Re: Spillage on keyboard - broken beyond repair?

2013-01-17 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
The more modern the (Apple) keyboard, the harder it is to strip it down to clean it. If you have a glued together one, they want you to buy a new one and be more careful in future! That solution will certainly work. But in the real world, we grudge paying £50 or so for a keyboard. There are

Re: Getting OS9.1 onto MDD

2012-04-30 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
- Dan. On Apr 30, 5:58 am, Ken Daggett kadagg...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 Apr 2012, at 21:30:28 PDT, Deiniol ap Deiniol wrote: The OS9 disc is a retail version AFAIK.  I also tried my iMac DV OS9 disc, out of curiosity (desperation!?) - that again tells me I have OS9 installedwhen I

Getting OS9.1 onto MDD

2012-04-29 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
I've just been playing with my dual 1.GHz MDD, currently with 512 memory (until I find my stock pile!). I want to set this up with a drive booting OS9 natively, and also to be able to use Classic in OSX Tiger. I partitioned an 80GB drive as 60/20, with a view to installing OS9 on one and Tiger

Re: Firewire 400 not working in G5 PowerMac

2011-09-27 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
Well tonight I decided to reinstall Tiger on the drive that the G5 shipped with, since I hadn't really done much with that in terms of installing software, having concentrated on the Leopard that I had put on the second HD and though the seller had done a clean and sensible install of OSX, I

Re: Firewire 400 not working in G5 PowerMac

2011-09-26 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
Well still no success with FW400 on the G5. Kris, I downloaded the update, but I'm somewhat loath to use it as I don't think it's an OS issue: I have both Tiger on the drive it came with, and Leopard on the SATA drive I put in. FW400 works in neither - if it worked in tiger but not Leopard then

Re: Firewire 400 not working in G5 PowerMac

2011-09-26 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
Well still no success with FW400 on the G5. Kris, I downloaded the update, but I'm somewhat loath to use it as I don't think it's an OS issue: I have both Tiger on the drive it came with, and Leopard on the SATA drive I put in. FW400 works in neither - if it worked in tiger but not Leopard then

Re: Firewire 400 not working in G5 PowerMac

2011-08-22 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
. I've had similar issues before, with both software and hardware   causes. Hardware is always someone tried to insert a FW400 plug upside- down, and since FW400 carries power it shorts out the port permanently   and it's dead forever. Hi Kris: Agreed, but I've still got power to my FW400's

Re: Firewire 400 not working in G5 PowerMac

2011-08-22 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
. I've had similar issues before, with both software and hardware   causes. Hardware is always someone tried to insert a FW400 plug upside- down, and since FW400 carries power it shorts out the port permanently   and it's dead forever. Hi Kris: Agreed, but I've still got power to my FW400's

Re: Firewire 400 not working in G5 PowerMac

2011-08-21 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
...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 firmware reset(does this reset the PMU?)

Re: Firewire 400 not working in G5 PowerMac

2011-08-21 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
...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 firmware reset(does this reset the PMU?)

Re: Firewire 400 not working in G5 PowerMac

2011-08-21 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
...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 firmware reset(does this reset the PMU?)

Re: Moribund G4 iBook - and will the DVD drive fit in my MacBook?

2011-07-28 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
On Jul 27, 3:02 am, Jim Scott jesco...@gmail.com wrote: On Jul 26, 2011, at 6:28 PM, Deiniol ap Deiniol wrote: I've been given an iBook G4 to look at.  This was apparently working fine then 'died'. It is a 1.2GHz, with 256MB memory, 80GB hd and combo drive. Try an Open Firmware set

Moribund G4 iBook - and will the DVD drive fit in my MacBook?

2011-07-26 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
I've been given an iBook G4 to look at. This was apparently working fine then 'died'. It is a 1.2GHz, with 256MB memory, 80GB hd and combo drive. When turned on there is no 'bong', and no illumination of the display (although when I tried it yesterday after removing the battery for 24 hours (saw

Re: jumper settings on optical drives

2011-02-17 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
Interesting info thanks peterh... Just to close this thread, (although it seemed too have died anyway!) I was having a problem with the new DVD drive tray fouling the gap in the MDD case, (I had done all testing with the cage loose and accessible, and the MDD opened to the elements). As it was

jumper settings on optical drives

2011-02-03 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
Hi Group: When I got my dual 1.2GHz MDD a few months ago, I found it had two optical drives fitted, although only the upper one was functional. Clicking the 'open drive' icon showed one drive: the button always opened the top one and sometimes the lower one would open too. As I had it out of

Re: How to test PRAM battery?

2011-02-02 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
On Feb 2, 10:55 pm, Tina K. penguir...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011/02/02 15:53, J.M.P.Hissel so eloquently wrote: On 02-02-2011 21:14, Yersinia,yersi...@myfairpoint.net, wrote:  and you buy a new one that tests good (with a voltmeter) No, a voltmeter is useless! You'll need a

Re: help, i'm going deaf!

2011-01-19 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
Hi Jeff Daile. What have you got the Skype volume control set at? If it was set very low then you would have to turn up the system volume up to be able to hear Skype calls. I normally have my Skype volume control about halfway, and system volume about 3/4 and this works. HTH, Dan -- You

Re: help, i'm going deaf!

2011-01-19 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
Hi Jeff Daile. What have you got the Skype volume control set at? If it was set very low then you would have to turn up the system volume up to be able to hear Skype calls. I normally have my Skype volume control about halfway, and system volume about 3/4 and this works. HTH, Dan -- You

Re: Can I boot a quicksilver off an internal SCSI drive?

2010-12-06 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
Hi Dana, Pleased to say you inspired me, so I just whipped the Atto UL2D SCSI card and the 80GB drive out of the old 733 QS tonight, and stuck it into the 933. Went ahead and tried a Leopard install from the Time Machine drive. Absolutely no problem at all, everything went

Re: Word list Generator???

2010-12-01 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
On Dec 1, 6:36 pm, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio fluxstrin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio fluxstrin...@gmail.com wrote: So who are the Neal Stephenson fans on this thread ?? Is that the Neil Stephenson who wrote In the beginning was the command

Re: Word list Generator???

2010-12-01 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
On Dec 1, 6:36 pm, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio fluxstrin...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio fluxstrin...@gmail.com wrote: So who are the Neal Stephenson fans on this thread ?? Is that the Neil Stephenson who wrote In the beginning was the command

Can I boot a quicksilver off an internal SCSI drive?

2010-12-01 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
My latest Quicksilver is a 933 G4 with 1.5GB memory, running 10.4.11. I've installed a 120GB first drive, along with another 120GB drive which was the Time Machine drive for the Leopard that came on its original 60 GB hard drive. I fancy transferring the SCSI card from my 733 QS along with its

Re: Writing on the wall...

2010-08-26 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
On Aug 26, 4:48 am, Illirik Smirnov illir...@gmail.com wrote: Oh. That could be a problem for you. You could always just use another browser, like Opera or Konqueror (I have a love/hate relationship with Safari. Don't ask.) Sent from a computer running either the SPARC, Itanium, or PowerPC

Re: Writing on the wall...

2010-08-26 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
On Aug 26, 4:48 am, Illirik Smirnov illir...@gmail.com wrote: Oh. That could be a problem for you. You could always just use another browser, like Opera or Konqueror (I have a love/hate relationship with Safari. Don't ask.) Sent from a computer running either the SPARC, Itanium, or PowerPC

Re: G4 video card compatibility

2010-07-12 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
Eric Herbert wrote: The card will work in a Sawtooth, but it will NOT run an ADC monitor. The Gigabit and later models all have an extra power port just ahead of the AGP slot that supplies the 28V to the ADC port. You CAN however run an ADC-DVI adapter and have a DVI monitor connected.

G4 video card compatibility

2010-07-11 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
I've just got a 400MHz Sawtooth which has the VGA/DVI video card fitted. It works fine, but I'd like to swap the video card for the one out of my (dead!) 450 MHz Sawtooth, as I want the Sawtooth to talk to an ADC monitor. (I may be buying one, but need to test it as working so I need to take a

Re: G4 video card compatibility

2010-07-11 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
Sorry just got the magnifying glass out and this ADC card is from a 466 MHz Digital Audio, not a Sawtooth! On Jul 12, 3:05 am, Deiniol ap Deiniol autolycus.mercat...@googlemail.com wrote: I've just got a 400MHz Sawtooth which has the VGA/DVI video card fitted.  It works fine, but I'd like

Re: G4 video card compatibility

2010-07-11 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
Sorry just got the magnifying glass out and this ADC card is from a 466 MHz Digital Audio, not a Sawtooth! On Jul 12, 3:05 am, Deiniol ap Deiniol autolycus.mercat...@googlemail.com wrote: I've just got a 400MHz Sawtooth which has the VGA/DVI video card fitted.  It works fine, but I'd like

Re: G4 video card compatibility

2010-07-11 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
Sorry just got the magnifying glass out and this ADC card is from a 466 MHz Digital Audio, not a Sawtooth! On Jul 12, 3:05 am, Deiniol ap Deiniol autolycus.mercat...@googlemail.com wrote: I've just got a 400MHz Sawtooth which has the VGA/DVI video card fitted.  It works fine, but I'd like

Re: G4 video card compatibility

2010-07-11 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
Sorry just got the magnifying glass out and this ADC card is from a 466 MHz Digital Audio, not a Sawtooth! On Jul 12, 3:05 am, Deiniol ap Deiniol autolycus.mercat...@googlemail.com wrote: I've just got a 400MHz Sawtooth which has the VGA/DVI video card fitted.  It works fine, but I'd like

Re: Quicksilver won't boot into target disk mode

2010-04-01 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
Hi LISTERS, WELL Thanks for all helpful suggestions so far HD is a 40GB Seagate ST340014A, presumably the original. At present there is no jumper on the back so I assume that's running as Cable Select? I know about jumpering HD's from my days on the Dark Side, but since most

Re: Quicksilver won't boot into target disk mode

2010-04-01 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
Hi LISTERS, WELL Thanks for all helpful suggestions so far HD is a 40GB Seagate ST340014A, presumably the original. At present there is no jumper on the back so I assume that's running as Cable Select? I know about jumpering HD's from my days on the Dark Side, but since most

Quicksilver won't boot into target disk mode

2010-03-29 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
Recently got a 733MHz Quicksilver, which initially was unwilling to boot at all, although I had seen it working, when I bought it. After fitting new PRAM battery and CUDA update, it would initially start to boot and then turn off. It gradually started getting further along until it would boot

Re: 1.25 eMac running in safe mode.

2010-03-25 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
Well tonight I tried this fix, proposed by Sri and IT WORKS BY GAD! Any users of British keyboards will find the backtick ` next to the letter Z on the keyboard BTW. The eMac now starts fine, and runs well. I tried looking at a WMV file using VLC and it runs but doesn't show any video, so I

Re: 1.25 eMac running in safe mode.

2010-03-19 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
Hi Sri... That's really useful information you give me there - I was wondering why the beast is so docile in safe mode, when it totally hangs in normal boot! I shall definitely play with this when I've cleared a little space on the bench for it: it's been put out of the way for now

Re: 1.25 eMac running in safe mode.

2010-03-13 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
Does it pass AHT? Well I finally ran to earth my Apple Hardware test disc for eMac. Unfortunately the eMac it came with was a 1GHz or earlier (SW version 1.2.2s/n 691-4177-A) so when I restarted with the CD it said that it could not run and offered me a restart. So no further on.

Re: 1.25 eMac running in safe mode.

2010-03-13 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
Does it pass AHT? Well I finally ran to earth my Apple Hardware test disc for eMac. Unfortunately the eMac it came with was a 1GHz or earlier (SW version 1.2.2s/n 691-4177-A) so when I restarted with the CD it said that it could not run and offered me a restart. So no further on.