Re: Classic on OS10 Problem

On Dec 26, 2008, at 7:21 PM, Michael B. in Cincinnati wrote: > Hi, I just installed a PCI SATA card in my DA, and I'm having trouble > with Classic Mode. I used Carbon Copy Cloner to transfer the old > system from the PATA drive to the new SATA, and some stuff didn't make > it. After some softwar

Re: FireWire 800 MDD chimes but won't start up.

On Dec 27, 2008, at 10:51 AM, Aaron wrote: > My FireWire 800 MDD chimes once when I try to start it, and > generally powers up, but does nothing else. The monitor stays black, > the little light on the monitor stays amber, and, if I hold down > command-option-P-R or command-option-O-F, not

Re: 10.5.6 Update and Time Machine/Capsule

On Dec 27, 2008, at 12:04 PM, Dan wrote: >> Dan, did this pan out good or bad? > > Bad. All backups lost. None of the TM images were recoverable by > any method we tried. Apple told us to wipe it out and start over. A > few days later it barfed again. Rinse repeat rebarf. ... TM has > beco

Re: Classic on OS10 Problem

On Dec 27, 2008, at 11:45 AM, Michael B. in Cincinnati wrote: > The funny thing is that if I click on an OS9 app, it loads and runs. This isn't funny, this is normal behavior for Classic applications under OS X. > It just won't load at boot like it used to. I'm still not following you here.

Re: PCI wireless on a beige G3

On Dec 27, 2008, at 9:21 PM, Darin Sheriff wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have recently had the good fortune to acquire a beige powermac G3 > and plan on putting os 9.2 on it and also os 10.2 Jaguar. I am also > looking for a way to make it wireless and I have seen some wireless > PCI cards

Re: Best USB 2.0 PCI card for Quicksilver?

On Dec 28, 2008, at 7:15 PM, tonycd wrote: > I know there are a million of 'em. I'm also sure that some of them > make needless problems. I've heard ones with NEC chipsets are best, but have no experience with them. The only one I've used have had the VIA chipset which works, but requires

Re: Which printer do you like?

On Dec 28, 2008, at 8:15 PM, cheryl wrote: > I want to stick with an inkjet because that's what I'm familiar with. Laser is about 10x cheaper per page than inkjet. If you need photos printed, the professional printing does a better job much cheaper than any home printing. For instance Kodak

Re: Quicksilver 2002 no 128GB hard drive limit???

On Dec 29, 2008, at 6:41 PM, insightinmind wrote: > Leopard is eye-candy rich. And speed slow on PPC CPUs. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs -

Re: no sound

On Dec 30, 2008, at 2:14 AM, George Hozendorf wrote: > My iMac G5 has the volume turned up, but no sound. Is there a way to > check the speakers without dismantling the boxes they appear to be in? You can go into the System Preferences>Sound and under the Output tab be sure the Mute box isn't

Re: GUID vs Apple

On Dec 30, 2008, at 1:39 PM, George Hozendorf wrote: > The iMac nor the Mini show up on the opposite machine when connected > via firewire. You need to reboot the target Mac into target disk mode by holding the "T" key at boot. Then connect it to the Mac you're using Migration Assistant on a

Re: My computer

On Dec 30, 2008, at 7:57 PM, rmwoods wrote: > Hardware Overview: > > Machine Name:Power Mac G4 > Machine Model: PowerMac3,3 > CPU Type:PowerPC G4 (2.8) > Number Of CPUs: 1 > CPU Speed: 450 MHz > L2 Cache (per CPU): 1 MB > Memory: 512 MB > Bus Speed: 100 M

Re: Beige G3/Xpostfacto/OSX/Black Screen/Video Card Fix

On Jan 1, 2009, at 3:01 AM, Gus wrote: > I asked this question once before and I have lost the replies, This list is 100% archived: Older archives (prior to the move to Google Groups) are available here: Newer archives are available both

Re: My computer

On Jan 1, 2009, at 3:17 AM, jonas ulrich wrote: > I'm pretty sure that there was 450MHZ Yikes! MacTracker calls the Yikes by the name "PCI Graphics" and says it only came in a 350MHz and a 400MHz. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

Re: My computer

On Jan 1, 2009, at 3:49 AM, Clark Martin wrote: > jonas ulrich wrote: >> I'm pretty sure that there was 450MHZ Yikes! > > 350 MHz and 400 MHz stock only, according to MacTracker. > > There were stock 450 MHz Yosemites and Sawtooths. The Yosemite is a G3 PowerMac and this is a G4. The Sawtooth c

Re: My computer

On Jan 1, 2009, at 1:22 PM, Clark Martin wrote: > I'd say it's likely somebody upgraded a Sawtooth with a 450 MHz CPU to > something faster and moved the 450 into the GE. Perhaps more likely, but in this case the unlikely occurred. The Sawtooth is "PowerMac3,1" and this is "PowerMac3,3", a Gig

Re: My computer

On Jan 1, 2009, at 1:38 PM, Clark Martin wrote: > Kris Tilford wrote: >> On Jan 1, 2009, at 1:22 PM, Clark Martin wrote: >> >>> I'd say it's likely somebody upgraded a Sawtooth with a 450 MHz >>> CPU to >>> something faster and moved the 450

Re: hp printer driver?

On Jan 1, 2009, at 8:52 PM, dooney wrote: > i have a graphite g3/600 256 ram and i recently bought a hp printer > that calls for mac os 10.3 and up to operate my printer i am running > panther 10.2.8 now . my question is can i get a driver that will work > for my 10.2 os for my new printer. mayb

Re: Intel question

On Jan 2, 2009, at 10:29 AM, Steve R wrote: > It appears from your answer that a 2.4 GHz PPC would be > slower than a 2.4 GHZ Intel, with the same "universal" application ? This is true. OS X is optimized from the very beginning for the Intel (CSIC) CPU and not the PPC (RISC) CPU. When OS X ru

Re: Latest "Toast titanium" for Mac OS 9

On Jan 4, 2009, at 6:58 PM, Mullin9 wrote: > What is the Latest "Toast titanium" for Mac OS 9 The transition from OS 9 to OS X happened about the same time that Toast moved from Adaptec to Roxio. Toast 5 was the "carbon" version then that worked natively in both OS 9 & OS X. Toast caved to A

Re: External DVD RW play dvds in osx??

On Jan 5, 2009, at 11:30 PM, jonas ulrich wrote: > I have an external DVD Burner that for some reason will only read > and burn dvds connected through USB to my Powermac G4. I can play > dvds from it on other computers that have internal dvd drives, but > not mine because I have an internal

Re: 10.4.11 Internet Connect and Network Prefpane corrupted?

> Can someone verify what version I should have for these files for > 10.4: Applications/ Internet Connect and System/Library/ > Preferencepanes/ Network.prefpane. If I don't have the correct > ones ,any kind soul willing to upload them to me via email? > I am on digest mode so including my

Re: Help: My New 23" ACD fails to turn on!

On Jan 5, 2009, at 11:28 PM, ScottTheRobot wrote: > It looks so good on my desk, so i would hate to see it go. Hold a flashlight up to the LCD when booted to see if you can see any image on the screen. If you see an image, it's the backlight being burnt out. If you don't see an image, it cou

Re: network connection between G4 iBook and an Intel MacBook

On Jan 8, 2009, at 8:54 PM, janespra...@comcast.net wrote: > I just acquired a MacBook, but still use a G4 PowerBook and G4 > iBook. The MacBook has 10.5.5 and the G4's have 10.4.11 > > While setting up the MacBook, I wanted to get a file from the iBook. > I clicked on Network, but could not

Re: network connection between G4 iBook and an Intel MacBook

On Jan 9, 2009, at 2:29 PM, Jane, (Portland, OR) wrote: > How do you rename the computer so that it says ~user's iMac? No, you misunderstand. The tilde character "~" is used to indict the following word is a variable, meaning that "~user" is meant to represent whatever user account you're lo

Re: booting off firewire drive possible/reliable??

On Jan 9, 2009, at 7:37 PM, jonas ulrich wrote: > I am looking for a way to get around the 128GB limit on my digital > audio powermac without replacing the computer because I am cheap. > All of the ata cards that i found either didn't support big drives > or weren't bootable. Will it be rel

Re: An external HDD casing, with Firewire and DB-25 scsi

On Jan 9, 2009, at 9:55 PM, Mullin9 wrote: > I own a iMac G4, and a beige Mac, > is there an external HDD casing, with Firewire and DB-25 SCSI, > so I hook it up to a DB25 on my Powermac 5300, and transfer my file to > an iMac, using the FW 400 No, there's no case with Firewire and SCSI. Firewi

Re: booting off firewire drive possible/reliable??

On Jan 9, 2009, at 11:25 PM, jonas ulrich wrote: > I just found this case on ebay. says its for mac/pc what do you > think? > http://cgi.ebay.com/3-5-USB-2-0-1394-FIREWIRE-HD-ENCLOSURE-CASE-BLACK_W0QQitemZ5127087778QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPCC_Drives_Storage_Internal?_trksid=p3286.m20.l1116 It's al

Re: booting off firewire drive possible/reliable??

On Jan 11, 2009, at 4:58 AM, yawg wrote: > My other two have Initio-controllers and used to boot my Panther > clones OK but lost that ability somehow lately, I don't know why. I > always use CCC for cloning. I've used a few Initio chipset FW enclosures and they've always booted for me. I think

Re: Can't get CCC to recognize Drive

On Jan 11, 2009, at 1:40 PM, George Hozendorf wrote: > I'm trying to make a move an external drive onto a Mac Mini, but CCC > doesn't recognize the Mini as a target disk. Any idea why? Possibly because you're booted on the target disk? To do what you're attempting, you'd need to boot from the

Re: ultra DMA mode 4 ATAPI DVD RW, available in full 1.5" high version?

On Jan 14, 2009, at 12:31 AM, Mullin9 wrote: > Do anyone make a full size DVD RW, (tray loading), > that have ATAPI of the (ultra DMA mode 4) type? > not the skinny slot version Yes. I believe they're all backwards compatible to whatever mode your motherboard's chipset supports. A newer DVD

Re: Playing AAC+ on a Mac

On Jan 14, 2009, at 1:41 PM, Dan wrote: > Are there other players for Macs that can handle AAC+? This article implies that iTunes for PC handles AAC+ differently that iTunes for OS X: Perhaps Windows iTunes can play AAC+

Re: HP 940d Drive Door won't open without a disc in the tray

On Jan 15, 2009, at 9:13 AM, hillhippy wrote: > On Jan 14, 10:09 pm, "Kyle Parish" wrote: >> I am not sure, but it does'nt sound like a mechanical problem. >> >> When there is a Disk in, do you R click (Control + click with an old >> mouse) and click the eject button, or do you Drag the disk to

Re: Need advice on hard disk space on G4

On Jan 15, 2009, at 1:13 PM, icansw...@aol.com wrote: > I just upgraded my G4 450mhz to Tiger. Now I'm running out of hard > disk space.I only have 3GB left. I'm a Graphic Designer with > Adobe programs. Any suggestions on how to get more disk space? > Maybe internal or external driv

Re: Old drive in new mac

On Jan 15, 2009, at 1:20 PM, jayphotos wrote: > My G5 1.8 dual has a motherboard in death throes - am buying a new > ( used) G5 dual 2.0. Can I pull the main harddrive from the old > machine containing all my apps, mail, etc and install it in the new > machine or do I have to reinvent the wheel?

Re: Safari RSS vulnerability: pay heed!

On Jan 14, 2009, at 9:55 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: >> Does that include Safari for PC? I am guessing that Safari for PC is >> more vulnerable. > It said in that link that Safari on Windows is affected, but only if > its the web browser being used. > > I'm unsure whether that simply means it's ru

Re: Finding a v.90 modem for a G3 B/W

On Jan 15, 2009, at 11:01 PM, Paul wrote: > I have a good US Robotics external V.90 modem that I'd like to be able > to use with a G3 blue/white tower that doesn't have an internal modem. > I've heard that USB external modems aren't too good, and I've heard > that internal modems for this machine

Re: Printer sharing with mac os 10.4 server??

On Jan 16, 2009, at 2:27 PM, jonas ulrich wrote: > I have used printer sharing with tiger before but not with server. > When i go to the printer and fax settings there is no sharing tab. > How do I share my printer?? Try System Preferences>Sharing perhaps? --~--~-~--~~-

Re: Which video card should I buy for my smurf G3 for screen rotation?

On Jan 16, 2009, at 10:08 PM, whalerboy wrote: > So anybody out there get screen rotation working on any of these old > gals? Yes, most Radeon will allow rotation depending upon the OS. I don't think rotation was available in MacOS 9.x. On early OS X versions there was an ATI utility called

Re: Suggested online Mac retailers

On Jan 17, 2009, at 1:01 AM, Paxton wrote: > Right now any G4 tower less than 500Mhz is $100. They have too many. The reason they have too many is the price is too high. I saw G4 Towers going for $30-35 last year at a local university auction, and the auction produced "true" prices in my est

Re: Awaken w/User Choice

On Jan 17, 2009, at 8:05 AM, George Hozendorf wrote: > How do I get a window showing the Users when the computer wakes up, > instead of a sign in for the previous user? Go to System Preferenes>Security>General Tab and check the box beside "Log out after minutes of inactivity" and then sel

Seagate HD firmware update

Slashdot had an update on the issue that causes some Seagate HDs to have problems: It points to a Seagate Knowledge Base article which states that MANY larger Seagate HDs manufactured until Dec.2008 have a firmware defect and li

Re: Seagate HD firmware update

It just dawned on me that perhaps some of the Apple Time Capsules have the Seagate HDs with the firmware defect? If this were true, that would explain the terrible performance and disk corruption of the Time Capsule. If this is the case, Apple and Seagate need to release some way to upgrad

Re: Mini load after ram upgrade

On Jan 18, 2009, at 12:26 AM, George Hozendorf wrote: > Any ideas why my Mini is louder after upgrading the ram from 1G to 2G? What does "louder" mean in context? Perhaps the sound output volume louder? Perhaps the HD making more noise? Other? --~--~-~--~~~---~-

Re: Mini loud after ram upgrade

On Jan 18, 2009, at 1:00 AM, George Hozendorf wrote: > Any ideas why my Mini is louder after upgrading the ram from 1G to > 2G? > > Glad you interpreted load for loud. It's the fan. Probably it's running hotter? It appears your Mini has two RAM slots, so if you had a single 1GB stick, and add

Re: iTunes files disappeared

On Jan 18, 2009, at 8:43 PM, George Hozendorf wrote: > For some reason all my songs in iTunes are not there. By "there" I'm assuming you're meaning they're not shown in your iTunes application window, meaning they're no longer recognized by iTunes? > They are in User/Music. The default loc

Re: Dropbox How to Remove it?

On Jan 19, 2009, at 11:57 AM, Wilton Shaw wrote: > I have a program called "Dropbox" in my applications and I want to > remove it. However, when I try to do this, I get a note saying I > can't remove it because it is open. I don't see it anywhere. I > clicked on "Find" and tried to eliminat

Re: can't transfer files from Yikes G4 PCI graphics to mac mini-intel

On Jan 19, 2009, at 12:27 PM, arisinger wrote: > please help me figure this out... > can't use firewire- doesn't accept What? A broken Firewire port? Should work otherwise. > bought an external hard diskthat requires X 10.4, What? I'm unaware any external HDs "require" 10.4? Try it, should wo

Re: What is hole above iMac screen?

On Jan 19, 2009, at 5:32 PM, Jonas Lopez wrote: > What is hole above iMac screen? I understand the camera location in > portables and am just wondering if this hole, actually a sorta slit > vertical was a place for a camera or what? Is a camera there or not? > This is an older 400MHz G3 iM

Re: RAM Chip Problems?

On Jan 19, 2009, at 7:23 PM, Bruce wrote: > QS memory should be PC133 only. > > If two of your DIMMs are are actually > PC100s, that could be a problem. > > If two of your DIMMs are marked PC133, > but the QS only sees them as PC100s, > that is a problem. > > The two DIMMs that are reading as PC1

Re: Keychain Access issues

On Jan 19, 2009, at 8:44 PM, George Hozendorf wrote: > Key Chain has always baffled me for some reason. > > Issue #1 - Cannot unlock my account with my User Password or the User > Password of the other account on the machine. > > Issue #2 - When Safari is opened by one User it asked for a Keychai

Re: G3 hard drive question

On Jan 19, 2009, at 11:06 PM, insightinmind wrote: On Jan 19, 2009, at 10:42 PM, Steve R wrote: > At 4:22 PM -0800 1/19/09, PeterH posted: >> On Jan 19, 2009, at 3:52 PM, Steve R wrote: >>> Does the 120GB hard drive/partition restriction for G3 B&W also >>> include SATA drives on expansion cards?

Re: G3 hard drive question

On Jan 20, 2009, at 9:38 AM, PeterH wrote: > Matters little, now, as everybody and his/her uncle can do SATA, and > Silicon Image has what is perhaps the best line of SATA products. > > FirmTek was left in the dust. The Silicon Image PCI-X SATA card wasn't bootable in a PowerMac G5, but the Fi

Re: powermac G5 drive bay question

On Jan 21, 2009, at 8:50 AM, Steve R wrote: > When the G5 shipped, it had one drive installed in the upper bay. Is > there any reason to have a one-drive G5 using that upper bay, or can > I re/install one-drive in the lower easier-to-access bay? Easier access? What are you doing that you need to

Re: powermac G5 drive bay question

On Jan 21, 2009, at 12:11 PM, Dana Collins wrote: > I have such an arrangement, Kris. What recommendations re: a RAID > utility to > use can be made? > Quite curious. Use Disk Utility. Disk Utility has supported RAID since Tiger, perhaps even in Panther? When you highlight a HD in Disk Util

Re: Postscript Printers

On Jan 21, 2009, at 12:23 PM, PeterH wrote: > The 4/4M is an EX marking engine printer, perhaps the best marking > engine which Canon has produced. > > Sadly, the PostScript emulation is none too good, although it is a > lot better than Brother's. The 4M's Postscript ROM module was defective and

Re: Postscript Printers

On Jan 21, 2009, at 12:41 PM, PeterH wrote: > The RAM is easy to find as it is standard PC RAM from back in the 386 > and 486 days, when every PC supported parity, but the parity could be > turned off in many PCs. No. The HP parity RAM was different in the LJ4/4M. Normal PC parity RAM (9 chip

Re: powermac G5 drive bay question

On Jan 21, 2009, at 8:34 PM, Kyle Parish wrote: > Are you talking about Disk Drives or Hard Drives. Disk drives ARE Hard Drives. Disc drives are optical drives. The easy to remember way is that a "c" is soft and round like a CD or DVD. A "k" is square and hard like a hard drive. > I like ha

Re: Seagate HD firmware update

On Jan 18, 2009, at 3:46 AM, Paul wrote: > The announcement said "Seagate has isolated this issue to a firmware > bug affecting drives from these families manufactured IN December > 2008." That would seem to narrow the field of eligible drives quite a > bit. No, you misquoted Seagate's announcem

Re: Beige G3 Personality Card question: using a TV as the ONLY monitor?

On Jan 22, 2009, at 1:30 PM, jonas ulrich wrote: > You might try upgrading to mac os 9.2.2 OS 9.2.2 will kill off the input/output function of the Wings Personality card. You must use two specific extensions from OS 9.1 or earlier to enable the Wings AV functions. Here is a copied post from

Re: Beige G3 Personality Card question: using a TV as the ONLY monitor?

On Jan 22, 2009, at 1:46 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: > On Jan 22, 2009, at 1:30 PM, jonas ulrich wrote: > >> You might try upgrading to mac os 9.2.2 > > OS 9.2.2 will kill off the input/output function of the Wings > Personality card. I wasn't clear. You CAN use 9.2.2, b

Re: Sata drive in my MDD?

On Jan 25, 2009, at 12:12 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: > Ok, quick question... I have a nice 500gb sata 3.5 that needs to live > in my MDD 1.25 or 1.42. What card do I need to make this work? a sata > controller card and? how do the drives get power? is there a "kit" > that I could get for this? Than

Re: Dual Monitors?

On Jan 26, 2009, at 1:08 PM, Dan A. Currie wrote: > Do I get an adapter? Do I get another ATI Radeon 9000 PRO card? Your Radeon 9000 Pro should support dual monitors (assuming you're currently using the ADC port?) Just get an LCD with DVI and plug it in. If you're already using the DVI port

Re: DBAN on Macs??

On Jan 26, 2009, at 8:56 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > Maybe I should see if there's a live Darwin CD or something... A Russian guy made a "live" OS X Tiger DVD a couple years ago, it was called Kismus Live DVD. It works on both PPC Macs and Intel/AMD PCs (I don't know about Intel Macs). It boo

Re: DBAN on Macs??

On Jan 27, 2009, at 9:25 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: > Why isn't "1 Pass", Writing Zeroes, sufficient to wipe a disk clean? There exists special hardware/software that can scan a disk for the strength of the magnetism of each individual bit. There is a residual magnetism each time a bit is eras

Re: how to flash a video card?

On Jan 27, 2009, at 9:38 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: > I'd like to flash a PC video card for use in my MDD machine. The > card is a 128 Meg nVidia GeForce 4 Ti 4600 Video Card. Can somebody > give me some ideas how to do this? You could start here: --~--~

Re: DBAN on Macs??

On Jan 27, 2009, at 10:02 PM, insightinmind wrote: > Maybe an "MRI" would do it. I've seen powerful electo-magnets with small slots that you were supposed to pass magnetic media through the slot for a total erase cycle instantly. I don't think these were meant for HDs, but who knows? I'd gu

Re: Need Info on CD & DVD burners

On Jan 28, 2009, at 8:06 PM, Wm. Arnold wrote: > Hi List, > > 1. Will a CD burn a picture? What do you mean by "picture"? Whatever you mean, if it's digital data and smaller than the capacity of the disc, you can burn it. > I was hoping to copy my HD to a CD but pictures are not shown only

Re: 2006 eMAC won't boot

On Jan 28, 2009, at 8:00 PM, Joseph Getchel wrote: > Some advice please: I have a 2006 edition eMac (with SuperDrive) > that will > not boot up and run. It locks up either as it is booting up or just > after > completing bootup. I have tried wiping the HD and re-installing > (OSX.4.11),

G5 sound input problem

I'm trying to attach a microphone to a dual G5 2.3GHz thru the audio line-in jack on the back. It's a normal 3.5mm stereo mini-jack as far as I can tell. I have several microphones, an Apple monaural, an Aiwa mini stereo, etc. It's definitely NOT an old Apple mic that uses the longer jack

Re: Unstable upgraded B&W G3...

On Feb 1, 2009, at 10:20 AM, Sandymac wrote: > I've tried restarting in 'safe' mode, but that makes no difference; it > still hangs. > > And after about half a day of frequent restarts, I noticed that the > startup tone/chime doesn't sound - but I still hear other sounds (like > the crunching of

Re: Terminal tells me I have new mail

On Feb 2, 2009, at 3:21 PM, Steve R wrote: > When I open Terminal, it tells me I have new mail. This makes no sense. You'd need to execute some command unless the link you're launching Terminal from is a script, and even then it should ask a password. Perhaps you mean a "terminal" window w

Re: Problem with M-Audio Revolution 7.1

On Feb 2, 2009, at 10:13 PM, Eric Volker wrote: > I also tried getting a Delta 410 into my G5, but the slots weren't > keyed properly. As far as I can tell, it's because the Delta is a 5V > card, whereas the Powermac G5 is keyed to accept only 3.3V cards. Can > anyone here verify that? I believe

Re: Terminal tells me I have new mail

On Feb 3, 2009, at 2:35 AM, Bill Christensen wrote: > Mystery not completely solved > > Other than opening the file at /var/mail/myusername with a text > editor, is there any way I can download that mail to an actual mail > client (preferably one on a *different* machine, as I have several >

Re: Unstable upgraded B&W G3...

On Feb 3, 2009, at 9:55 AM, Sandy Mitchell wrote: > The only issue left - and I suspect it's not really an issue - is I > STILL don't get the startup chime-sound, though all other sound are > fine. Did you reseat the ROM module? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You rec

Re: Which SATA PCI adapter will work in a MDD?

On Feb 5, 2009, at 2:14 PM, PeterH wrote: > That appears to be a Silicon Image-based card. > > Si I has a very responsible approach to MacOS ... nearly all (if not > all) their products have MacOS drivers available for download. Silicon image cards aren't bootable in PPC Macs, and perhaps not in

Re: 2002 iMac Flat Panel, boot in OS 9.2.2, not 9.2.1

On Feb 5, 2009, at 6:41 PM, Mullin9 wrote: > 2002 iMac Flat Panel, boot in OS 9.2.2, not 9.2.1 > While it boots in OS 9.2.2, and boots in OS 9.2.1 CD install with OS > 9.2.2 update, > it can't do the OS 9.2.1 install (this Computer is'nt supported), but > it'll do the 9.2.2 update from the OS 9.2

Re: ... on a G4 MDD

On Feb 8, 2009, at 11:07 AM, Dan A. Currie wrote: > When I try to boot up OS9.2 going through SP, it tries very hard to > find > OS9.2 - the old file folder is there flashing from the Picasso to ? > mark > about 5 or 6 times then it "gives up" and goes to 10.5. The problem you've got is like

Re: Spotlight Problem in Mail

On Feb 8, 2009, at 12:57 PM, Linda wrote: > Ok, I seem to have a problem with my mail. Spotlight will not search > the entire message. I had a similar issue once. I had to reindex Spotlight completely. I opened Spotlight System Preference and under the Privacy tab using the "+" button added

Re: LAN

On Feb 9, 2009, at 9:44 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > the Mac uses SMB to access Windows. I think OS X SMB version is about 5 updates behind the current stable SMB release? I don't understand why someone doesn't compile the current release for OS X and make it available? --~--~-~--~--

Re: LAN

> On Feb 9, 2009, at 11:58 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > >> >> On Feb 9, 2009, at 8:45 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: >>> On Feb 9, 2009, at 9:44 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: >>> the Mac uses SMB to access Windows. >> >> I think OS X SMB version is about 5 upd

Re: what happened to the "trash crunch" noise?

On Feb 13, 2009, at 7:12 PM, James E. Therrault wrote: > I sort of have a similar issue... No start up chime. Machine works > perfectly otherwise.. You can control the startup sound using a System Preferences Control Pane that you can download here:

Re: Printing

On Feb 18, 2009, at 10:32 PM, Charles Davis wrote: > ADB = Apple Data Buss, and yes that is a serial connection. > [ADB as opposed to RS232, which is also a serial protocol. There's no such thing as an ADB printer AFAIK. You're talking about an Apple "Serial" printer. The cables are somewhat

Re: Beige G3 - CD drive sometimes not recognized

On Feb 19, 2009, at 10:47 PM, joplinfan wrote: > Have a 300mhz Beige G3 running 9.2.2 and 10.4.8 > > Sometimes the G3 can access the CD drive and other times it can't. > When it can't, a PRAM reset via the keyboard will always get it > recognized and going again... but it may become unrecognized

Re: transferring a hard disk

On Feb 22, 2009, at 3:06 PM, Lawrence David Eden wrote: > Yes. I have a Western Digital in the B&W that works fine. I called > Apple about the jumper settings, and they told me to use CS instead > of Master. This is wrong. The B&W was pre-cable select and needs to be either master or slave.

Re: Selecting Startup Disk in Beige G3

On Feb 22, 2009, at 7:40 PM, Mullin9 wrote: > In the new-world mac, I press "option" at startup to select the > startup disk, > But on the Old-World Beige Mac, what key do I push to select the > startup disk, If you're using an unsupported version of OS X (10.3 or 10.4) requiring XPostFacto yo

Re: upgrading firmware on blue and white??

On Feb 23, 2009, at 1:09 AM, jonas ulrich wrote: > every single bloody download link doesn't work!!! at 94k > through it says the decompression failed Try either of these: or

Re: Clamshell issues??

On Feb 23, 2009, at 9:39 PM, jonas ulrich wrote: > The keyboard is fine i have tried unplugging. I HAVE to boot it in > safe mode or it won't boot at all. i hold down the shift key I'd try resetting the PMU which will also reset the PRAM/NVRAM using these instructions: NOTICE STEP #7, reconne

Re: Clamshell issues??

On Feb 24, 2009, at 1:11 AM, jonas ulrich wrote: > I meant that i tried running those os's. I'm currently running tiger. > I tried what you suggested, but as usual it started up without safe > boot but immediately froze up. Let's try a verbose boot using Cmd-v at startup and see what's the hang?

Safari 4 Public Beta available today

Safari 4 Public Beta is available today: It requires 10.5.6 or 10.4.11 and comes in separate versions for Leopard & Tiger. My first impressions are bad. As usual, new eye candy, a fancy "Top Spots" page that curves a miniature wallpaper of your most visited

Re: Safari 4 Public Beta available today

On Feb 24, 2009, at 7:00 PM, Wilton Shaw wrote: >> I restarted my computer and everything ran smoothly. Not quite. Your reply was included within the quote of Bruce's comments, as if Bruce had written it and your reply was blank. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You rece

Re: Clamshell issues??

>> On 2/23/09, Kris Tilford wrote: >> >> Let's try a verbose boot using Cmd-v at startup and see what's the >> hang? > On Feb 24, 2009, at 11:43 PM, jonas ulrich wrote: > How do you do that? Are you saying

Re: Yamaha CRW4260TX Compatibility with G3

On Feb 26, 2009, at 4:48 PM, Will_i_am wrote: > I have a chance to pick up a used Yamaha external SCSI CD-RW burner, > model CRW4260TX (4x2x6x). To my knowledge, it is a 50-pin SCSI-1. > Would this old Yamaha be a good match and compatible under MacOS 9 on > the G3 or if not what more recent an

Re: Clamshell issues??

On Feb 27, 2009, at 2:12 PM, jonas ulrich wrote: > How do you do the verbose mode in os 10 Hold down the Cmd-v keys at startup. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, a

Re: Firewire hard drives not mounting

On Feb 28, 2009, at 7:39 PM, Ken W wrote: > What the heck? I am not that technical with this kind of stuff. I used to boot from Firewire HDs all the time, and occasionally would run into a similar issue. The problem was somehow something switched the Firewire kext in OS X to some other sett

Re: Switching off Tiger feature, on slow Mac.

On Feb 28, 2009, at 10:14 PM, Mullin9 wrote: > I have a slow Beige Mac, which I made Tiger Run.. > Which feature do l turn off, to make OS 10.4 more like OS 10.3? > I love my Beige, > 3 5.25" Drive bays, > onboard SCSI, > I added PCI FW card to use Tiger, This subject would be better on the Unsu

Re: Firewire hard drives not mounting

On Mar 1, 2009, at 4:30 PM, tonycd wrote: > Obviously the failure to display all three is an eyebrow-raiser. The > drive is a very low-mileage, late-model Seagate 320. I know Seagates > and Maxtors (same maker) have had trouble lately, but I also know this > has been especially true on a line of

Re: How can I point iTunes to a new disk?

On Mar 2, 2009, at 3:31 PM, yawg wrote: > Now every time I want to play a playlist in iTunes I have to tell > iTunes where to find every single tune. Assuming you're using the default mode where in the Preferences>Advanced window the "Keep iTunes Music Folder Organized" is checked, then the

Re: How can I point iTunes to a new disk?

On Mar 2, 2009, at 6:48 PM, yawg wrote: > I don't have a new library location, as my new big disk is only > storage as my old smaller disk was. I just want to point iTunes to the > new disk where all my music is now. It's an identical copy of all the > music on my original smaller disk. I hate to

Re: RS-232 Serial to USB connector require drivers?

On Mar 2, 2009, at 10:03 PM, Cliff Rediger wrote: > I've purchased an Oregon Scientific Weather station > and want to download data to my Mini G4 Tiger > The OSW has an RS-323 F serial connector and > I find Serial-USB adaptors readily available but > wonder if special drivers are required? I th

Highlighting issue(s) Safari+

I'm having a highlighting issue that I thought was limited to the new Safari 4 beta, a likely bug, but then I see it's continuing into other applications, including Mail.app and Text Edit. The symptoms are various, and include not being able to highlight anything in a window; or having the

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