Re: G4 won't finish booting

[Glen McKnight]

On 6 Mar 2018, at 08:26, Jörg Duurkoop wrote:

> 
> 
> Op vrijdag 23 februari 2018 16:28:25 UTC+1 schreef Diane:
> I have a 2003 G4 1.42DP (FW800)
> With the exception of a couple of hard drive replacements and a power supply 
> back in 2011, it's been bomb proof.
> The other day though, it started to shutdown on boot (it had been running for 
> weeks prior to this). I googled and found many references to this but mostly 
> with a display with a proximity sensor, which I do not have.
> I pulled it out of it's cubby and will clean it out, but I'd also like to 
> replace the battery while it's open. 
> What's the best place to buy them these days? I used to get them at Radio 
> Shack but they are no longer around.
> Worse case I have a couple of older machines that I suppose I can fire up and 
> put my drive in to get my data off, but ideally I'd like to get this going 
> again.
> Any thoughts? It just spins on the grey screen for a couple of minutes and 
> then shuts down. I usually screen share into it so I'm not sure if it was 
> doing something else prior. It did sound like it booted fully the fist time. 
> Earlier this week I had it up and running for awhile but it wasn't connected 
> to the network so that's when I shut it down and this happened.
> 
> Thanks
> Diane
> 
> Hi Diane,

Have you tried booting from the install DVD and running disk first aid?

It will assess the disk and you may repair if needed, and repair permissions.




Have Fun

Glen



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Re: Beige G3 startup problem

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> On 27 May 2016, at 04:33, Kris Tilford wrote:
> 
> On May 26, 2016, at 7:48 PM, parallel_imp  wrote:
>> 
>> As I was trying different PCI cards, it started to not respond to the power 
>> button.
> 
> I assume you’re saying “I think I shorted out the power supply & VRM” but did 
> you confirm either the power supply or VRM was bad?
> 
>> There were the correct power supply and VRM on eBay from my own city, so I 
>> got and installed them. G3 still would not boot from power button, but it 
>> would from keyboard.
> 
>> I removed the power button and swapped it for one from a G3 MT parts 
>> machine, and still no boot from the button. However, now the machine when 
>> shut down immediately reboots, whether with no button, original button or 
>> the MT button. I have to turn off the power strip to shut down, and it boots 
>> as soon as power strip is turned on. Thoughts? Did I fry a circuit on the 
>> motherboard?
> 
> Beige G3 are super finicky. The PRAM & NVRAM do NOT necessarily reset 
> correctly using keyboard commands. The easy solution would normally be to 
> remove the PRAM battery and press the CUDA reset button, BUT the beige has 
> capacitors in the power supply & VRM that leak residual power back into the 
> motherboard so that even with the PRAM battery & CUDA reset pushed the 
> PRAM/NVRAM do NOT reset.
> 
> The ONLY way to reset the beige back to original PRAM/NVRAM settings is to 
> remove the PRAM battery, and then also removed the power supply cables to the 
> motherboard, pull the VRM, THEN press the CUDA reset button. If it still 
> doesn’t work, let it sit 15 minutes with no PRAM battery or cables to the 
> motherboard, press the CUDA again and reassemble.
> 
> I know this sounds kooky, like overkill, but I have a lot of experience with 
> Beige G3’s and I’ve had many with crazy boot issues that “made no sense” 
> which were all solved by disconnecting all the power from the motherboard and 
> reseting with the CUDA reset button.
> 
I can't quite remember, but didn't the cuda button have to be held down for 20 
or 30 seconds. I remember it was in an awkward place to hold down for a while 
with the power board removed. It has been a long time since repaired one, which 
reminds me to dig out my 7300 and get that running again.


Have Fun

Glen



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Re: G5 thinks there are still two monitors attached, after removing one.

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On 22 Jun 2013, at 14:17, Valter Prahlad wrote:

 Il giorno 22/06/13 10.35, Tom ha scritto:
 
 Yesterday one of the two displays just suddenly went dark, like blowing out
 a candle. 
 LCD monitors (and many electronics devices built around 2003-2005) suffer
 from the bad capacitors plague:
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
 
 You can google 23 cinema display capacitors and see if some page helps you
 troubleshooting your problem.
 
 I disconnected the dead monitor and all its cables from the Mac.
 Are you sure there's no adapter still connected to the video card?
 It may trick the card into thinking a monitor is still there.
 
 When I open some windows, they go off the visible screen and open
 somewhere on the invisible one, on the non-existent monitor, and I can't
 get at them.
 Using the display menulet (the icon on the top menu bar), can you change the
 resolution of the ghost monitor, to a smaller one?
 This way, windows opening there might be still visible on the main monitor
 and movable.
 
 That's the best that I can think of right now. :-)
 


Hi

Have you tried resetting the pram, if this doesn't work try mirroring you will 
at least be able to see your missing windows.

Have Fun

Glen

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Re: DT Beige G3 to Sonnet G4 upgrade

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On 27 Mar 2013, at 17:47, peterh...@cruzio.com wrote:

 This strangeness was first discovered when attempting to install an
 official pre-release of OS X on my 300 MHz Beige G3 (machine revision 3C
 ... logic board revision 3; ROM revision C).
 
 The machine was so screwed-up by the (failed) OS X installation that it
 could not see any IDE drives.
 



There was also another board reset (only Beige G3s) involving taking out the 
small power board and holding the cuda (there was a time on it maybe 20 or 30 
seconds), I can't remember if removing the battery was involved or not it has 
been a very long time since I played around with one of these.

Have Fun

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Re: Flash work-around

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On 11 Dec 2011, at 22:02, Lawrence David Eden wrote:

 Listers,
 
 Where can I find the flash player plugin that has been mentioned recently?  
 Guess I should have kept my old mail.
 On my DA running 10.4.11 Flash no longer works.videos fail to load .  
 What a drag!
 
 
 Thanks,
 
 Larry
 
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Hi

As you have a PPC mac you will have to download Flash Player 10.1, It is almost 
impossible to find on the Adobe Website, I eventually found it in an archive 
for Flash Designers, it seems that PowerPC mac owners are no longer supported.

Here is the link: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/142/tn_14266.html

Have Fun

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Re: can't print from os9 classic from g4 mdd

[Glen McKnight]

On 13 Apr 2011, at 01:36, rumble wrote:


i have os 9 classic on my g4 mdd (running 10.4.11)

i managed to get some of my classic programs to my os 9 partition
(namely pagemaker 6.5)
and i can run pagemaker ok, but i can't get it to see my epson printer
on the os x system.

it doesn't show up in the chooser in os 9 and i can't seem to figure
out how else to get it to see the printer using any networking or
printr sharing in my os x prefs panels.

can someone help me get this happening?

thanks

--  


Hi

I have the same problem, I select laserwriter in the chooser and then  
in the print menu I save as a PS File (If you are running classic in  
system 10 it will open in preview and print, exactly as your original  
layout).


Have Fun

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Re: Hardware or Software Problem?

[Glen McKnight]

On 20 Sep 2010, at 22:59, Drew Anderson wrote:


Hello All,

I sometimes get a message on my G4 Sawtooth, You need to restart  
your computer. Hold down the power button for several seconds or  
press restart. in 4 or 5 languages. Is this  an OS glitch? Hardware  
problem? Memory problem? I've been getting the same message a lot on  
my G4 iBook as well.


G4 Sawtooth w/Sonnet 1.3Ghz dual core.
OS 10.4.11
1.5 GB RAM

Cheers,
Drew



Hello Drew

Try restarting your machines with an installer disk in and running the  
Disk Utility.app and see what turns up.


Have Fun

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Re: ITunes 10

[Glen McKnight]

On 7 Sep 2010, at 12:35, Nikki Wraith wrote:

It is an issue with how the version is listed. There is a plist edit  
that fixes it. Google will help you find the fix.




Thank you, this was the fix I needed to get my alarm back again, I  
also used the feedback as suggested by Kris Tilford.


Again thank you.


Have Fun

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Re: iTunes 10

[Glen McKnight]

On 10 Sep 2010, at 03:36, Kris Tilford wrote:


On Sep 9, 2010, at 6:40 PM, Nestamicky wrote:


do you have a How To to get this done...sounds interesting.


http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20100903004553923



Hello Kris

The link above will tell you how to get the Automator scripts to see  
iTunes 10.


But I use Automator to set volume to full, select a playlist then play  
itunes, save it as an application, drop it into the start-up items  
then set the Mac to Start up at whatever time I choose.


If you email me off list I will send you the 'workflow' I used, if you  
are using iTunes 10 then you will need the link above to alter 2  
Automator scripts.



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ITunes 10

[Glen McKnight]

Hello to all

For years I have been using itunes as an alarm clock, with Automator I  
could start itunes, select a playlist and have it wake me playing my  
favourite music, after saving as an application and dropping it into  
startup items.
Since updating to itunes 10 Automator doesn't recognise itunes (The  
action “Get Specified iTunes Items” could not be loaded because the  
application “iTunes” is the wrong version. Try upgrading the  
application to version 4.6 or later.)
Has anyone come across this or could someone please offer a suggestion  
(apart from going back to itunes 9) to get my itunes to act as an  
alarm clock again, I miss my gentle wake up to good music.


Thanks in advance

Glen

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Re: A question never asked? until now...

[Glen McKnight]

On 25 Nov 2009, at 14:12, Nestamicky wrote:

 On 11/22/09 4:41 PM, Glen McKnight wrote:
 I use mine fairly regularly, I use it to connect to others machines  
 and
 show them various things or watch them and tell them where they are
 going wrong, and of course I talk to my family and friends.
 Glen...how do you do this? I thought the camera only output video from
 your machine, but to see others' machine?


Hi

Under Leopard you can share screens in ichat, it means whilst  
screensharing you can watch or use your mouse and keyboard to work on  
the other mac.
You start a video conference and then invite them to share a screen,  
they have to give you permission.


Have Fun

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Re: A question never asked? until now...

[Glen McKnight]

On 21 Nov 2009, at 21:04, Jeffrey Engle wrote:


   I use an iSight camera

I do now, I tried some USB cameras but they never seemed to work when  
I moved to System 10.

I use mine fairly regularly, I use it to connect to others machines  
and show them various things or watch them and tell them where they  
are going wrong, and of course I talk to my family and friends.
Skype allows video conferencing as well.


Have Fun

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Re: wireless internet on G3 Ruby iMac

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On 22 Nov 2009, at 23:43, janespra...@comcast.net wrote:

 Is it possible to connect to the internet wirelessly with an old G3  
 iMac? If so, how do you do it?

 At present, I think using an Ethernet cord is the only way. But I am  
 hoping that I am wrong.

 jane


Hello Jane

Yes, depending on your imac - next to the memory slots is another slot  
for a carrier and airport card, but you will get a slow connection  
compared to ethernet, and ethernet is much more reliable.


Have Fun

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Re: Find Problems

[Glen McKnight]

On 8 Oct 2009, at 22:00, Clark Martin wrote:


 I just tried it (under 10.5.6).  Finder Find works okay but it doesn't
 find Hidden files.

 When you say you get nothing, what does that mean?  Pressing Command-F
 doesn't bring up the Find Window or you it doesn't find files?


 You could always use the shell find command.




When I use Command+F and Find (in the File Menu) I get no window at all.

I think you can find hidden files and folder by doing a custom search.


Have Fun

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Re: Formatting Mac Disk for a PC

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On 15 Oct 2008, at 03:09, dorayme wrote:


I stuck an unwanted but good 60GB IDE HD from my G4 Mac (that was
running Tiger fine) in my PC (which runs Win 2000 but the idea is to
run XP on this second 60GB drive) but it simply would not see it.
Never even showed up in My Computer. Thank God in a way because I
have not quite got a clue how to format it on a Winbox anyway, I was
kind of hoping a message would come up and say tis disk cannot be
read, wanna format it? And I would then click a button that says Yes.
But I dream ahead...

I am thinking to rip open my FW external case (used as BU for my
Mac), and yank out the 320GB job in there and temporarily stick in
the 60GB and reformat it as FAT32 and then see if the PC will see it.
What a fuss! Anyone got any better idea please?

(I use a PC for only one thing and that is to see what websites look
like on IE 6, 7 and now 8. I should get an Intel Mac, I know but
there seems to be some horrible sticky stuff on my wallet and I just
can't seem to yank it out of my back pocket no matter how hard I
try... g)

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Hi there

Why not stick it back in the Mac and format it there, there is an  
option to format as PC.

Have Fun

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