G4 powerbook

2011-11-30 Thread Wayne Garrett
I am looking for a G4 powerbook for my daughter 12-17 inch fine. -- Sent from my mobile device -- 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: G4 powerbook

2011-11-30 Thread Wayne Garrett
What adress do I use to post a wanted add? Thanks Bruce On 11/30/11, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Nov 30, 2011, at 9:04 AM, Wayne Garrett wrote: I am looking for a G4 powerbook for my daughter 12-17 inch fine. Watch the LEM swaplist they show up

Re: G5 1.8 won't boot

2011-11-30 Thread Wayne Garrett
On Monday, August 8, 2011, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 4:23 PM -0500 8/8/2011, Wayne Garrett wrote: My G5 boots only to the apple logo and gets stuck. It's fans tghen begin roaring! The power manager sets the fans to high when it's not getting further direction from the OS. I tried

Re: G5 1.8 won't boot

2011-08-09 Thread Wayne Garrett
On Monday, August 8, 2011, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 4:23 PM -0500 8/8/2011, Wayne Garrett wrote: My G5 boots only to the apple logo and gets stuck. It's fans tghen begin roaring! The power manager sets the fans to high when it's not getting further direction from the OS. I tried

G5 1.8 won't boot

2011-08-08 Thread Wayne Garrett
My G5 boots only to the apple logo and gets stuck. It's fans tghen begin roaring! I tried command-option-P with no luck. I pulled the battery for a while and still no luck. I tried the option key at boot because I have a mirrored back up drive and cannot get to the boot drive selection

Re: G5 1.8 won't boot

2011-08-08 Thread Wayne Garrett
No, not yet. If the motherboard caps are bad isn't it dead? I guess I would be looking for another Mother board or new mac. On 8/8/11, Charles Lenington macso...@brightok.net wrote: On 8/8/11 4:23 PM, Wayne Garrett wrote: My G5 boots only to the apple logo and gets stuck. It's fans tghen

Re: G5 1.8 won't boot

2011-08-08 Thread Wayne Garrett
Tanks Bruce. I was able to boot from DVD install. My drives wouldn't mount at first. I think I have a bad SATA controller. This is not the first time things broke. I will try to get a new controller. On 8/8/11, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Aug 8, 2011, at 3:05 PM,

Re: Hard drive woes

2011-07-11 Thread Wayne Garrett
should re-format my main drive. On 7/11/11, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 12:00 AM -0500 7/11/2011, Wayne Garrett wrote: I have been having problems with hard drive corruption on both SATA drives in My G5 Dual 1.8. Could it be the built in SATA controller? I just fixed one drive only

Hard drive woes

2011-07-10 Thread Wayne Garrett
I have been having problems with hard drive corruption on both SATA drives in My G5 Dual 1.8. Could it be the built in SATA controller? I just fixed one drive only to have the other get messed up. Any ideas?? -- Sent from my mobile device -- You received this message because you are a member

Re: Hello! and question from a relative newbie

2011-06-16 Thread Wayne Garrett
Imovie except the latest versions does a nice job. Importing and rendering take a long time on my old G4 MDD dual 887 even with 2gigs of ram and SATA drive. My G5 1.8 with 2 gigs is twice to 3 times as fast at the same tasks. A good AGP video card helps as well. Good luck! I also miss my

ATI 9600 Dual DVI

2011-05-23 Thread Wayne Garrett
I have a G5 1.8 dual with 5.8 on it. I have the ATI 9600 Dual DVI 128 AGP card in it. I have one VGA monitor and the apple DVI to TV adapter on the other port. I can't get the other port to work with S-Video hookup to our TV. I doesn't seem to recognized the second port or switched to a

Re: ATI 9600 Dual DVI

2011-05-23 Thread Wayne Garrett
I just want two On 5/23/11, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On May 23, 2011, at 3:37 PM, Wayne Garrett wrote: I can't get the other port to work with S-Video hookup to our TV. I doesn't seem to recognized the second port or switched to a resolution that doesn't work

Re: G5 1.8mhz spinning pinwheel

2011-05-17 Thread Wayne Garrett
I cleaned the SATA contacts, re-seated ram, did the Pram reset and now am still stuck when I tried to boot 10.5.8 from DVD. I will try Tiger and put it on a old SATA drive in the other bay. On 5/16/11, Wayne Garrett groge...@gmail.com wrote: My G5 mac (pci dual 1.8 2mgs ram 10.5.8 Has the mac

G5 1.8mhz spinning pinwheel

2011-05-16 Thread Wayne Garrett
My G5 mac (pci dual 1.8 2mgs ram 10.5.8 Has the mac chime, then the pinwheel hash marks. Next, the fans get faster and faster until max speed. I tried removing the Battery and putting it back in. This fixed it once. Now, no go. It does not want to boot from DVD either. It shuts off just

G5 1.8mhz spinning pinwheel

2011-05-16 Thread Wayne Garrett
I tried 10.4 Tiger and it boots fine. I tried disk repair and am getting incorrect # of threads It has tried repairing it twice now. We will see? 750gigs of data, most is backed up at least. On 5/16/11, Wayne Garrett groge...@gmail.com wrote: I tried 10.4 Tiger and it boots fine. I tried disk

Powerbook G4 Titanium troubles

2011-03-18 Thread Wayne Garrett
This computer is not booting reliably, and now the display is so dark you cannot see anything on the screen. A hing was broke, but I repaired that and it was working prior to the hing repair. Any ideas? -- Sent from my mobile device -- You received this message because you are a member of

Re: Powerbook G4 Titanium troubles

2011-03-18 Thread Wayne Garrett
not sure what you mean by not booting reliably. would you mind elaborating? Chance On Mar 18, 2011, at 10:02 PM, Wayne Garrett groge...@gmail.com wrote: This computer is not booting reliably, and now the display is so dark you cannot see anything on the screen. A hing was broke, but I

Re: hard disk transfer

2010-06-02 Thread Wayne Garrett
It should work just fine. If needed do a Archive and install. On 6/2/10, mlsimmons mlsimm...@aol.com wrote: I have been using a Yikes G4 with 1G ram and running Tiger 10.4.11 on a 80 gig hard drive for a long time now- tiger has slowed down the machine and youtube video is just too choppy

Re: MDD clock

2009-12-30 Thread Wayne Garrett
the trick when in doubt, replace the battery with a fresh one. Jeff On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Wayne Garrett groge...@gmail.com wrote: I have a 887 dual MDD that has a good pram battery, but still will not save settings after the computer gets unplugged. Any thoughts? -- Sent

MDD clock

2009-12-29 Thread Wayne Garrett
I have a 887 dual MDD that has a good pram battery, but still will not save settings after the computer gets unplugged. Any thoughts? -- Sent from my mobile device -- 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: Broadband (sort of) --- Laptop vs Desktop

2009-10-28 Thread Wayne Garrett
Get a cheap USB 2 pci card. This would fix your problem for under 20 bucks On 10/27/09, James Therrault jetas...@netzero.com wrote: Living out in the sticks has its disadvantages such as being stuck with dial up internet. Finally, I found a provider (3g) that gives me a solid unlimited

Re: A/V card for G4 MDD??

2009-10-07 Thread Wayne Garrett
Hey, I am looking for the same sort of thing. Let me know what you find. On 10/4/09, Jonas Ulrich jonasulrich3...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any sort of an audio video in and out card that will work with mac os x on a g4? Kinda like the ones that came in the beige g3. -Jonas -- Sent

G4 MDD 887 Graphics

2009-08-13 Thread Wayne Garrett
Does anyone know what the best graphics card for the above machine. Also where to get one for reasonable? -- Sent from my mobile device --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using

Re: Firefox 3.5.2

2009-08-11 Thread Wayne Garrett
Go to Safari 4 it is blazing fast. On 8/11/09, Lawrence David Eden lde...@comcast.net wrote: FF 2.5.2 is very slow on all the Macs in my house. One of the Macs is an Intel, the others are G4 or G5. For the time being, I have reverted to FF 3.0+ and it works fine. I tried FF on a

Re: iPod trouble?

2009-07-31 Thread Wayne Garrett
Yeh, ipods will sync with only 1 computer at a time. You'd have to wipe it to get it to sync with a diff. One On 7/30/09, CoolKat onecoolka...@earthlink.net wrote: I have a Clamshell iBook with firewire port and all my iPod does is charge when I plug it in... Is there some way to configure

Anolog to Digital

2009-07-15 Thread Wayne Garrett
Hey, I have a G4 MDD 887 Dual and want to copnvert old VHS to Mp4 or Quicktime format. What is the best hardware set up for this? I have seen reviews on Pinicle and a Fire wire one. -- Sent from my mobile device --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message

Re: Anolog to Digital

2009-07-15 Thread Wayne Garrett
..be sure if a 7200 rpm HD. any other question...ask! sorry for my english. NOTE: Some Old fashion Graphics Card from ATI came with RCA or analog captured port in a Mac version.*ebay it a good option for try to find it. On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Wayne Garrett groge...@gmail.com wrote

Re: ethernet port gone bad - need advise on adapter, etc. Please.

2009-07-13 Thread Wayne Garrett
Get a cheap Realtek NIC. PCI On 7/12/09, sam adopt...@nycap.rr.com wrote: G4 Sawtooth - 400, OS 10.4.8 We had a massive lightning storm last night and after reading a bunch of post and trying out 3 different cables I've come to the conclusion that I zapped my ethernet port. I'm a little

Re: ethernet port gone bad - need advise on adapter, etc. Please.

2009-07-13 Thread Wayne Garrett
Should work. My old B+W G3 worked with a PCI NIC installed with no drivers. On 7/13/09, sam adopt...@nycap.rr.com wrote: Thank you. This will install in one of the open slots? Sam On Jul 13, 2:28 am, Wayne Garrett groge...@gmail.com wrote: Get a cheap Realtek NIC. PCI On 7/12/09, sam

Re: PowerMac G3 wont boot after Tiger effort

2009-07-11 Thread Wayne Garrett
Use OWC program for backwards compatability. On 7/10/09, Nick Burman nbur...@gmail.com wrote: I tried installing Tiger on a Beige (yes it's beige) PowerMac G3. After the install failed, and I got a pile of error messages on the screen, I realised it wasn't worth the effort and now want to