug power cord back in. Wait 5

Re: CCC 3.4.6

2012-10-17 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 17, 2012, at 4:27 PM, Les wrote: I recently cloned my hard drive os x 10.5.8 powerbook G4/1ghz to an external firewire drive, in order to partition the drive and install OS X 10.4 on 1 partition and OS X 10.5 on the other. All went well except I cannot clone back from firewire to

Re: WD My Passport Studio

2012-10-15 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 15, 2012, at 1:03 PM, JHPArizona wrote: I have to take exception to the statement that the GUI of applications is more capable or reliable or even as reliable than command line in terminal. The Disk Utility GUI is just a wrapper for the identical same Terminal functions. If you're

Re: WD My Passport Studio

2012-10-13 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 13, 2012, at 11:34 PM, Les wrote: I have a new Western Digital My Passport Studio external USB/ Firewire drive for backup. Unfortunately this thing has been overwhelmingly problematic. It won't mount, Disc Utility can't fix it, and Disc Warrior hangs up while locating directory data.

The Unarchiver Legacy Edition

2012-10-11 Thread Kris Tilford
One of the best utilities, The Unarchiver came out with a new version 3.4, which is Intel-only and sandboxed for the AppStore and Mountain Lion 10.8, but the good news is there's also a legacy universal build for PPC Macs 10.5 Intel, which is getting rarer and rarer to see now. Here's a

Re: Swapping out a G5 Motherboard

2012-10-07 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 8, 2012, at 12:00 AM, Dana Collins wrote: Let's see if I can find that diagnostics disc http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6481595/Apple_Service_Diagnostic_Disks_25_GB_[Original]__ -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5

Re: external wireless device not working

2012-10-02 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 2, 2012, at 3:56 PM, cheryl wrote: i am on a friend's dell mini laptop. annoying little thing but it's the only way i can get online right now. Download the file, transfer it onto a USB flash drive, or burn it to CD, or ANYTHING you can use with the Mac and you're set. It's possible

Re: PowerMac G5 power consumption

2012-10-02 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 2, 2012, at 9:26 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote: But you are measuring Alternating Current so you have to multiply the Volt-Amps by .707 to get the actual power developed. Oh! I didn't know that! The power is RMS, so you multiply by 1/√2 for sine wave AC current.

NTFS native Read/Write support Snow Leopard+

2012-10-01 Thread Kris Tilford
I know this doesn't apply to our PPC Macs, and that this is also old news, but it was something I was unaware of until today. I knew that modern Macs can read-only Windows NTFS volumes, but I thought that to write NTFS you needed 3rd-party software such a NTFS-3G, Tuxera, Paragon NTFS,

Re: Classic Environment

2012-09-30 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 30, 2012, at 2:43 PM, Les wrote: I wish to run Photoshop version 7 on my G4 Powerbook 17 running Os X 10.5.8, however Pshop will not install as the Classic Environment is not present. My G5/1.8 dual proc is running OS x 10.4.11 and I have no problem with PS 7. I'm no Photoshop

Re: Power Mac G3 Beige: No Video

2012-09-26 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 26, 2012, at 7:50 AM, Nabil wrote: I will buy a PC card. I have the required equipment to do it (PC and PowerMac G4), found this explaining how to do it: http://web.archive.org/web/20100522054343/http://www.darkness.uklinux.net/ Is it accurate? Yes, although I've never gone as far

Re: Power Mac G3 Beige: No Video

2012-09-25 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 25, 2012, at 3:25 PM, Nabil wrote: Is the ATI Radeon 7000 the only option? No, there are better PCI video cards, but they all cost a lot more, and this old Beige isn't worth spending a lot of money on. If it's max'd out with 768 MB RAM it can run 10.4.11 OK, and if you get a G4

Re: Power Mac G3 Beige: No Video

2012-09-24 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 23, 2012, at 7:38 PM, Nabil wrote: Any ideas, please? You should buy one of these Radeon 7000 PCI cards from eBay for about $10 shipped and flash the ROM to Mac using a ROM from MacElite forums downloads. I can help make sure you flash the card correctly, but you'll need some

Re: DVI vs ADC

2012-08-30 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 30, 2012, at 4:08 AM, geraldcornish wrote: Will the monitor DVI-I cable fit into the ADC socket and work safely/ properly? No. They're not even the same shape, the plugs won't fit. You can only use an ADC monitor with an ADC video card. You need to get a DVI video card to use the DVI

Re: VLC vs Leopard

2012-08-29 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 29, 2012, at 2:26 PM, Dan wrote: they (iTunes QuickTime) weren't showing up in Software Update at all! I noticed this behavior also. Think think Software Update has been limited to system software and everything else goes thru the AppStore now? The fact that Leopard doesn't have

Re: G4 MDD SCSI (pref non PCI)

2012-08-27 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 27, 2012, at 12:45 PM, Oliver Fairhall wrote: All my PCI slots are taken up. All three? Isn't there one card you could move or sacrifice? I would like to know what is the best featured/most reliable option for adding SCSI for this machine, that doesn't use a PCI slot? You covered

Re: Last gasp for G3 OS9 Browser - please help

2012-08-19 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 18, 2012, at 11:40 PM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: Kris, I think you're thinking of the later G3 iMacs. For a G3 333MHZ iMac, because of lack of FireWire ports, you can only run up to 10.3.9. Unless you use a tool like XPostFacto, in which case you could run 10.4.11. The ram maxes out at

Re: iTunes redirects

2012-08-19 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 19, 2012, at 6:10 PM, Dan wrote: Perhaps you should take the time to actually read the threads about this issue. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH POWERPC SUPPORT. This is a change that Apple made in the streaming radio section of iTunes ON THEIR SERVERS. It affects ALL iTunes users, not

Re: iTunes redirects

2012-08-19 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 19, 2012, at 8:43 PM, Dan wrote: I've got a 3 week old MacBook Pro here that has the problem. Are you looking at the stations as presented in the live Library Radio category, or stations that you've dragged to playlists? I'm looking at the preset stations that Apple provided in

Re: Last gasp for G3 OS9 Browser - please help

2012-08-18 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 18, 2012, at 9:24 PM, Jonas Lopez wrote: Last use for G3 333 MHz Blueberry. Can any OS X run on this? Yes, you can install up to 10.4.11, but you'd better max out the RAM at 1 GB, and even then you won't get any smooth video playback in OS X, but for general browsing it would

Re: Security

2012-08-16 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 16, 2012, at 10:19 AM, JohnV wrote: I clicked on DENY on each but would appreciate a clue about what these things ARE. There's a thing called Google that can answer your queries, but the learning curve is a little steep. If I were you, I'd give it a try, see if you can figure it

Re: cloned drive doesn't show up as bootable

2012-08-14 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 14, 2012, at 4:52 PM, frrob wrote: So what gives? Why won't the cloned volume of the WD 320 (Partition C) show up as bootable? You probably forgot the reformat the HD as Apple Partition Format in the Disk UtilityPartition TabOptions section? PPC Macs only boot from Apple Partition

Re: G4 Mac Mini HTPC Use

2012-08-13 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 13, 2012, at 10:41 AM, Illirik Smirnov wrote: An early Intel mini? Better choice. More VRAM, you can upgrade the CPU. -- 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

Re: iTunes G3 radio playlist servers?

2012-08-12 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 12, 2012, at 8:08 AM, Dan wrote: What a retarded Apple move. Bad enough that they made the change, but to do it without any sort of announcement / warning How does that say, in any way, that Apple has any respect whatsoever for their customers? Disgusting. I agree,

Re: Music stream capture app?

2012-08-06 Thread Kris Tilford
Audio Hijack Pro Audion 3 AVS Audio Recorder iNet Stream Archiver iRecordMusic RadioLover RAW by Bitcartel RecordNow by Roxio SoundTap by NCH StreamRipperX I'm sure there are more. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop

Re: iMac G4 1GHz user, using HP PC as external DVD

2012-08-02 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 2, 2012, at 10:29 PM, Mullin9 wrote: I have an iMac G4 1GHz it does not have a working CD/DVD ROM drive. I however have 2005 HP PC with a working DVD Drive, and a FW 400 port. Can I put my HP PC on target mode ? and hook it up to my iMac by FW 400? There's no FW Target Disk mode for

Re: USB to serial DB9 pin

2012-07-30 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jul 30, 2012, at 1:46 PM, JOHN CARMONNE wrote: There are no Belkin that I can find for OS X There's an old Belkin USB dockstation that has ports with OS X drivers available. Belkin F5U216. The F5U216 uses FTDI drivers http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm . I do have a Belkin

Re: [G3-5]Re: Mac OS X Server 1.2v3 on unsupported Power Macs, specifically: the Cube

2012-07-29 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jul 29, 2012, at 8:45 AM, Beniamino Cenci Goga wrote: My 1996 PowerMac 7600 with a G4 Sonnet 1000 MHz, IDE HD connected to internal IDE card and plenty of RAM screams with OS 9, but when I boot off OS X it can barely keep the pace of a modest Wallstreet 233MHz. This isn't correct. I

Re: [G3-5]Re: Mac OS X Server 1.2v3 on unsupported Power Macs, specifically: the Cube

2012-07-29 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jul 29, 2012, at 12:59 PM, Beniamino Cenci Goga wrote: http://www.webalice.it/beniamino.cenci.goga/68k/Power_Macintosh_7600.html Nice try! Instead of this supposed photo, please give any link to an actual Sonnet product that supports a 1 GHz G4 with an L2 L3 cache on a PCI PowerMac

Re: [G3-5]Re: Mac OS X Server 1.2v3 on unsupported Power Macs, specifically: the Cube

2012-07-29 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jul 29, 2012, at 6:39 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: I don't know the specific card he is using (ZIF?), but here is the 800MHz G4 my 7300 uses. Yes, a ZIF card would seem to be the only possibility, if you could find the rare 1 GHz G4 ZIF.

Re: OK my last nerve just snapped

2012-07-28 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jul 28, 2012, at 5:59 PM, Charles Davis wrote: How did the skipity icon get smuggled into my address bar? [and how do I get rid of such things in the future?? http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=skipity+removal -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those

Re: G5 up and running, what about browsers?

2012-07-24 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jul 24, 2012, at 2:20 AM, a1 wrote: Any ideas on this (CD won't mount, DVD fine)? Perhaps clean? Some of the Apple Superdrives are standard other drives with newer firmware that support more media types. There is even patched newer firmware for some drives that will allow the drive to

Re: [G3-5]Re: Mac OS X Server 1.2v3 on unsupported Power Macs, specifically: the Cube

2012-07-22 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jul 22, 2012, at 3:15 AM, MaGioZal wrote: Can this 10.5 developer version run on G3s? The final developer version that runs on a G3 CPU is 9a303a. The 9a303a version was a tiny update (via Software Update) from the released 9a303, and it's unlike the update servers still offer this

Re: Mac OS X Server 1.2v3 on unsupported Power Macs, specifically: the Cube

2012-07-21 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jul 21, 2012, at 3:51 PM, Mac User #330250 wrote: The reason might be that my AGP Graphics has a ATI Rage 128 graphics card whereas I use a nVidia GeForce2 MX400 in the Cube. I don't think the graphics card is the reason. Old unsupported iBooks with a rudimentary 4MB Rage 128 card will

Re: OS 10.5 Problem

2012-07-16 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jul 16, 2012, at 12:39 PM, James Morgan wrote: I get a nice window offering to send a crash report to Apple (as if they care about an older operating system). If you look at this report, you'll see what the reason for the panic is, and might possibly be able to suss out the cause. All

Re: HD Boot Problem

2012-07-12 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jul 12, 2012, at 6:07 PM, Don Wakefield wrote: What ideas do any of you have as to what would cause the Leopard OS external HD to be unable to boot the eMac like it did before? Select the Firewire HD partition in Startup Disk, then hold the Cmd-v keys to initiate the verbose boot dialog

Re: dual 2.0 g5 - no video

2012-07-04 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jul 4, 2012, at 8:38 AM, rumble wrote: also, i can't tell if it's pci, pci-e or pci-x from the info i can find about this machine. The info is in tiny print on a grey strip just below the clear plastic window behind the aluminum side. The video card will either be AGP or PCIe. --

Re: Clinking a link?

2012-06-28 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 27, 2012, at 4:41 PM, John Callahan wrote: My Mac OS 10.4.11 e-mail application has somehow become corrupted (?) so that whenever I click on a link in the text the Internet Connect screen comes up. Apple forums has not come up with an answer or even anyone who has experienced this

Re: No video G5

2012-06-26 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 26, 2012, at 9:39 PM, Alex Sciortino wrote: Resetting the NVRAM and PRAM didn't work. Any other advice? You haven't verified that the video card is working. Pull the video card and inspect the capacitors to see if any are popped? If there are popped capacitors the card is dead. If

Re: No video G5

2012-06-26 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 26, 2012, at 11:23 PM, Alex Sciortino wrote: I have tried the card in my G4 and no issue. Great. You need to describe what you've done more accurately. You said, I switch between displays with a G4 and it works. which implies you tested the G5's display on the G4, not the G5's

Re: No video G5

2012-06-26 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 26, 2012, at 11:36 PM, Alex Sciortino wrote: Any way to test the mobo and PSU? You can use a multimeter to check the PS voltages, here's a pinout: Power Supply P1 Connector Pin# Signal Color -- Pin# Signal Color 1 +5Vstb Purple - 13 GND Black 2 GND Black - 14

Re: What is in the space?

2012-06-24 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 24, 2012, at 9:06 PM, eek...@efn.org wrote: Is there a way to check for stuff I do not need? Disk Inventory X is a freeware app that gives a GUI of relative sizes of individual files folders. Really easy to look and see what's big and expendable.

Re: OS9.1 Updater

2012-06-22 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 20, 2012, at 12:09 PM, Alex Sciortino wrote: Does anybody have the updater for International english 9.0.4 to 9.1? Opps! I failed to see that the 9.1 Update links are dead. Here is good download for all MacOS 9 versions: http://scchosting.com/OS9/ -- You received this message

Re: OS9.1 Updater

2012-06-21 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 20, 2012, at 12:09 PM, Alex Sciortino wrote: Does anybody have the updater for International english 9.0.4 to 9.1? http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1387 -- 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

Re: Best wireless card for a G5?

2012-06-19 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 20, 2012, at 12:08 AM, a1 wrote: http://www.ebay.com/itm/PCI-Wireless-WiFi-Card-Mac-G3-G4-G5-Airport-802-11-b-g-/220603457124?pt=UK_Computing_CablesConnectors_RLhash=item335cfd9e64 I've been traveling and still not gotten around to setting up the new G5 for wireless. I appreciate every

Re: G4 MDD won't connect to internet

2012-06-16 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 16, 2012, at 11:32 AM, frrob wrote: Any ideas on what the OS might have done, or what the problem may have been? The OS could have been running the Cron scripts. You might have fixed this with a Safe Boot by holding the Shift key at startup, which would trash the old system cache

Re: Back up options

2012-06-16 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 16, 2012, at 1:43 PM, Anand wrote: Is there software that will do this automatically? Install Leopard 10.5.8 and you can use Time Machine to automagically backup. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs

Re: Leopard won't install on G5 1.8ghz dual power mac.

2012-06-11 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 10, 2012, at 10:28 PM, TFH wrote: I'm rehabbing this 2004 model (Dual G5 1.8, 2GB ram, 250GB HD) which does not have a dual layer dvd drive. AFAIK all DVD drives can read dual-layer media. The only difference is whether or not they can burn or create dual-layer media. Since all

Re: PPC G5 DP 1.8 minus 1 CPU

2012-05-28 Thread Kris Tilford
You should try to reseat the CPUs themselves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqENizr_B-w If you get the CPUs working, get more RAM. -- 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.

Re: symbols for option, control, etcc....

2012-05-25 Thread Kris Tilford
On May 25, 2012, at 1:58 PM, janespra...@comcast.net wrote: What are the symbols for Option, Control, shift, etc? The symbols are Option=⌥ (unicode 2325), Control=⌃ (unicode 2303), Shift=⇧ (unicode 21E7), etc.=c (ampersand c), and ...=… (horizontal ellipsis). I see shortcuts all the

Re: Vimeo vid not working on MDD

2012-05-21 Thread Kris Tilford
On May 21, 2012, at 2:47 PM, Dan wrote: But every time I want to play video from an embedded Vimeo player nothing happens. Is there any workaround? No. The 'Flash hack' only works in cases where a site requires a higher version, but doesn't actually require the newer features. Vimeo is

Flash Player Woes

2012-05-19 Thread Kris Tilford
Adobe Flash Player is really bad. Steve Jobs was hopefully right announcing the death of Flash prematurely. I've got the modified PPC Flash plugin which is actually the final version of PPC Flash 10.1.102.64 but is modified to identify itself as 11.1.102.55 which fools many sites such as

Re: G5 STUTTERED VIDEO

2012-05-17 Thread Kris Tilford
On May 17, 2012, at 3:32 PM, Douglas Mencken wrote: anything coming in from youtube is a stuttering jerky mess Indeed it is. Unless you switched to HTML5 mode. And you can enable the Develop menu in Safari and change the User Agent to iPad and then every site that offers HTML5 will send

Re: iMac G4 1GHz, how to turn off internal display, when using external Display?

2012-05-15 Thread Kris Tilford
On May 16, 2012, at 12:14 AM, Mullin9 wrote: iMac G4 1GHz, how to turn off internal display, when using external Display? I'm using iMac G4 1G, running 10.4.11 Tiger Your iMac only supports video mirroring. You can install Screen Spanning Doctor v.0.3.3 to enable screen spanning. After

Re: Regarding a g5 wireless

2012-05-14 Thread Kris Tilford
On May 14, 2012, at 12:15 PM, Clark, Steve wrote: I put in a wireless antenna card pci that I pulled out of pee cee , but the system doesn't see it. Most PC chipset cards can be made to work in OS X with a little work and the correct software. Cards that have Broadcom or Atheros chipsets

Re: Flashing ATI X1900xt for PowerMac G5.

2012-05-10 Thread Kris Tilford
On May 10, 2012, at 6:30 AM, Mark Langthorne wrote: I have a ATI x1900xt PCIx You mean PCIe rather than PCIx. There aren't any PCIx video cards AFAIK. I suspect you're out of luck unless you can modify a ROM yourself. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group

Re: Internet on Mac Mini- wireless device?

2012-05-08 Thread Kris Tilford
On May 8, 2012, at 4:00 PM, cheryl wrote: I am living in a place with no internet service, and I'm wondering if I can use one of the wireless mobile devices. You'll need an ISP (internet service provider). An Airport (WIFI) card only gets you wireless ethernet connection, normally between a

Re:

2012-05-03 Thread Kris Tilford
On May 3, 2012, at 3:17 PM, Scott Stephens wrote: I have a power mac g4 and I get a ATI 7500 128 mb cards for PC my sons runs but I find A 256m for it, can I flash this card to make work in my G4, and wher can I get the rom I know apple put tne 7500 in some powermacs so a rom may be had

Re: G5 and ADC

2012-05-02 Thread Kris Tilford
On May 2, 2012, at 2:15 AM, arichic...@gmail.com wrote: I am finding some confusing, conflicting information online so I just want a clear definitive answer: I thought all G5's supported and had an ADC port. I currently have an older Apple Studio Display I really like, using it with a G4 DA. If

Re: G5 and ADC

2012-05-02 Thread Kris Tilford
On May 2, 2012, at 1:28 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: This is why ADC monitors are dirt cheap, they're well-nigh useless. Amen. I see 4x3 aspect ratio LCD monitors for dirt cheap, say $20 for a 17 that's 1280x1024, a little more for a 19 or larger. Small 16x9 LCD are cheap used also, people

Re: Getting OS9.1 onto MDD

2012-04-30 Thread Kris Tilford
On Apr 30, 2012, at 3:22 AM, Deiniol ap Deiniol 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 the Apple site in terms of downloads of this 'special' OS9. This

Re: G5 and lack of ipod connection

2012-04-25 Thread Kris Tilford
On Apr 25, 2012, at 9:08 AM, JohnV wrote: For some reason this G5 won't see (my iPod Touch). Wrong version of iTunes perhaps? or charge my iPod Touch... thoughts? Bad cable? Bad USB ports? Bad iPod Touch? Should always charge even if you have the wrong iTunes and it can't been seen,

Re: G5 and lack of ipod connection

2012-04-25 Thread Kris Tilford
On Apr 25, 2012, at 2:51 PM, JohnV wrote: Interestingly it SEES and CHARGES onthe iMac but neither on the G5... Well that means the cable and iPod are probably OK. Better check those USB ports on the G5. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those

Re: G5 and lack of ipod connection

2012-04-25 Thread Kris Tilford
On Apr 25, 2012, at 2:56 PM, JohnV wrote: I know... they've been running hard drives just fine! hence my confusion here! When you plug the iPod in does it show in System ProfilerUSB? -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5

Re: G5 and lack of ipod connection

2012-04-25 Thread Kris Tilford
On Apr 25, 2012, at 3:14 PM, JohnV wrote: When you plug the iPod in does it show in System ProfilerUSB? nope... looked! It's a USB issue on the G5. Try rebooting. Your HDs are probably self-powered, so it's probable the power for the onboard USB ports is dead? If the onboard USB power

Re: HD remounts

2012-04-25 Thread Kris Tilford
On Apr 25, 2012, at 6:33 PM, JohnV wrote: When an external HD drops off the screen (presumably after going to sleep) how does one get it to re-mount? You've got a USB issue here. First your iPod Touch isn't recognized, now you're saying your HDs are drop off the screen which isn't

Re: USB-Parallel cable: Driver for a G5?

2012-04-24 Thread Kris Tilford
On Apr 24, 2012, at 1:33 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote: So, it seems my USB-Parallel cable is somehow recognized by the Mac. Now I don't know what to look for... My experience was with USB-to-Parallel cables that use the Prolific PL-2305 chipset. Parallel is known as IEEE 1284 so sometime

Re: SMART status

2012-04-21 Thread Kris Tilford
On Apr 21, 2012, at 3:29 PM, Edward Treen wrote: Good evening all, Is anyone aware of a utility, (open, freeware, shareware OR paid) which will read Smart data/temp from an external firewire or ESATA drive? External Firewire USB will not work with any SMART utility because the FW USB

Re: Target Disk Mode with SATA

2012-04-19 Thread Kris Tilford
On Apr 19, 2012, at 8:01 PM, Sean Carroll wrote: The setup: A Gig-E and a Sawtooth, both running Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8, both with SATA HDs and PCI card SATA controllers.. The desired outcome: Target Disk Mode, one to the other (either way). I think you're out of luck on this. Target Disk

Re: USB-Parallel cable: Driver for a G5?

2012-04-19 Thread Kris Tilford
You may need to install a driver for the USB-to-Parallel bridge chipset. Look in System Profiler under USB to see the chipset. Many use a Prolific chipset which I think needs a driver in OS X. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4,

Re: Getting 80 pin SCSI to work in an 8600

2012-04-16 Thread Kris Tilford
Here's my minimal experience with 80-pin to 50-pin adapted SCA drives: 1) mine also wouldn't recognize initially. 2) I believe I used jumpers on the DLY delay which causes the drive to have time to spin-up from a cold start before it sends anything to the Mac. My drives spun-up super slowly,

Re: Getting 80 pin SCSI to work in an 8600

2012-04-16 Thread Kris Tilford
On Apr 16, 2012, at 7:35 PM, Cameron Kaiser wrote: The only driver I had little love for was Intech Speedtools I may have used SpeedTools rather than FWB to initialize my 80-to-50- pin adapted SCA drives? Whichever I used, it wasn't because I thought it had any advantage, it was because it

Re: iCloud vs. G4

2012-04-16 Thread Kris Tilford
I'm not totally familiar with this since I've never used .Mac, MobileMe, or iCloud. While it's certain that there will never be any iCloud software for older PPC Macs similar to the iCloud control panel and application integration available with Lion 10.7, I think your current problem with

Re: Free memory vs Disc burning

2012-04-15 Thread Kris Tilford
On Apr 15, 2012, at 12:04 AM, Dan wrote: But when the verify fails... I had two pass verification with FileMerge and one fail. Sure wish all three passed so I could start ignoring the verify fails messages even though a sample set of three is nearly meaningless. I've probably got 50

Re: Free memory vs Disc burning

2012-04-14 Thread Kris Tilford
On Apr 14, 2012, at 8:00 PM, Dan wrote: Just tried it. In Safe Mode, I can burn verify (Finder, DU, Burn), as expected. Works fine, until the free list is tiny - then either the burn or verify fails. No errors were thrown into the reg console or system logs. The only error is a simply

Re: Free memory vs Disc burning

2012-04-12 Thread Kris Tilford
On Apr 12, 2012, at 3:25 PM, Dan wrote: But I'm wondering... Have any of you seen this type of problem before? On an anecdotal basis I can report that it seemed as if I had more burn failures on my dual 2.3 G5 when I had less RAM installed, and when I installed more RAM it seems like I

Re: News: half a million Macs now infected with malware?

2012-04-11 Thread Kris Tilford
I've heard of zero people that have tested positive for this malware. Security company sales benefit from scare tactics and over-estimation. It does NOT affect any PPC Macs because this malware code is Intel-only. G3-5 list is for PPC Macs, so let's call this thread closed. -- You received

Re: PowerMac G5 One Beep Before Chime

2012-03-27 Thread Kris Tilford
On Mar 27, 2012, at 1:18 AM, Nathan Templeton wrote: I had a pretty fickle G5 dual 1.8 that hated ram in ways I still do not understand. My dual 2.3 require something like 28 attempts to get all 8 sticks of RAM to recognize correctly. It was a very frustrating experience. Once all 8 were

Re: Carbon Copy got strange?

2012-03-19 Thread Kris Tilford
On Mar 19, 2012, at 10:46 AM, Dan wrote: Why do you want to disable this feature? Safe Sleep is a Good Thing. It lets you *fully* sleep the computer, not just sortof sleep while still sucking some power. And the size of the SleepImage file is always identical to the amount of RAM you

Re: PM G5: When booting the DVD drive opens up

2012-03-18 Thread Kris Tilford
On Mar 17, 2012, at 9:42 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote: OTOH, when I close Skype (v. 2.8.0.866) it often gives an error (like Unexpectedly quit or something). This is a bug in Skype, there's an open bug report that's been confirmed. The last version of Skype that runs without randomly crashing

Re: How to make external drive bootable

2012-03-18 Thread Kris Tilford
On Mar 18, 2012, at 11:36 AM, Chance Reecher wrote: If I recall correctly, PPC macs can only boot from GUID drives if they have 10.5 or later on them. If you have 10.4 you're out of luck and need to reformat the drive as Apple Partition Map. Yes, this is my understanding also, but recently

Re: G4 USB external hd will not start up 10.5

2012-03-14 Thread Kris Tilford
On Mar 13, 2012, at 8:16 PM, Jonas Lopez wrote: G4 USB external hd will not start up 10.5 Yes, this is true. Only a very few of the USB 1.1 Macs can boot from USB, only the colored iMacs iBooks, and none of the G4's can boot from USB AFAIK. You'll need an external enclosure with both

Re: G4 USB external hd will not start up 10.5

2012-03-14 Thread Kris Tilford
On Mar 14, 2012, at 12:07 PM, JohnCarmonne wrote: PPC will not boot a GUID HDD AFAIK. You're correct, the partition map needs to be Apple Partition Map which CAN boot both Intel PPC Macs. If a G4 will boot a self-powered USB drive, then with APM it should be possible to boot both from

Re: MDD Boot Problem

2012-03-14 Thread Kris Tilford
On Mar 14, 2012, at 9:19 PM, glen wrote: Once booted in Drive 1 in safe mode a restart results in the dreaded blue screen as reported earlier. Perhaps as suggested in an earlier post, Disk Warrior may solve the problem. I know Disk Warrior is great to have in your toolbox. But given Disk

Re: GeForce 6200 AGP DDR2 anyone?

2012-03-10 Thread Kris Tilford
On Mar 10, 2012, at 5:40 PM, Mac User #330250 wrote: I have the DDR2 version with 512 MB. If anyone has already accomplished the miracle of modifying the ROM to reflect the DDR2 memory and the 512 MB memory amount, that would be great! (So I know it can be done…) Yes, it can be done.

Re: GeForce 6200 AGP DDR2 anyone?

2012-03-10 Thread Kris Tilford
On Mar 10, 2012, at 7:47 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Mar 10, 2012, at 5:40 PM, Mac User #330250 wrote: I have the DDR2 version with 512 MB. If anyone has already accomplished the miracle of modifying the ROM to reflect the DDR2 memory and the 512 MB memory amount, that would be great! (So

Re: HD problem on my PowerMac G3

2012-03-09 Thread Kris Tilford
On Mar 9, 2012, at 12:12 AM, Eleni wrote: Keyboard is USB and mouse connected to keyboard, all work ok. I also have an ADB keyboard and mouse if needed. This is your problem. USB keyboards were known to be problematic for booting BW. Attach the ADB keyboard and you should be fine using

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