QT 7.6.4 Update PROBLEM

2009-09-09 Thread Kris Tilford
I saw there was new iTunes 9 available today, and thought I'd update. I ran Software Update on my G5 and was offered QuickTime 7.6.4 instead. I ran Software Update and upon reboot things seemed normal, but upon the final Desktop screen a couple login itemsstartup applications immediately

Re: installing Classic over Tiger

2009-09-09 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 9, 2009, at 10:16 PM, Fabian Fang wrote: I have several copies of Mac OS 9 Install Disc (Apple Number 2Z691-5721-A) for the express purpose of installing 9.2.2 Classic Support onto PowerPC Macs running Panther/Tiger. These Classic install discs are missing a lot of the extensions

Re: RAM Question

2009-09-09 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 9, 2009, at 10:50 PM, Stephen Conrad wrote: Got myself a stick of RAM that I wonder what Macs it might work in 256 MB, DDR, 266MHz, CL2.5 PC2100U-25330-Z You can download MacTracker for free, and then look in the Memory section to see which models use PC2100. Some Macs require low

Re: Shared Scanner over Wireless Networks

2009-09-10 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 10, 2009, at 2:29 AM, Charles Lenington wrote: I must be doing something wrong. My HP c6xxx aio (at parents) has a network port and I scan from it all the time. wait testing this office jet 7310.. works also both connected via a hub, to Speedstream or actiontec dsl

Re: installing Classic over Tiger

2009-09-10 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 10, 2009, at 5:05 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote: The Mac needs to run Classic in order to install Classic. No! You can download Netboot 9.2.2 for free from Apple. This is an OS X installer package. Remove the two netboot extensions from the System FolderExtensions Folder before

Re: iTunes 9 PPC Macs

2009-09-10 Thread Kris Tilford
I wasn't offered iTunes 9 on my G3 iBook. A quick check of System Requirements shows no G3 support. Some are saying iTunes 9 runs on the G3, but slowly. I haven't tried iTunes 9 on a G3. It appears iTunes 8.2.1 is the final G3 version. Someone needs to catalog the final versions of G3

Re: installing Classic over Tiger

2009-09-10 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 10, 2009, at 9:14 PM, Richard Gerome wrote: I have been trying to install OS 9.2.2 in my G4 Titanium Powerbook running Tiger 10.4.11 for almost a yr and I'm not having any luck either... The 9.2.2 disc I have came with my OS 10.1 I used in my Clamshell 366, it wont even take the

Re: Classic Won't Stay On

2009-09-10 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 10, 2009, at 10:15 PM, yersi...@cybernex.net wrote: I'm running in Tiger 10.4.9 Typo perhaps? If not, upgrade to 10.4.11. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop

Re: G4 Cube power supply question

2009-09-11 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 11, 2009, at 2:20 PM, Gorka Martinez Mezo wrote: Can I use the supplied power source with this Cube, or do I have to find an European power source? http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58689 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

Re: [G3-5]Re: OSX10.4 on G3

2009-09-13 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 13, 2009, at 4:33 PM, MaGioZal wrote: Well, I run 10.4 here with Beige G3 without video card... It works, but it doesn't show graphics based on more recent/powerful video archicteture, like coverflow view in Safrai and iTunes. If you get a fast video card like a Radeon 9100

Re: FW 250 GB HDD w Oxford 911 firewire chip, doesn't mount?

2009-09-13 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 13, 2009, at 8:37 PM, Mullin9 wrote: I bought a 250 GB EX Hard drive, with Oxford 911 chipset. but i can't get it to mount, what's wrong, is it firmware? or is it 128 G HDD size limit. Check the firmware. If it's lower than v.4.0, upgrade the firmware and it should work. Most

Groups Archives disapppear

2009-09-14 Thread Kris Tilford
I've been trying to help someone with a problem, and needed to access the archives of the group, and it appears Google has dumped most of the archives for ALL groups except for recent postings within the past few years? This seems crazy. There is detailed information in the archives that

Re: Upgrading a Beige

2009-09-14 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 14, 2009, at 8:10 PM, John Ruschmeyer wrote: Actually, on a beige, you can get exact 400mhz... it's a 6x multiplier of the 66mhz bus. I have a 400 MHz G4 CPU for my Beige. It ran fine at 400 MHz, and I was able to overclock it to 433 MHz with zero problems. I ran it at 466 MHz for

Grab problem/bug?

2009-09-16 Thread Kris Tilford
I've been trying to use Grab to save some windows using the CaptureWindow function. It seems to get the window, and it looks fine until I save it. When I open the saved file, it's always completely black. If I change to CaptureSelection function, and manually select the same window area,

Re: Where do I get support for Classic?

2009-09-19 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 19, 2009, at 5:50 PM, hosemonkey wrote: I am running Syst 10.4.11 and I need to use Classic. I have a Syst. 9 install disk. The minimum OS for Classic is OS 9.1. Normally, you'd use OS 9.2.2 for Classic. You don't mention the model of Mac, but models that can't boot OS 9.x directly

Re: Where do I get support for Classic?

2009-09-20 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 20, 2009, at 10:00 AM, WhyOSX wrote: There are many things my G4 cannot do with 'Tiger', but a G3 does (SCSI card recognition for example). Stupid G4. I know some specific models of SCSI cards don't work well in Tiger, but there are plenty of SCSI cards that do work in Tiger that

Re: Best possible wireless for a Smurf (was: Wireless possible on a Smurf?

2009-09-20 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 20, 2009, at 3:54 PM, Paul Stamsen wrote: Sorry, badly phrased. Any recommendations? Best possible: Any Broadcom chipset 802.11n PCI card under OS X 10.4.11 with enabler script bcm43xx_enabler.sh available here: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=51725 This will

Re: firefox/t-bird/apple menu bar issue issues

2009-09-21 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 21, 2009, at 8:55 PM, Nesta Nesta wrote: still can't find the Minefield build. Any ideas...? http://firefoxmac.furbism.com/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5

Re: HELP - g5 dual 2.3 multi os install PROBLEM - L O N G

2009-10-01 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 30, 2009, at 10:13 PM, rumble wrote: then it displays a no entry icon (circle with a slash through it). i rechecked the specs on the g5 dual 2.3 and it says it can run panther, and i checked to see if the cd/dvd drive was blessed by apple/ able to boot a system disk. I don't

Re: Need to install both Classic and OS-X on old iMac's new hard drive, but how?

2009-10-02 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 2, 2009, at 6:30 AM, Tom wrote: Thanks, Yersinia and Taner. Well, I can start the old iMac up with the 10.4 installer disk, and then use its Disk Utility to format the new drive, but no matter how I try it (either Erase or Partition), I am not given any option to install any OS 9

Re: Camera Driver help

2009-10-02 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 2, 2009, at 10:00 AM, Len Gerstel wrote: Maybe a more modern reader will help. I will keep an eye out. Instead, you'll save a LOT of time if you keep an eye out for a USB 2.0 PCI card instead of using that 12 Mbps USB 1.1 internal USB port. The lack of USB 2.0 could possibly be the

Re: Beige minitower wont start

2009-10-03 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 3, 2009, at 9:57 PM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: I attempted to overclock a beige. I put a 400MHZ processor from a blue and white in it and overclocked it to 466MHZ. It powered on but nothing came up on the screen and no lights came on. nothing. I tried some other combinations and

Re: dvd authoring

2009-10-04 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 4, 2009, at 2:09 PM, Nestamicky wrote: PHILIPS DVD+-RW DVD8801 Ver. 4D28 I've got a feeling this is a firmware issue. You'd need a Windows PC to upgrade the firmware. The problem is that this DVD drive is a relabeled BenQ drive, and it has the OEM (first version) of the Philips

Re: Minitower freezing at startup

2009-10-04 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 4, 2009, at 3:21 PM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: I just overclocked my beige g3 with 400MHZ processor to a 433MHZ. I am trying to install 9.2 but everytime i put in the disc it gets to the loading screen and completely freezes. Not even the mouse moves. Help please! Overclock could be

Re: Minitower freezing at startup

2009-10-04 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 4, 2009, at 4:18 PM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: I turned the extentions off and it booted! I am going to try to find an older 9 installer. I have run 9.2 on several beiges with no problems though... Yes, 9.2.2 runs, but if you ever need to import video using a Wings AV card, or import

Re: dvd authoring

2009-10-04 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 4, 2009, at 4:41 PM, Nestamicky wrote: Oct 4 15:32:24 suntanas-power-mac-g4-agp-graphics mDNSResponder: 7939: DNSServiceRegister(BENQ DVD DD DW1650 @ Suntana’s Power Mac G4 (AG... (581339632), _grillezvous._tcp., , 9385) failed: Bad Instance Name (-65540) This error message

Re: Minitower freezing at startup

2009-10-04 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 4, 2009, at 11:35 PM, Gus wrote: Is there anywhere you can get the proper extensions for the ati video in the old beige g3's for 9.2.2?? Yes. You can download the OS 9.1 update from Apple and use TomeViewer to extract the extensions. ALL OS 9 updates:

Re: HD Issues

2009-10-04 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 4, 2009, at 10:58 PM, Stephen Conrad wrote: I thought the SuperDrive could read DVDs. Mine doesn't seem to want to do that. Opps! The GCE-8240B ISN'T a SuperDrive, or even a Combo Drive, it's a CD-RW drive ONLY, this means NO DVDs at all. Only CDs and CDRW media. Model:

Re: G5 problem?

2009-10-05 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 5, 2009, at 7:46 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: I need two ethernet ports Ok, I'll bite. Why? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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

Re: G5 problem?

2009-10-05 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 5, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: The on-board ethernet port being used by the DSL modem, leaves no ethernet port without using a router of some kind to connect other macs to a network. Yes, there are several ways to network two macs together (Airport, firewire) but the nice

Re: iMac G3 won't boot

2009-10-06 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 6, 2009, at 4:58 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote: Any advice, fellow Listers? Safe Boot by holding the Shift key at startup. If it gets to the login screen, just restart and it should be OK. If it doesn't get to the login screen, reboot and hold the Cmd-v keys for the verbose boot

Re: Find Problems

2009-10-08 Thread Kris Tilford
I've experienced similar problems with Find in Leopard.VERY FRUSTRATING. There are some alternatives to Find and Spotlight, but I'm not very experienced with them. The mother of all would probably be the command line grep in Terminal. You can open Terminal and use man grep to get the

Re: Leopard on an upgraded QS? maybe not?

2009-10-10 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 10, 2009, at 9:16 PM, DLC wrote: Do you think that the DVD drive's firmware needs updating? it is a model SONY CD-RW CRX315E btw. This is an uncommon combo drive model, I think it's an Apple OEM drive? The last firmware was version NAK7, but I have no idea where to get this

Re: Leopard on an upgraded QS? maybe not?

2009-10-10 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 11, 2009, at 12:04 AM, Richard Gerome wrote: I don't know what the problem could be, but I have a question about this??? Why would you upgrade to Leopard if Tiger was running so great??? I can't find anything that makes Leopard any better then Tiger??? So many Mac users have

Re: Firewire 800 external drive

2009-10-11 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 11, 2009, at 7:34 AM, Norm Rowe wrote: I have a Western Digital external drive hooked up with firewire 800 to my G4 Mac. I used disk utility to format and restore OS 10.5.8 to this drive. When I open the drive icon all seem OK but when I select it for the start up drive, another

Re: Classic on an MDD (FW800) running 10.4.11

2009-10-16 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 17, 2009, at 12:11 AM, lrbarrios wrote: I can't boot either disc (when holding down the C key at power-on). Is this because I've got a FW800 model? Yes. How can I install OS 9 on this machine? Download this version: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120243#English

Re: need schematics

2009-10-19 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 19, 2009, at 7:19 PM, Wm. Arnold wrote: 1st Monitor Manufactured July 1984 The 2nd is: Manufactured Nov. 1986 Scrap (recycle) these and get any new or used LCD monitor(s). There are advantages to both your health, and your electric bill that will literally allow the LCD monitors

Re: need schematics

2009-10-20 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 19, 2009, at 11:39 PM, Charles Lenington wrote: You might try reading what they are used with. As far as I know an LCD will not work on a Apple IIc or a Apple II/II+/IIe/IIgs which is what the second monitor sounds like. Opps! You're right, but then this topic doesn't belong on

Re: HELP!!! Beige PowerMac G3

2009-10-25 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 25, 2009, at 4:29 AM, Joss wrote: Please HELP!!! The Beige PowerMac G3 is still useable, but probably a little too slow and too expensive to upgrade to make the effort worthwhile. It's one of the toughest, with a lot of small quirks related to power supply, voltage regulator,

Re: Scanner gives funny colors with one G4 but not another

2009-10-28 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 28, 2009, at 7:33 PM, Richard Gerome wrote: I'm thinking it might have something to do with the one being a Dual G4??? I don't understand why you might be thinking this? Care to elaborate? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you

Re: Radeon 9800 Gig Ethernet

2009-10-30 Thread Kris Tilford
On Oct 30, 2009, at 2:51 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: Speaking of ROM Revision, I bought my card fairly recently rom OWC and it has these numbers. What ROM version do I have?: ROM Revision: 113-A0750A-201 This is a v.201 ROM, even newer than the v.130 from the Aug.2005 Update, which

Re: Internet activity unstoppable

2009-11-02 Thread Kris Tilford
On Nov 2, 2009, at 12:30 AM, Geoff Black wrote: I have three macs and 2 pcs on the network and only the G5 - PPC Quad is the culprit. How did you determine the G5 is the culprit? If it was by using Net Monitor Sidekick, what info was shown about the offending remote address? I have a G5,

Re: G3 BlueWhite

2009-11-11 Thread Kris Tilford
On Nov 11, 2009, at 7:46 PM, ah...clem wrote: officially and according to many of the know-it-all sites, the last compatible version of osx would be 10.4.11. Leopard can be modified to work: http://www.macmod.com/software-mods/mac-os/1571-leopard-on-pre-pci

Re: Powermac G4 1.2ghz powerlogix question with OS 9

2009-11-12 Thread Kris Tilford
I have tried an OS 9.2.2 disc and an OS 9.0.4 disc. Try the Netboot 9.2.2 free download: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=120243#English This is an OS X installer package, double-click the package to install. Remove the two netboot extensions from the System folderExtensions

Re: about this Dual CPU 630-4799

2009-11-20 Thread Kris Tilford
On Nov 20, 2009, at 8:37 PM, Miguel Garcia Gell wrote: CPU 630-4799 it's a 1.0 Ghz or 1.2 GHz. Where I can find some reference about this Dual CPU from a G4 MDD. According to an action on eBay it's a PowerMac G4 MDD 1.25Ghz Dual CPU 2M Cache 630-4799:

Re: Chronic kernel panics in used iBook G4 with Tiger 10.4

2009-11-22 Thread Kris Tilford
On Nov 22, 2009, at 10:29 AM, Dwight Hines wrote: What diagnostic path should I follow to isolate the panic to a piece of hardware or even a software hardware interaction. Go to UtilitiesConsole and look in LogsLibraryLogsPanicReporter. In the log of PanicReporter very early you should see

Re: Quicksilver problems...

2009-11-25 Thread Kris Tilford
On Nov 25, 2009, at 9:56 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: Does anyone know what the QS equivalent of this page is: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=95064 No, but I recall seeing that the Gigabit Ethernet power supply can be dropped into a Quicksilver without modification, so that

Re: New Disks in G5

2009-11-25 Thread Kris Tilford
On Nov 25, 2009, at 6:35 PM, Ted Treen wrote: I'd be grateful if someone with greater techie knowledge than me could advise me on whether the fact that my G5 is SATA1 so 150Mbs as opposed to300Mbs SATA2 is going to mean the 1.5TB will not be noticeably slower in use. In real use there is

Re: Anybody tried this card in 10.5.8??

2009-12-01 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 1, 2009, at 3:28 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: SYBA SD-PCXSA2-2E2R PCI-X 2X eSATA + 2X INTERNAL SATA II Card softRAID with SILICON IMAGE SIL3124 CHIPSET Please let me know as I don't want to return the card if it will work fine in 10.5.8 I've used the SYBA card with the SIL3124

Re: Anybody tried this card in 10.5.8??

2009-12-01 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 2, 2009, at 12:51 AM, Michael G.M. wrote: The Serial # needs to be removed from this post. It's not in good practice to give it on message boards model # is OK. Serial # is a major no no as pirating from Apple and benefits from them could possibly be taken un-rightfully. This hurts us

Re: Anybody tried this card in 10.5.8??

2009-12-02 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 2, 2009, at 6:26 PM, glen wrote: Also I do not know of any Apple supported downloads for System 7.1 (very useful for some 68k Mac's) or any version of MacOS 8. http://www.info.apple.com/support/oldersoftwarelist.html -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group,

Re: Leopard or Tiger?

2009-12-07 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 7, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Stewie de Young wrote: On one of the LEM articles someone put Tiger and Leopard on the same G4 Powerbook ( 1.4Ghz from memory ) and using benchmarking tests found that Leopard slowed it down by only 4% - hardly noticeable in my opinion. That would be this

Re: Leopard or Tiger?

2009-12-07 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 7, 2009, at 6:50 PM, Stewie de Young wrote: Besides try it for a while and if you don't like it, wipe the HD and reinstall Tiger. Yes, this is exactly what I've had to do for a friend whose aluminum PowerBook G4 1.67 GHz was too slow with Photoshop under Leopard 10.5.8 and very

Re: Looking for Older Onyx

2009-12-09 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 9, 2009, at 3:08 PM, J.M.P.Hissel wrote: which is and needs to stay on 10.4.2 Praytell? -- 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: Fan ?

2009-12-14 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 14, 2009, at 2:12 PM, DAN A CURRIE wrote: Hello All, I have had my G5 2.5 Ghz dualie wit 4 GBRAM running 10.5.8 less than a year so its' quirks are new to me. However when I try to view TV programs on Fancast or MSNBC the fans really take off. Is this normal operation? I don't

Re: Power MacG4-AGP, Radeon 9000 video card can't upgrade to Tiger

2009-12-15 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 15, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Tyrus Manuel wrote: I can give more specs if needed, but I wanted to get a sense of whether anyone had this problem first. When you're getting a kernel panic it's nice to know what the panic text says. Since this is repeatable, use Cmd-v keyboard keys at

Re: 1Ghz G3 upgrade?

2009-12-15 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 15, 2009, at 1:20 PM, John Carmonne wrote: Does the Powerlogix upgrade run at different speeds depending on the OS? I believe the problem is the L2 cache enabler in different version of OS X. Powerlogix quit developing their CPU Director. As was mentioned before, the $13 XLR8

Re: 1Ghz G3 upgrade?

2009-12-15 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 15, 2009, at 11:51 AM, Bruce Godfrey wrote: So, what is the fastest G4 zif upgrade that was made which could be used in a BW G3? It's 600 MHz. Seems like a 1GHz G4 zif would be the ultimate solution. I don't believe there is such a thing? I recently saw a dual 400-500MHz G4 zif

Re: Power MacG4-AGP, Radeon 9000 video card can't upgrade to Tiger

2009-12-15 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 15, 2009, at 12:58 PM, Brother Eye wrote: I will also try the cmd+v and see if that gives me anything generally all it does is make the computer unbootable unless I do a fresh install of 10.3: There is no way that Cmd-v should make your computer unbootable. It sounds like you have some

Re: 1Ghz G3 upgrade?

2009-12-15 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 15, 2009, at 4:31 PM, Kasey Smith wrote: There are dual-ZIF upgrades that enable you to add two CPUs in one socket, such as dual G4's. Dual G4's don't have ZIF CPUs or sockets. They are proprietary Apple CPU modules, not ZIF. The key concept that distinguishes a ZIF is that the CPU

Re: 1Ghz G3 upgrade?

2009-12-15 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 15, 2009, at 6:26 PM, Kasey Smith wrote: I know what a ZIF is. PowerLogix or someone else made an adaptor that allowed you to put two ZIF CPUs in it and then it plugged into the ZIF socket on the motherboard. You're right. It's not PowerLogix, it's the XLR8 MPe adapter card. I forgot

Re: Power MacG4-AGP, Radeon 9000 video card can't upgrade to Tiger

2009-12-16 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 16, 2009, at 11:47 AM, Brother Eye wrote: After all we've been through, anyone want to hazard a guess as to why I can't upgrade to 10.4.1? It states my volume does not me the necessary requirements, it has plenty of available space??? Sheeesh! Here's a bunch of guesses: 1) did you

Re: 1Ghz G3 upgrade?

2009-12-17 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 17, 2009, at 12:49 PM, Da'Birdman wrote: First, I'm amazed at the dual G4 processor for a G3 beige or BW! I've never seen these before! Way cool! I wonder if any of them are still around. . . Yes. I too am amazed. I actually own several XLR8 CPUs, and never saw one of these units.

Re: 1Ghz G3 upgrade?

2009-12-18 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 18, 2009, at 10:10 PM, Ralph Green wrote: Was there anything special about the CPUs? I searched eBay when this topic came up. There were no adapter cards, but someone had a CPU that he said was labeled as an XLR8 MPe CPU. He just had one CPU and an adapter card that took just one

Re: OT: What video card is this?

2009-12-18 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 19, 2009, at 1:41 AM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: HP p/n: 5188-1578 http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=NX6200TC-TD64ESLFcat=VCD -- 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: Bluray revisited

2009-12-20 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 20, 2009, at 7:36 PM, John Carmonne wrote: what do I need top play Bluray on my Vizio? I don't believe Blu-ray will ever play on a PPC Mac since PPC software development is pretty much dead. If you had an Intel Mac the only way to playback Blu-ray at this time is to boot Windows 7

Re: Bluray revisited

2009-12-20 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 20, 2009, at 9:06 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: I also believe you can rip them on your PPC Mac, and once ripped, play the converted .mkv file: http://makemkv.com/ OOPS! I'll correct myself, this doesn't work on PPC, it's Intel only also. Sorry. -- You received this message because you

Re: Bluray revisited

2009-12-21 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 21, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Arnel Tuazon wrote: As Bruce was saying all you need is the stand-a-lone player connected to your screen via HDMI. I believe you can also use a DVI-to-HDMI adapter cable from a computer to a TV, but since there is no Blu-ray player for PPC Macs, this would

Re: A pretty basic video card question

2009-12-23 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 23, 2009, at 7:20 PM, tonycd wrote: Can I run the Radeon 9000 in the AGP slot and my 7000 in a PCI slot at the same time? Yes. You can use them both together. There's a chance that the 7000 PCI will kill the Quartz Extreme acceleration of the 9000 also. You can check if QE is working

Re: Heavy thumbs required for G4 iBook space bar

2009-12-24 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 24, 2009, at 1:43 AM, Dwight Hines wrote: iBook G4, 14inch, 1.33gHz, OS-X.5.8, Leopard -- Space bar not registering unless heavy thumbs work, getting tiresome andsolotsofwords run together. Suggestions? 1) fix space bar on keyboard (probably best idea, may require parts?) 2) if

Re: Blue White Quartz Extreme Support?

2009-12-24 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 24, 2009, at 3:43 PM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: Is there a way to enable Quartz Extreme on a Blue White 450MHZ G3? It would have a 128MB PCI video card. With any Radeon card or some nVidia you can enable QE using PCI Extreme 3.1: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/8979/pci-extreme%21

Re: Setting up SCSI HD in B/W

2009-12-26 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 26, 2009, at 3:02 PM, Bruce Godfrey wrote: Anyone know any tricks for getting a SCSI drive going? Or, ways of determining if the drive may be faulty. I am afraid I do not have another Ultra2 cable to test in the system, but this on is brand new and includes the LVD/SE terminator

Re: Airport for the BW G3

2009-12-28 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 28, 2009, at 3:06 AM, Robert Long wrote: Hello guys and gals, is it possible to put an airport card or will it support any wi fi? I hope to use it on my airport network at home. Not enough information. What OS version? What Airport version? I'll give it a shot without the OS

Re: no video on restart on G5 Quad. Help?

2009-12-28 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 28, 2009, at 4:16 PM, Hal wrote: Interestingly, I tried the open firmware procedure described above, and when it rebooted, the screen stayed on the grey OF screen with black text while the computer rebooted, with no display. It's almost like it doesn't know the video card and

Re: Airport card in a G3 BW

2009-12-28 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 28, 2009, at 9:20 PM, Chance Reecher wrote: Your best bet would be to get a PCI card with a chipset that OS X recognizes as an AirPort card. I still think ethernet is the way to go though. I think a USB 2.0 PCI card and a USB Airport dongle is better because you get both USB 2.0

Re: I know I am a pest

2009-12-28 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 28, 2009, at 10:02 PM, Robert Long wrote: I got some software off EBay for OS 9 and 9.2 and when I began to install it to fix some glitches 8.1, which is only my suspecions, I got a message that I need to update my firmware from my Instal disk which I did not get.' You might

Re: ibook G3 - GPU removal

2009-12-29 Thread Kris Tilford
I don't understand. If you're using it headless and accessing via SSH, why are you worried about the GPU problem and what do you hope to gain by removing the GPU vs. using it as is? This topic would be better on the G-Books list rather than G3-5 list which is normally desktop G3 thru G5

Re: Is pc3200 interchangable with pc2700 ram

2009-12-29 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 29, 2009, at 4:48 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: If the stick actually fits, then faster ram can be substituted, generally speaking, for slower; all that happens is that the RAM does not run as fast as it's rated. Yes, this is true that you can use faster RAM in all slower computer, and

Re: Annoying on-screen windows after startup

2009-12-30 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 30, 2009, at 1:10 PM, tonycd wrote: Having these two windows congest the screen on every start is annoying. How do I snuff them? A good place to start is to go to System PreferencesAccounts and highlight the ~user account and go to Login Items to see what applications daemons are

Re: Which G?

2010-01-01 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 2, 2010, at 1:17 AM, John Carmonne wrote: The only thing I really miss on those is Skype You can use Skype on these old G3 Macs. The final G3 version was 2.6.0.148 You can download it at: http://mac.oldapps.com/ -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a

Re: Cam question

2010-01-04 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 4, 2010, at 6:55 PM, Stephen Conrad wrote: I am trying to use my DXG-308 digital camera as a webcam Under the setting PC it says PC Camera but when I set it to this it doesn't seem to work as a webcam. What am I doing wrong? Macam and Image Captire don't seem to work with it this

Re: USB Death...

2010-01-08 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 8, 2010, at 5:07 PM, Gottick International wrote: No clue. That's why I am talking to you guys. Go to Apple menu About This Mac More Info This will open the utility System Profiler. Look under the tab PCI Cards and copy that information back into your reply. Also, make the

Security Update 2010-001

2010-01-19 Thread Kris Tilford
My G5 with 10.5.8 was offered Security Update 2010-001 today at 160 MB. My G4 Mini with 10.4.11 was NOT offered such an update, perhaps Tiger is cut loose for good? -- 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: OT iMac advice needed

2010-01-21 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 20, 2010, at 11:39 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: the iMac list isn't responding so I am asking for help offlist here. I put a DVD into my new-used Blueberry. ( I know, I know it is a CD drive I just wanted to make sure) all the usual tricks wont eject it. I cannot find the

Re: Why are you (still) using PowerPC-based Macs?

2010-01-21 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 21, 2010, at 6:37 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: Since you are not kidding how about some documentation ? some quick searches show nothing for this. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/+source/linux/+bug/262550 This Ubuntu bug report says an Intel MacBook with Ubuntu runs

Re: Cache Failure?

2010-01-22 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 22, 2010, at 11:01 AM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: So someone gave me a single 533 digital audio g4 yesterday. I successfully put a 733 quicksilver processor in it, and then decided to overclock it to 800MHZ. I successfully did this, except that when OS 9 starts up it says that the built-in

Re: Thinking about a new CPU for a Sawtooth 500 mhz G4

2010-01-23 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 23, 2010, at 6:47 PM, A.McCullough wrote: Okay, this brings up another question... let's say I did that: would the HD from my current Sawtooth (with all the apps that came with it, many of which do not have any physical media for reinstalling) work as-is in a faster QS? In a Windows

Re: Lost hd space - where did it go?

2010-01-23 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 23, 2010, at 7:32 PM, Jeffrey Engle wrote: Jonas, try erasing the free space there's a button for that in the erase tab of disk utility. I think the term free space in the Disk Utility/partition world means unused space that isn't formatted or partitioned. Once a HD has been

Re: G4 dual 500 Panther to Leopard upgrade

2010-01-24 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 24, 2010, at 10:52 PM, Chance Reecher wrote: Yes, you can use the MacBook's installer just fine. It's only locked as to the Mac it will install from, not the drive it will install to. Start the G4 up in Target Disk Mode, boot the MacBook from the installer, and choose the G4's HD to

Re: G4 dual 500 Panther to Leopard upgrade

2010-01-25 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 25, 2010, at 7:56 AM, Kasey Smith wrote: Oh, I want to mention that a MacBook installer might be x86 only and not install the proper files for the PPC machine. Well, if your installing from the MacBook, it won't. You're mistaken. Only Tiger came in separate PPC x86 versions.

Re: Firewire Target Mode?

2010-01-27 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 27, 2010, at 4:44 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jan 27, 2010, at 3:06 PM, John Callahan wrote: Would like to know if its necessary to unplug cable from port on both computers when not in Target mode. Instructions say to drag icon to trash, restart target computer and unplug cable. I

Re: VERY good hint today at MacOS X Hints

2010-01-27 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 27, 2010, at 9:46 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jan 27, 2010, at 4:53 PM, ===( )8 yersi...@verizon.net wrote: Bruce Johnson writes, http://tinyurl.com/ydmr4ux Run full OS X installer for another drive without rebooting Wow! Will this work with Tiger? I suspect it might, it's worth a

Re: VERY good hint today at MacOS X Hints

2010-01-28 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 28, 2010, at 10:50 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: In fact it won't work on a PPC mac, you need to format it as a Apple Partition Map partition. I've booted GUID on PPC Macs myself, so I know that GUID will boot on PPC Macs. For that matter, GUID is required if you want an external boot

Re: Cam Question (well, sorta)

2010-01-28 Thread Kris Tilford
You're going to have to get the correct USB cable which should have come with the unit new according to this: http://www.overstock.com/Sports-Toys/Digital-10-x-25-Camera-Binoculars/2093747/product.html Again, notice that these binoculars are listed in the Overstock.com category of

Re: Video Card G4 450 MHZ YIKES!

2010-01-29 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 29, 2010, at 1:20 PM, Jasiu wrote: Whats the fastest video card I can put in the above mentioned computer? I'd guess it's likely a flashed PC nVidia GeForce FX 5200 that will support Core Image Quartz Extreme. You might be able to get an FX 6200 to work, but I don't think it

Re: delete keychain?

2010-01-31 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 31, 2010, at 9:41 PM, John Carmonne wrote: Hi All I need to get rid of keychain password on a G5 iMac I can't delete because we forgot the password to unlock Keychain, it's not the same password as the Administrator. Can I do this? Google is your friend. 1st hit for keychain

Re: delete keychain?

2010-01-31 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 31, 2010, at 11:56 PM, John Carmonne wrote: keychain keeps coming up when starting Safari This is a different problem than deleting the keychain. Have you run Repair on the Keychain? (Keychain AccessKeychain Access menuKeychain First AidRepair). If Repair fails to stop the

Re: Tiger on MBP

2010-02-03 Thread Kris Tilford
On Feb 3, 2010, at 6:00 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Feb 3, 2010, at 4:51 PM, JOHN CARMONNE wrote: Hi All Can I partition my MBP and have Tiger on it along with Snow Leopard? I know the MacBook Intel's came with Tiger. No. The minimum OS for a MBP is 10.5. My brother's MacBook Pro 2.2

Re: SSD

2010-02-04 Thread Kris Tilford
On Feb 4, 2010, at 2:20 PM, Ed Grey wrote: I meant an SSD drive that comes on a PCI card. Here: http://www.addonics.com/products/flash_memory_reader/ad4cfprj.asp http://www.laurontech.com/pcissd.html http://www.devhardware.com/c/a/Storage-Devices/CENATEK-Rocket-Drive-SSD/ -- You received

Re: Help!

2010-02-04 Thread Kris Tilford
On Feb 4, 2010, at 4:29 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: Mine got accidentally dumped into a box of assorted adapters and none of them say Western Digital on them I normally take a Sharpie permanent marker and write the name of the product onto the adapter. Normally I use a black or red

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