Re: Optical Audio Port continuously lit up on PowerMac G5 = NO internal speaker output = NO chime

2011-11-01 Thread Kris Tilford
On Nov 1, 2011, at 7:44 PM, Jack Countryman wrote: On the machine I have here, that's a square shaped, digital out port. Yes, that's the correct port. There's no light on it or the similar looking port below it. Should be red. I don't have anything that uses those ports, so do not know if

Re: G5 runnaway fans

2011-10-31 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 31, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Clark Martin wrote: Does anyone know if my RAM and HDD swap would do this? Spotlight re-indexing the HDDs? Spotlight re-indexing will show as mdworker in the Activity Monitor processes list, and often it can be a runaway process. Next time it happens, open

Re: Old Machine bests New Machine?

2011-10-28 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 28, 2011, at 2:27 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: Model Name: iMac Model Identifier: iMac4,1 Processor Name: Intel Core Duo There's a fix for this underpowered iMac problem, it's called the iMac4,1 Firmware Tool, and it can allow you to upgrade the RAM and CPU in these older

Re: 10.5.8 Update Stuck in Configuring Installation for 12 Hours

2011-10-27 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 26, 2011, at 11:02 AM, t...@io.com wrote: Configuring Installation I believe Configuring Installation is prior to installation, not during, so hopefully you're ok. Leopard 10.5 normally updates after completing most of a Shutdown process, so it's possible some app stalled the

Re: Leopard/G4: Unwanted captions and duplication in menus

2011-10-27 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 27, 2011, at 6:44 PM, Sean Carroll wrote: Thank you, Bruce! Problem solved. Great catch! I love it when someone solves an issue that they haven't really had direct experience with. It's like a good puzzle solution. Few of us here have much experience with Universal Access features,

Re: Slow Motion G4 After HDD Switch

2011-10-26 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 26, 2011, at 5:54 PM, glen wrote: Cause of the problem? Since the problem happens when booted in both OS 9 OS X, it's unlikely to be a software issue. You need to be thinking about hardware problems. Zapping the PRAM isn't always enough, you may need to reset the NVRAM by

Re: what is this card....

2011-10-25 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 25, 2011, at 10:32 AM, Jonathan Smith wrote: I have just acquired a G5 Powermac 2.5 GHz (june 2004). I booted her up and was intrigued to see if it had either the airport extreme or bluetooth optional extra, system profiler reckoned not. On inspection of the inside, I have found a

Re: multiple iPhoto Versions on the same startup volume?

2011-10-24 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 24, 2011, at 12:29 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: just curious mostly, it's too bad that the ilife software can't be installed in the user/ applications instead of system/applications so that I could install whatever version I wanted to on another user I've often wished that I

Re: USB Drive Issues

2011-10-24 Thread Kris Tilford
If you're using this drive straight out-of-the-box, meaning it's formatted Windows FAT and has the Windows software still installed on the drive, you probably should wipe the HD clean and repartition format the HD using Disk Utility. These USB HDs that come pre- installed with Windows

Re: Upgrade video card on G5 PowerMac quad

2011-10-22 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 16, 2011, at 6:06 AM, gramps wrote: It has the original nVidia GeForce 6600 w/256 GDDR ram PCI x. I believe this is a PCIe card? I'm not certain why you're looking for a new card, but the options for PPC cards are fairly limited, and probably won't result in much higher

Re: Dropbox on a Mac

2011-10-22 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 22, 2011, at 2:32 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: (well, presuming Dropbox doesn't screw up again, and given this interview with the founder, I suspect it won't do that again. http://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriabarret/2011/10/18/dropbox-the-inside-story-of-techs-hottest-startup/ The kid

Re: Pesky hardware problem

2011-10-18 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 18, 2011, at 2:47 AM, QuoVadis wrote: I'm not sure how the 1.42GHz eMac would handle this, but IIRC it also has the 9200 onboard, with 32MB of RAM I believe. The 9200 (although it supports CoreImage) is just not fast enough to handle YouTube properly. Correct. My 1.42 GHz Mini, which

Re: Authenticate Moving Files to USB Drive

2011-10-18 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 18, 2011, at 4:57 PM, Michael McMurtrey wrote: Seems to me i did not have this issue when I first connected the USB drive. How do I eliminate the necessity to authenticate the move every time I try to save a file to the USB drive? Highlight the drive, and do a Get Info and under the

Re: Pesky hardware problem

2011-10-17 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 17, 2011, at 10:00 AM, Don Wakefield wrote: I am currently running Leopard on my eMac, Leopard is about 15-20% slower on PPC Macs than Tiger according to benchmark tests like xBench or GeekBench (you can check either archive of test results to see actual numbers). and I have been

Re: USB 3.0? drivers?

2011-10-15 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 15, 2011, at 10:51 AM, John Carmonne wrote: I got the PXHCD.kext. and upon dropping it in the system/library/ extensions folder I get a dialogue box that says it's improperly installed. Is there a method to install it? You need to repair the ownership permissions before it will

Re: USB 3.0? drivers?

2011-10-15 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 15, 2011, at 4:59 PM, John Carmonne wrote: The Mac Pro I don't think has a Molex plug anywhere to leach off of. A Y-cable adapter is the normal solution. -- 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: 10.3.9 hacking

2011-10-15 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 15, 2011, at 4:52 PM, Andrew Owen wrote: They're just graphics. They're not CPU dependent. This is interesting. I thought they were normally built against certain other dependencies on other kexts, and that often newer kexts wouldn't load if the kexts it was dependent upon were too

Re: non ECC RAM?

2011-10-15 Thread Kris Tilford
John Carmonne wrote: I have a 2009 2.66 Quad Nehalem. We may have discussed this before, but I think this is the model that you can upgrade to the 2010 firmware and significantly increase the bus if you get faster RAM? I think this would be worthwhile, the faster RAM is probably cheaper

Re: No Startup, just an endlessly repeating chime

2011-10-14 Thread Kris Tilford
Bruce Johnson wrote: Have you tried a different keyboard? If the KB is fried, who knows what signals it's sending to the computer My thought exactly, this sounds like a bad keyboard to me. Roger Dale wrote: You still have it plugged to UPC? If so, Try plugging it straight to wall.

Re: 10.3.9 hacking

2011-10-14 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 14, 2011, at 9:48 AM, Andrew Owen wrote: Hi folks, I've just stepped over from the Panther list, which is a little slow these days. I'm in the process of hacking 10.3.9 on my G4 Mac mini to be a little more current. So far I've dropped in the graphics from Lion. I've now moved on

Re: Insane Apple mail problem

2011-10-10 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 10, 2011, at 4:47 AM, jbeque...@tconl.com wrote: OK, had a system crash, archived and installed back to Sys 10.5.8 with Apple mail 3.6 and now cannot communicate with my to year old server mail system. Have called the provider with 2 different answers. I understand (I hope) that

Re: Sad day...

2011-10-08 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 8, 2011, at 4:21 PM, Joshua Juran wrote: Yup, the enormous 512x512 icons didn't ship until 10.5 Leopard, when Apple was promoting resolution independence. The 512x512 icon is only used on the TextEdit app itself, the TextEdit created documents still use the tiny icons. -- You

Re: Poor Airport reception

2011-10-07 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 6, 2011, at 5:23 PM, faithie999 wrote: i believe the airport extreme built-in antenna is designed in a way that results in excellent signal transmission UPWARDS but not so good DOWNWARDS. can you put the extreme on the first floor? If the antenna is directional it would be easier to

Re: TenFourFox

2011-10-01 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 1, 2011, at 7:35 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote: I recently installed the upgrade of TenFourFox (7.0) on my Mac G4 running Tiger (10.4.11). TenFourFox is telling me that I need to install the Flash Player Plugin TenFourFox no longer supports plugins. If you need Flash, you'll need

Re: TenFourFox

2011-10-01 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 1, 2011, at 3:05 PM, Peter wrote: Thank you foe the tip, Larry. I didn't know it was possible to enable them. Ditto on that, thanks! -- 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

Re: Poor Airport reception

2011-09-30 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 30, 2011, at 2:21 AM, QuoVadis wrote: I have one of those 802.11g dongles, but the problem is that it connects via USB 1.1. So any advances in speed I do have are cancelled out by the slow USB port. A USB 2 PCI card would be a good investment for an old QS because you'll get the

Re: OSX: cloning or ex-novo?

2011-09-29 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 29, 2011, at 9:49 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote: And what does PCI-X stands for, then? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI-X http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCIe PCI-X is on Early 2005 and before (some early G5 are PCI only). PCIe is on Late 2005 only, the final G5 version. -- You received this

Re: OSX: cloning or ex-novo?

2011-09-21 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 21, 2011, at 7:55 AM, Valter Prahlad wrote: I don't want Leopard. I still need and use some Classic apps, and Leopard killed Classic. You can run MacOS apps in Leopard using SheepShaver: http://sheepshaver.cebix.net/ No need to 'split the baby' by forgoing modern supported browsers

Re: USB 3.0 pcie card in a late 2005 G5?

2011-09-20 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 20, 2011, at 4:20 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: Wow, my new/old late 2005 G5 Leopard machine's gonna have usb 3.0!! woohoo! I don't think you'll see much benefit (over USB 2.0) unless you have an external SSD or a really fast RAID. Also, there are large differences in the performance

Re: OSX: cloning or ex-novo?

2011-09-20 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 20, 2011, at 5:45 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote: I just got a PowerMac G5, DP 2.7 AGP (not PCI-X). Install Leopard on the G5 and use Migration Assistant to transfer accounts data from the Tiger G4. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those

Re: Geforce 7800 locks up

2011-09-18 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 18, 2011, at 12:13 PM, Charles wrote: And is a pull from a Mirror Door Dual 1.25GHz G4 Would I still need to disable those pins? I'm pretty sure the answer is yes. The reason why is because when Apple made the PowerMacs that came with ADC video cards, Apple appropriated pins 3 11

Re: Geforce 7800 locks up

2011-09-18 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 19, 2011, at 12:25 AM, Charles wrote: Yes, my mistake on the model of the card - Somehow I changed the 9 to a 7. Sorry about that. The computer is: Apple Power Macintosh G4 800 DP (Quicksilver) The video card is: 128MB ATI Radeon 9800pro AGP 8x Video Card VGA/ DVI/ TV 109-a07500-00

Geforce 7800 locks up

2011-09-17 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 17, 2011, at 3:18 PM, Charles wrote: I just bought a second hand 7800 and installed in my G4 Dual 800. Works fine to begin with but eventually the system locks up. Had to power off and on the reboot - got a lot of skewed random pixels on the screen. I leave it sit for quite some

Re: 10.3 doesn't see newer HD?

2011-09-15 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 15, 2011, at 5:05 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote: Il giorno 15-09-2011 15:06, Geke ha scritto: So I connected a G4 Mac (Snakebite) in target mode to use its DVD drive. AFAIK, Target mode only connect hard drives; never heard (and never seen myself) about optical drives showing up.

Re: Blue screen (of death?)

2011-08-25 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 25, 2011, at 4:10 PM, Iamanamma wrote: Any ideas? Use Cmd-v keys at startup to get the verbose dialog to 'see' what the delay is. You can Safe Boot by holding the Shift key which will trash the System boot caches and get you a 'clean' restart, which can often fix a freeze or

Re: Firewire 400 not working in G5 PowerMac

2011-08-21 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 21, 2011, at 5:20 PM, Deiniol ap Deiniol wrote: ...story continues... Well I tried resetting PRAM, and no difference. (I can't find the reset button on my motherboard to do the PMU: I have the take-apart guide stored on another Mac so I'll look at that later). I've also done open

Re: 10.5.8 G4 Won't restart

2011-08-11 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 11, 2011, at 4:37 PM, Vince Meghrouni wrote: Sound familiar to anyone? Yes. I've had something similar on my G5 w/10.5.8. It's intermittent, sometimes it shuts down ok, sometimes it stops that a blue screen without any icons, but instead of the beachball I usually have a normal

Re: Upgrading to Lion

2011-08-04 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 4, 2011, at 7:32 PM, Tina K. wrote: Meaning the OS is 100% 64 bit, or the OS and Apps are 100% 64 bit? I don't think so, but I'm still confused upon this issue? Would someone clarify please? I'd thought that Lion was supposed to be 100% 64-bit, and since my hackintosh laptop (as

Re: ------ adding a pci-e video card to a g5 mac

2011-08-03 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 3, 2011, at 3:48 PM, imrazor wrote: I think your options are going to be very limited *adding* a video card. I agree. Very limited options. Any PPC Mac is going to need a card with a Mac PPC ROM (BIOS). You may be able to flash the ROM on some PC specific cards to convert them to

Re: Slow start-up on MDD FW800

2011-07-22 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jul 22, 2011, at 10:54 PM, Hal wrote: Any ideas? Safe boot holding the Shift key, then restart normally. -- 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: PowerMac G5 Quits

2011-07-18 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jul 18, 2011, at 2:08 PM, James Morgan wrote: My G5 just shuts down and restarts itself. And often freezes up. Does this sound like a faulty power supply to you folks? When my G5's power supply died, it was dead, no more restarts. You can smell a bad power supply, it smells like burnt

Re: Latest version of Skype that will work with Tiger

2011-07-14 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jul 14, 2011, at 1:38 PM, Jörg wrote: I tried to update to the latest Skype version which still supports Tiger but it failed to start. Skype is now Intel only with all the v5 series. My current older version is 2.8.0.851. Even this version doesn't launch on my PPC G5. I use v.2.8.0.722

Re: G3 Beige Tower Questions

2011-07-12 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jul 12, 2011, at 10:06 AM, t...@io.com wrote: Or find one of the serial ATA cards, so you may get an inexpensive modern drive. Another option is buying a cheap Firewire PCI card and booting from an external Firewire HD which is relatively fast and cheap. -- You received this message

Re: Will all serial to usb adapters work in OS X?

2011-07-06 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jul 6, 2011, at 11:50 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: Will all serial to USB adapters Just work in OS X (Tiger)?? Since many adapters need extensions provided by their manufacturer, for example, the common Prolific Logic PL-2303 used for USB-to-serial mobile phone cables; or the FTDI FT232

Re: Format problem

2011-07-04 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jul 4, 2011, at 9:43 PM, Charles Davis wrote: Have a 500GB Newer Tech External HD that HAS been in use as a FAT formatted HD. Need to re-format to use Apple Partition Map HOW, every conceivable way that I can imagine using 'Disk Utility' will NOT eliminate the FAT partition map. In

Re: Mysterious communications between two G5s

2011-07-04 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jul 4, 2011, at 11:02 PM, Tom wrote: Can anyone enlighten me on what's going on here? I believe the 2nd Mac that says Another Mac is already running this program is telling you that it's trying to launch the same copy of the program, meaning the copy resident upon the 1st Mac. You need

Re: Mysterious communications between two G5s

2011-07-04 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jul 4, 2011, at 11:11 PM, Brielle Bruns wrote: DRM/Copy protection. The most common way programs do this, is to send out a notice on the LAN when they start, and see if another computer responds to the request. If it does, they compare serial numbers, and refuse to run if they have

Re: MDD Can not find Boot Disk

2011-07-02 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jul 2, 2011, at 8:59 AM, gifutiger wrote: AFAIK the Boot ROM Version 4.4.8f2 is the latest version for this platform, however it might have problems, so if anyone has knowledge of how to redo the Boot ROM I'm willing to give it a try. It seems more likely the PRAM battery is dead. I'd get

Re: Intel Mac PPC apps

2011-07-02 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jul 2, 2011, at 2:48 PM, Tina K. wrote: Thank you for that tidbit of information, I was Intel-less until just this year so my knowledge regarding the Intel transition is limited. Here's the deal: Tiger 10.4 - Two separate versions: one pure PPC System, one pure Intel System. Some of

Re: Startup Sequence

2011-06-29 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 29, 2011, at 1:03 PM, Doug McNutt wrote: Try that with Apple's bug reporter. If you didn't file the bug you can't see it. Apple is like the Wizard of Oz, they do everything behind a big black curtain, and then sell the end result as if it's magic. Ubuntu has everything out in the

Re: Startup Sequence

2011-06-28 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 28, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Iamanamma wrote: Beige G3, OS 8.6. This isn't the 1990's. Hassles like you're experiencing is the universe's way of telling you it's time to upgrade your system. His Beige can run 10.4.11 w/XPostFacto, and a simple Safe Boot would solve your issue in OS X,

Re: Startup Sequence

2011-06-28 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 28, 2011, at 1:58 PM, Doug McNutt wrote: Form a Mac 8500 running OS 9.1 where the MPW shell still works. My new machine runs ubuntu. One foot in the past, one foot in the future. You're balanced in the present. Sometimes it's better not to be grounded in the present. -- You

Re: Reinstalling OS 10 on a Beige G3

2011-06-25 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 25, 2011, at 9:14 AM, skyking...@verizon.net wrote: When I try to boot back into OS 9 (which is on my other drive) after the OS X installation hangs up following the first disc, it hangs at the happy Mac icon. The only way for me to get back to OS 9 is to boot from the OS 9 CD or a

Re: Verify/Repair Fail, Drive Genius also Fails

2011-06-24 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 24, 2011, at 1:34 PM, smac0031 wrote: This is a 300GB drive. Reading Drive Genius shows this thing to have screwed up block allocation. I think it says it has 127GB and change capacity. This is an LBA48 error, you've got a controller that only supports up to 128GB and a larger HD.

Re: Reinstalling OS 10.3 on a Beige G3

2011-06-24 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 24, 2011, at 9:26 PM, skyking...@verizon.net wrote: I'm trying to re-install OS X on my Beige G3 using XPostFacto. The hard drive I'm trying to install on is an 8.5 GB SCSI drive which I had previously installed 10.3 on and upgraded to 10.4.11 and ran for months with no problems

Re: Help restoring contents of drive to newer computer

2011-06-22 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 22, 2011, at 4:28 PM, Dan A wrote: Hi all, I need some help to clarify the best procedure to use to restore the contents of an internal drive to a new place. My old G4 15” 800 MHz Ti-Book, using 10.4.11, developed bouts of severe screen disruption with lines, which I think might be

Re: HDMI cable signal not working G5 PowerMac

2011-06-20 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 20, 2011, at 8:42 PM, Major Motoko wrote: Hi I just did an over haul to my PowerMac G5. I add memory, a new driver, pci card the works. Now when I plug my hdmi cable to the back of the TV is not picking up a signal which it was connecting with not problem before the upgrade and the

Re: Selling upgraded Macs

2011-06-19 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 17, 2011, at 6:06 PM, John Carmonne wrote: I wish just once I could see the magic G4 500's that run You Tube just fine. I have G4's from G4 500, 867, 800, 1.0, 1.2, and 1.25GHz not one of them will play a smooth You Tube flick. I agree, but it may not be the CPU that's the

Re: OS X Leopard Printer Setup Utility ??

2011-06-18 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 18, 2011, at 7:39 PM, admin wrote: What is it? Where is it? My DOCK in Leopard says it's missing, but I can't find it in the Utilities and I did a fresh Leopard install on another partition to no avail. Is there such a thing in Leopard? In Leopard printing is handled in System

Re: Selling upgraded Macs

2011-06-16 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 16, 2011, at 6:27 PM, Austin Leeds wrote: What Macs would be good fixer-uppers for profit, then? The premise seems relatively unsound to me. The best way to make a profit from a cheaply acquired Mac would be to part it out for individual components. The idea that you can add value

Re: Hello! and question from a relative newbie

2011-06-14 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 14, 2011, at 8:06 PM, Stephen E. Bodnar wrote: The 2-SATA PCI card is worth it, it will speed up the system quite a bit. At least it did on my old G4! I'd like to see some benchmarks for before after so that we'd have some real data. There are plenty of anecdotal reports, but real

Re: Wireless PCMCIA card for Wallstreet

2011-06-12 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 12, 2011, at 3:40 PM, Les wrote: How high can I go with this? You can go as high as 10.4.11 using XPostFacto 4. You'd need to max out the RAM, and perhaps get a larger HD (OS X wants about 4GB free- space for temp files and cache files, so you'll not be able to fit a working boot

Re: Beige G3 with 1GHz ZIF upgrade worth it?

2011-06-09 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 9, 2011, at 8:40 PM, Tanner Musyj wrote: That's why I'd be more keen on just ordering in a processor upgrade from online. Get the G4 ZIF CPU in the 400-600 MHz range IF you're going to proceed upgrading this old Beige. I'd strongly urge you to look at the PC hackintosh options

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: 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 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

Re: Help with Griffin g4Port in OSX and LaserWriter

2011-06-02 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 2, 2011, at 8:43 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote: The g4Port+LaserWriter work fine in OS9, but I would like to print in OSX as well - and I can't understand how to set it up. Did you ever print in 10.4.11 on the old Beige, or with it printing in OS 9 only also? Below is an old article

Re: RealTek 8169 in Beige G3 on OSX?

2011-06-01 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 1, 2011, at 10:05 AM, t...@io.com wrote: Has anyone successfully (or unsuccessfully) used a RealTek 8169 based gigabit ethernet card in a Beige G3 under OSX? I banged my head against this thing for several hours last night and could not get it to work. When I boot the machine in OS 9.x

Re: RealTek 8169 in Beige G3 on OSX?

2011-06-01 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 1, 2011, at 7:41 PM, Valter Prahlad wrote: AFAIK, any USB 2 card working in OSX, it's working as well in OS9 (just at USB 1.1 speed, of course). I've never had a USB 2.0 card that worked correctly even at USB 1.1 speed in OS 9. Perhaps there are USB 2.0 cards that work at USB 1.1

Re: new icon for networked mac?

2011-05-31 Thread Kris Tilford
On May 31, 2011, at 1:13 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: I think the issue is that the icons showing in the sidebar are system 'icons' that are difficult to change. They may actually not be icons at all, but different objects in the Finder's .nib files. If you connect to a Windows PC the Shared

Re: new icon for networked mac?

2011-05-31 Thread Kris Tilford
On May 31, 2011, at 12:43 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: Nope, just tried it... :-) Thanks for the idea though. Here's an idea: There are some instructions on changing stubborn icons here: http://web.archive.org/web/20081021135631/http://www.iheartny.com/howto_03.html Then navigate to

Re: new icon for networked mac?

2011-05-30 Thread Kris Tilford
On May 30, 2011, at 11:12 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: in the side bar of the finder window appears my media mac under the shared portion of that side bar... question is, how to change the icon for that media mac? can this be done? how? Have you tried right-clicking (Ctl-click) on the icon in

Re: new icon for networked mac?

2011-05-30 Thread Kris Tilford
On May 30, 2011, at 1:28 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: Ya, first thing I tried before going on the list.. funny thing is that there's nothing at all on the web about the topic either... So it doesn't work I guess. Perhaps enable root user login and try again as root? -- You received this

Re: ATI 9600 Dual DVI

2011-05-23 Thread Kris Tilford
On May 23, 2011, at 5:37 PM, Wayne Garrett wrote: I have one VGA monitor and the apple DVI to TV adapter on the other port. Switch the cable to be certain both DVI ports on the video card work individually. If both DVI ports work individually, then the problem is with the DVI-to-S-video

Re: Applications fail to launch

2011-05-22 Thread Kris Tilford
On May 22, 2011, at 8:30 PM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: The firmware isn't up to date, but I would think that OSX wouldn't install if it required a newer firmware. I think you should update the firmware before further troubleshooting. -- You received this message because you are a member of

Re: OS9 and OSX drivers for Adaptec AHA-2930CU?

2011-05-21 Thread Kris Tilford
On May 21, 2011, at 3:43 AM, Jörg Duurkoop wrote: Does anybody here have those drivers installed and could mail them to me please? Perhaps some of these links will work?(didn't try them) http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/support/_eol/scsi_mac/apd-2930u/

Re: OS9 and OSX drivers for Adaptec AHA-2930CU?

2011-05-21 Thread Kris Tilford
On May 21, 2011, at 9:20 PM, admin wrote: This is what makes the Mac so great This is what MADE the Mac so great. I hope we never lose this flexibility Already lost, excluding the Mac Pro. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4,

Re: OT: Linksys WET54G Wireless Bridge

2011-05-20 Thread Kris Tilford
On May 20, 2011, at 6:27 PM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: Any more ideas before I trash this piece of crap Linksys and gets something that works? I am so frustrated... Is the firmware up-to-date? The Cisco site says there are three hardware version 1,2,3, and that the current firmware for each is

Re: OT: Linksys WET54G Wireless Bridge

2011-05-19 Thread Kris Tilford
On May 19, 2011, at 7:47 PM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: I'd really appreciate some help on this. There's a link on this page that may help?: https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=1399 -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5

Re: G5 1.8mhz spinning pinwheel

2011-05-17 Thread Kris Tilford
On May 17, 2011, at 10:59 AM, Wayne Garrett wrote: am still stuck when I tried to boot 10.5.8 from DVD. Hold Cmd-v at startup, see what the problem is. -- 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

Re: I am forced to go Intel? Common rant, I guess.

2011-05-13 Thread Kris Tilford
On May 13, 2011, at 9:29 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: If you believe that EFI is some great conspiracy to prevent you from running another OS on a Mac it is YOU who doesn't understand what EFI is. I believe he's referring to TPM, not EFI. My understanding of TPM is that it's a set of

Re: G5 monitor fails to fire

2011-05-12 Thread Kris Tilford
On May 12, 2011, at 2:22 AM, pdimage wrote: Sounds like a bad dvi/vga adapter - have you checked for bent pins on it? - try a different adapter. Cable pins can be bent too causing intermittent contact. I agree, the adapter (or cable) seems a likely culprit. It seems like a DVI/DVI cable

Re: Help with Mac OS9 Drivers, running in OS-X/Classic

2011-05-12 Thread Kris Tilford
On May 11, 2011, at 11:49 PM, jsmanson wrote: The mac is a G4 Digital Audio, I have both 9.2.2 and OS-X 10.4.11. The scanner is an Optronics Colorgetter 3 plus, using a program called Colorright Pro 2.0. I have no experience with this, but a quick web search seems to indicate the Optronics

Re: login failing

2011-05-12 Thread Kris Tilford
On May 12, 2011, at 3:41 PM, Geke wrote: The big question: what else can it be? A corrupted cache or preferences file. Boot in Safe mode by holding the Shift key, this will trash the cache files and rebuild them. Reboot normally, if the same login persists, go to AccountsLogin Options

Re: I am forced to go Intel? Common rant, I guess.

2011-05-12 Thread Kris Tilford
On May 12, 2011, at 3:59 PM, Ralph Green wrote: I used an Ubuntu box, since Firefox 4 doesn't run on any of my macs. The 1.2 GHz G4 I am eying should be fast enough, if FF4 gets recompiled for PPC. Already been done, FF4 for PPC: http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/ -- You

Re: G5 monitor fails to fire

2011-05-11 Thread Kris Tilford
On May 11, 2011, at 6:22 AM, ag wrote: Disconnecting all USBs and pulling power cable for ten minutes improved matters but now I have to power up 3-4 times or just leave it to another day. I don't understand? You mean you have to reboot 3 or 4 times and on the 3rd or 4th time the display

Re: I am forced to go Intel? Common rant, I guess.

2011-05-09 Thread Kris Tilford
On May 9, 2011, at 9:36 PM, admin wrote: Adobe Flash 10.2 Intel only, I believe. I haven't encountered any problems with the final PPC Adobe Flash 10.1.102.64. What problems have you encountered? Web sites are starting not to work under Leopard and Firefox Camino 2.0.7, Firefox 3.6.17,

Re: Malfunctioning ATA Drive

2011-05-08 Thread Kris Tilford
On May 8, 2011, at 12:15 AM, admin wrote: Yes, I am still hoping for a one lucky mount and copy. If you're only trying to salvage the data, the old school method for dead HDs is to place them in the freezer for at least several hours so that they're 100% frozen, and then attach them to an

Re: Extracting JPEGl Files From Phone Attachments

2011-05-08 Thread Kris Tilford
On May 8, 2011, at 6:04 PM, glen wrote: Most of the graphics work is done but it would be good get access to a couple of JPEG's the client has sent -- apparently from a smart phone. Why do you believe they're .jpeg format? My guess is you've got some other format. All I received are files

Re: Malfunctioning ATA Drive

2011-05-07 Thread Kris Tilford
On May 6, 2011, at 10:54 PM, admin wrote: WD ATA drive won't mount on desktop, Disk Utility and Data Rescue (DEMO) can't recognize. DiskWarrior can recognize but chokes on re- build attempt. Disk does spin up fine. Have in external Firewire/ USB 2 case with Single/Master pinning. Anything

Re: iMac G4 questions

2011-04-30 Thread Kris Tilford
On Apr 30, 2011, at 4:07 AM, Ralph Green wrote: I don't see how the bottom plate comes off. I see in the pictures that they got it out. But, what do you pull or pry on? In the 2nd photo the plug that's causing you problems is shown taken apart in about the 11 o'clock position and someone

Unlock your doors!

2011-04-28 Thread Kris Tilford
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/04/open-wireless-movement -- 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 and our

Re: Fan issue on Powermac g3 400mh, 640 ram

2011-04-25 Thread Kris Tilford
On Apr 25, 2011, at 12:06 AM, crumvoc wrote: This computer works great, except for other than a power-off, BOTH the fans (internal and power supply) will not shut down. This old computer doesn't support hibernate (safe sleep), which would be the only situation I'm aware of where an

Re: Fan issue on Powermac g3 400mh, 640 ram

2011-04-25 Thread Kris Tilford
On Apr 25, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: I believe the original poster is saying the fans won't stop when the machine is shutdown ... i.e. powered off. Not Sleep Mode ... Not Booted Up ... Not in Screen Saver Mode ... but, Shut Down. Weird. I think you read his posting wrong.

Re: Fan issue on Powermac g3 400mh, 640 ram

2011-04-25 Thread Kris Tilford
On Apr 25, 2011, at 9:01 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: Thanks and my apologies ... guess I got caught off guard with what seems to be double negative like techies ... I read it the same way the first time, and started at reply based upon the wrong reading, and only realized my error when I saw

Re: spam

2011-04-20 Thread Kris Tilford
The storm is over, let's just forget it and move on . . . -- 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 and our netiquette

Re: 10.4 install disk will not work on PowerMac G5

2011-04-19 Thread Kris Tilford
On Apr 19, 2011, at 11:04 PM, Goody2 wrote: 2. I am looking to buy a retail version DVD of OS 10.4.3 or higher. However, I don't understand how I could install the OS to the G5 via another computer if it is not supposed to run on the G5. I believe the installer has an artificial check prior

Re: netflix

2011-04-17 Thread Kris Tilford
Netflix is absolutely not Intel only. Silverlight installs for supported browsers and runs on AMD chipsets too. http://preview.tinyurl.com/y96fe7v In the parlance of G3-5-list, the term Intel only means as opposed to PPC (Power PC processors used on G3-5 Macs). AMD chipsets are considered

Re: netflix

2011-04-17 Thread Kris Tilford
On Apr 17, 2011, at 8:33 PM, peterh...@cruzio.com wrote: I run Netflix on several Hackintosh systems. There is NO modifying of any kind required to install SilverLight on a Hackintosh. Well there IS a required alteration. The installation package must be opened and the installation_check

Re: Nullriver's MediaLink Leopard on a G4

2011-04-15 Thread Kris Tilford
On Apr 14, 2011, at 11:30 AM, Jonathan Smith wrote: I have Java 1.5.0_28 Why don't have the latest? (Digital Audio Dual 533 with Leopard 10.5.8 ...) that is the latest for Leopard. 1.6.0_24 is the latest for Snow Leopard. It may be possible to install Java 1.6 on Leopard?:

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