anyone had success putting an SSD in a G5 and getting the maximum speed out
of it? issues i'm aware of include the native SATA-1 interface, which will
limit speed to a theoretical max of 187.5 MB/s, regardless of how fast the
SSD itself is. the way around that is to use an expansion slot and
my main computer for office work is a QS'02 running tiger. i've been
using a DSL modem (Siemens Speedstream 4200) hardwired to e-net port
to connect to my ISP. i'd like to add FAX capability. i have an old
BestData 56USBMAC that i used to use with a PCI mac and OS9. but
there are no drivers
), and sometimes equally strange things were what
succeeded in resurrecting the computer. things that didn't seem to
make sense on the surface.
On Oct 14, 8:27 pm, ah...clem boneheads...@gmail.com wrote:
try starting it with the kybd unplugged. if that works, get another
kybd.
if not, try
sorry if my replies seem out of sync with your final post. the
thought police have me on double secret probation.
On Oct 14, 8:31 pm, dc dbc...@verizon.net wrote:
I'm up and running again. Thanks for all the great tips! I pulled out
just about everything: RAM, PCI cards, video card, then put
On Sep 8, 3:24 pm, Alexander Gomes alexcomputersolut...@gmail.com
wrote:
If you take the heat sink off, you HAVE to reapply the thermal paste. It
isn't an option.
on a G3? bull! weapons grade baloneyium!
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the last machine of mine in which i bothered to check CPU temps was a
UMAX S900 with a met@box G4/400 upgrade. compared to today's machines
the heatsink was small with a small fan attached. it consistently ran
at 87˚-91˚C, so i'd say that 70˚C is running VERY cool. i have a QS
dual 1gig, and
On Jul 27, 9:19 am, Maccountant gsuc...@gmail.com wrote:
Has anyone done this before? I purchased a Sonnet G4 1.8gz MDX for my
G4 single 1.25 MDD. It works fine but generates too much heat, even
with the built-in fan. I want to remove the heatsink and replace it
with an Apple copper one from
On Jul 5, 1:25 am, Tom tba...@nmia.com wrote:
Hey now, wait a minute. You mean this modem is also capable of running
a LAN? I thought a modem only connected to the Internet. I had no idea
it might be able to allow file sharing between computers as well.
in your very first post you stated,
welcome newbie. perhaps you have already learned the most important
lesson there is to learn about this list, - the advice is free, and
often worth exact what you paid. you will need to learn to sift
thru the answers to questions posted here. best of luck, and again,
welcome to the list.
ah
On Jun 15, 2011, at 10:41 PM, Tina K. wrote:
In theory does the SATA PCI card give higher bandwidth than the IDE/PATA
connections, or is it still limited by the bus speed?
On Jun 16, 12:15 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu
wrote:
The only communication link between the drives
when an OS installation is performed, near the end of the process a
message appears saying something like, optimizing the installation
for your system. does anyone know exactly what the installer is
doing during that time?
i'm thinking specifically of one example, - say the OS was installed
in a
probably a long-shot, but here goes . . .
my 60-something brother-in-law just switched from windows PC user to
his first Mac, a QS933 running 10.5.6, and i'm asking if there is
anyone in the springfield, OH area (drexel st) who would be willing to
go over and spend an hour or so (i guess?) showing
On Mar 24, 3:39 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu
wrote:
forget it. ah clem has a set belief system and mere facts will not dislodge
it. I'm done feeding the troll.
bruce, i respect your knowledge and i respect that you volunteer help
and advice to all who post to this list
On Mar 22, 3:09 pm, Daniel Stewart daniel.stewart...@gmail.com
wrote:
Not surprising that you have had hardware issues with the Intel Macs.
I have been doing service work on PCs for years and that is pretty
standard with intel based systems. I have to ask though with the
X86 Mac what on
On Mar 22, 7:10 am, JoeTaxpayer joetaxpaye...@gmail.com wrote:
Tina - you hit the nail on the head here. I was running Dual 1.25GHz
MDD G4 which I still love, 3 of them helping to keep my house warm.
The only thing they are slow at is the video encode. You Tube, no
issue. But the encode? 2-4
On Mar 22, 11:57 am, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu
wrote:
Oh puleeeze. You're claiming a dual 1.25 Ghz G4 on a 333 mHz bus can compare
to a Mac Pro (which at a MINIMUM has 2 2.66Ghz dual core Xeons with 667 Mhz
memory bus) with a few COMPILER TWEAKS??? (which tweaks, BTW,
On Mar 16, 4:17 pm, Jonas Ulrich jonasulrich3...@gmail.com wrote:
Apple has no reason to support all the different hardware out there.
However, if you buy the right hardware, it's pretty simple to install
Leopard or Snow Leopard on a PC. I currently run two Hackintosh's, one a
desktop and one
i want to convert a large analog audio library to digital format. the
analog sources are as clean as analog gets. i want high-end D/A
conversion that at the minimum exceeds the quality of the analog
source. i have been using macs for work and home for 20+ years, but
i've never used one for
On Mar 6, 2:01 pm, Baldassare Guzzo guz...@gmail.com wrote:
my iPhone is still better at web video then my Mac.
that's 'cause your iphone has a broadband connection to the internet.
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On Mar 6, 12:47 pm, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote:
Your computer is way too slow to do the streaming stuff.
how can that be possible? a QS w/ stock vid card plays DVD's with no
problems. how can internet video be more MB/sec than that when it's
way more compressed? it's got to be the
plays immediately, without issues on QS'02 w/ transplanted 867 CPU and
stock vid card, 10.4.11 and Safari 4.1.2, using DSL internet
connection. you must have bandwidth issues with your ISP. UICW,
could only require intelmac if an app was involved.
On Mar 4, 2:15 pm, Yersinia
On Feb 4, 3:51 pm, Chance Reecher cha...@reecher.net wrote:
Then there's the question of whether you want to trust a company with
your music and photos - a company that could potentially go defunct,
and take your data with them.
that's just part of the issue. not to sound TOO
On Feb 1, 10:58 pm, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote:
On Feb 1, 2011, at 9:48 PM, Jack Countryman wrote:
The one we worked on last belonged to a friend...he's still got
it...and its still liquid cooled. Label shows it as a dual 1.8.
No such thing. Someone must have swapped cases. If
hey all, - after some HD craziness, i purged all safari files from the
library and did a clean install of safari 4.1.3 (under X.4.11), and i
was able to import all of my bookmarks from the old library files.
but i can't find a way to import the old browsing history. anyone
know of a way to do
On Dec 29, 6:33 pm, Judith Berkowitz sfjb...@mac.com wrote:
It sounds extreme, but a very effective way to clear keyboard spills
is to put the kb upside down on the upper rack of the dishwasher and
run it through a cycle.
Dry it out thoroughly, as others have advised, and it's perfectly fine.
On Dec 29, 2:21 pm, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote:
Two days?
Two weeks?
ROFL
Water apparently takes a long time to evaporate in some areas on the
planet! I guess it's kind of like the way electrons flow at
different speeds off motherboards, when people are told to pull their
PRAM
do as john suggests, except let it sit for at least a day or even two
with all cables disconnected from mobo. make sure PRAM battery is
good before you reinstall it. no guarantee that it will in your case,
but i have personally seen this work.
On Dec 21, 7:14 pm, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com
hi all,
i run tiger on all my macs (G4's G5's) except for the 2010 intelmac
(10.6.4), but i have been thinking of getting 10.5 for the older
ones. however, i use a number of classic apps regularly, and i don't
remember if 10.5 supports the classic environment or not. i tried
checking the apple
On Dec 11, 9:44 pm, Dennis Myhand wrote:
Even if you got zapped, it would only be a momentary discomfort.
Lotsa voltage but notta lot of current...
JT
It only takes 50milliamps. That isn't a lot as it is.
wrong again. 50 mA causes no more than discomfort. it requires a
sustained
But don't subject the rest of the list to your bad
manners. And stupid tag lines are not against the list rules.
Attachments are. Grow up. Dennis Myhand
since my initial post to this thread, i have had a private exchange
with list nanny Paul Stamsen. i have been accused, because of my
Dija read the rules ah...clem?
No attachments. Simple as that.
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list moderator
wow. what a surprise. calling all nannies. let's circle the wagons
and fend off some valid criticism by deftly ignoring it while
mindlessly quoting from the rule book.
ya know, rules are made
On Nov 12, 11:51 pm, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote:
I got ASD 2.5.7 and upon booting and selecting the Thermal calibration is
says calibration not needed. And It will not allow the initiation of the
calibration operation, however the ASD 2.5.8 says not needed but will let me
try
On Nov 10, 4:31 am, MichaelP papa...@peak.org wrote:
I'm sensitive to and I object strongly to use of the word hijack to refer
to refer to posting an original request for friendly help and info from
exoerts if the request is written in some un-obvious way to contain hidden
reference to an
On Nov 10, 2:06 pm, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
fluxstrin...@gmail.com wrote:
Clem, Dude, Time out!
The idea is to build community at LEM not chase people away no matter what
you think about MichaelP your attitude and rudeness are against the grain
and just unacceptable.
The terms of use say
On Nov 4, 12:16 am, Tina K. penguir...@gmail.com wrote:
That might not be the case, I do remember some Apple model being
manufactured with too much thermal paste by mistake, but I don't
remember which model it was.
that was clearly a manufacturing mistake. i had a PB G4 1.67 hi-res
model,
we live in a rural area, and power outages occasionally last for
days. we have a generator for such situations, and i run all sorts of
electronics on them. BUT, you absolutely MUST have a high quality UPS
on any sensitive electronics, or you risk catastrophic failure. the
output of that
the boards are the same. period. you can certainly run a dual 800
from a QS 2001 in your '02 without any other modifications, and the
benefit is not only two processors versus one, the single 800 on the
QS 2002 (just like the single 733 on the QS 2001) has NO level 2
cache. none. there is a
no, no, no, and no. (i think that's enough nos.) the 1.8 and 2.0
models had different mobo clock speeds. you cannot swap a 1.8 for a
2.0. furthermore, if you replace one processor, sot only does it have
to be the same clock speed, it must be with a processor that is
identical to the other.
On Sep 19, 10:02 pm, Tina K. pengu...@gmx.com wrote:
How can the Windows users stand it?
u . . . they're WINBLOZE users. duh! how intelligent or
discriminating could they possibly be? they've already demonstrated
their willingness to eat s#*! and then beg for more. they're the kind
of
the problem in OSX is not the controller, it's the fact that there
isn't an OSX driver for that scanner. i'm not sure that the 2906
controller works with OSX either, but even if you got an OSX
compatible PCI/SCSI card, it still would not see the scanner in OSX.
there is a website that has hacks
so? you know, i still use netscape 7 regularly because it has a
decent HTML editor built-in and it was FREE. and it has been
unsupported for years. yet it still works just fine. when they
stop releasing upgrades of firefox for PPC, stop downloading them, and
keep using the one you have. the
i read the reviews on versiontracker, and they are not all favorable.
however, i wonder about the competence of those posting reviews. what
i want is an app that will help me find multiple copies of the same
file scattered in many folders and several HD. i have occasionally
been in a hurry and
On Aug 21, 6:33 pm, Eric Herbert wrote:
You can only go as fast as the drive can read or write, whichever
drive is slower. 3Gb/s is the maximum transfer rate the interface
is capable of. Translates out to roughly 300MB/s. The fastest hard
drives on the market are only capable of reading at
On Aug 12, 9:31 pm, Midnight rider coolmar...@gmail.com wrote:
Don't ever plug in a monitor bigger than 17 in a card that is less than
32MB, because you won't like the performance at all, and it might freeze.
That used to happen to me when I had my 23 dell plugged into my ATI rage
128 pro
On Jul 25, 12:50 pm, Eric Herbert goo...@hillcotechnology.com wrote:
With what you say you're doing with it, you're probably better off with an
Intel Mac Mini in all honesty. They've got a LOT more processing power, the
newer ones have better graphics power (due to not only a better
On Jul 25, 1:48 am, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote:
Anecdotal evidence says that the liquid-cooled G5 need to run
24/7/365, and the more often they're shutdown the quicker they have
issues with the coolant causing corrosion and leaks. The coolant needs
to circulate in order to
IIRC, i've read about the problems associated particularly w/ the
earlier models having a cooling system made by Delphi. supposedly
Apple then switched to a cooling system made by Panasonic. is it safe
to assume that all of the late '05 models with the dual-core
processors had the Panasonic
i've just been informed by a reliable source that OSX is a 32-bit
operating system, and because of that, no application can address more
than 2GB of RAM. if this is true, i am shocked. WTF is going on at
apple?? hyping 64-bit hardware for the past seven years and loading
it with a 32-bit OS???
crunching numbers.
On Jun 18, 8:00 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu
wrote:
On Jun 18, 2010, at 4:47 PM, ah...clem wrote:
i've just been informed by a reliable source that OSX is a 32-bit
s/reliable source/clueless wanker/
There, fixed it for yah.
In actuality it is both. up
how can you tell if it's booting the 32-bit kernel or 64-bit kernel?
btw, i am not a complete idiot. i wrote code 40+y ago, in fortran G
and IBM Turbo assembler (one step above 1s and 0s). at the time, i
had a moderate understanding of system level computing. but i haven't
done anything like
On Jun 10, 4:17 am, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote:
I'm not certain if this article will enable 4GB RAM for you, but I
suspect it will, if this is possible? Instead of reducing the memory,
as the title of this article references, you'd be increasing it instead:
On Jun 14, 2:24 pm, Len Gerstel lgers...@gmail.com wrote:
. . . how and where
to get a hold of some of these 1GB PC133 sticks without trolling
dumpsters for old Dell servers?
Easily and cheaply found on eBay. I just sold 8 1GB sticks for $30
shipped.
Problem is that registered sticks
On Jun 14, 2:24 pm, Len Gerstel lgers...@gmail.com wrote:
Problem is that registered sticks are keyed differently than regular
SD ram stick and will not fit in the slot. Even if you physically
modify the slot, the contacts will not line up. So they can not work
in a Mac.
Len
also
have a few mice with broken wires where cord exits the mouse. can't
see how to open mouse to cut and reconnect the wires. anyone know how
to pry open this chinese puzzle box? thx.
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On May 30, 7:58 pm, gifutiger gifuti...@gmail.com wrote:
Have you tried just connecting the Pioneer drive to the same cable and
port that the Seagate is connected?
Give it a try and see what happens.
thanks. but i did try the obvious. the cables are both good. had 2
HDs connected, no
hey all! i've been using an ACard 6290M PCI/SATA controller in a QS
for a while now, and it works beautifully with a 1TB Seagate (boot
disk) connected. but i just tried to connect a Pioneer DVD/CD drive
w/ SATA interface to the second SATA port on the ACard, and it is not
recognized, and it
On May 27, 6:23 pm, Larry Stotler larrystot...@gmail.com wrote:
Sonnet made a 1Ghz G4 upgrade. Unfortunately, it drops the bus speed
from 100Mhz to 66Mhz due to a bug in the chipset. These arent
available new tho.
i don't think so. while Sonnet did make a G4/1gig processor upgrade
(as
On May 28, 4:55 pm, dc dbc...@verizon.net wrote:
The Sonnet G4 500 is one of the best available upgrades for a BW or
Yikes.
contrary to that opinion, i have talked to several VERY knowledge
folks who all agree that Sonnet made the shabbiest line of processor
upgrades compared to any of their
On May 25, 2:20 am, Peter Haas peterh...@cruzio.com wrote:
A dual 1.0 GHz QS 2002 (or the processor from one in a DA) takes
about 1 hour to encode a DVD5.
A relatively fast Intel can do the same job in less than 12
minutes ... an 8-to-1 advantage to Intel.
The bottlenecks on the old
On May 24, 3:17 pm, killajay41889 jonathancasimir...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi im new to mac and i got a old G4 for 20 bucks and it works okay but
im really looking into upgradeing the cpu for something with a bit
more juice is there a way to do so
one other thing i forgot to mention. for my
because the
mobo was developed before the invention of the Altivec enhanced CPUs.
here's the URL you asked for:
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/accelerators/PowerLogix/PowerForce-ZIF/
ah...clem
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your mail server is asking for a password every two minutes because
you've set the preferences in your mail client (Apple Mail) to
automatically check the server for mail every two minutes. just
change your preferences in Apple Mail to never check automatically,
then it will only ask for your
the old saying has never been more true than today . . . there's
nothing more dangerous than a little bit of knowledge.
On Apr 22, 9:31 am, Richard Gerome onecoolka...@earthlink.net wrote:
That's probably what he is doing, I have a friend when he wants to fwd an
e-mail he ends up sending
i may be wrong, and no doubt someone will pounce on me if i am, but i
believe the GeForce 6800 for PC can be flashed to run on a mac. IIRC,
getting it to work in a QS would also involve taping over pins #3 and
#11 on the card. i seem to remember seeing details on this somewhere
on the web.
congrats. you snagged a great deal.
the temp you noted qualitatively w/ your fingers is quite normal for
the 1.0DP. also, if the CPU fan is disconnected or not working, the
computer will automatically shut down. you can see this for yourself
if you pull the leads to the fan off while it's
john keeps pushing his idea of a processor upgrade. makes me wonder
if he's the one trying to sell the 533. ;o) but again i would add
that it depends on WHAT you are using the sawtooth for. first, as in
all d=rt problems, increasing the speed by a factor of 4/3 equates to
decreasing the time
On Mar 7, 1:09 pm, skinnie andre.fa...@ua.pt wrote:
Currently it is running tiger,but I think it is a little slow (I think
it is the HDD fault)..
WHAT is slow? the OS seems slow to you, like launching apps? or some
particular application? are you using it for gaming? video editing?
I am
On Feb 20, 10:51 am, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu
wrote:
Why should we feel foolish?
because everyone except john musbach assumed i was an idiot who needed
to be told how annoying the fans are. everyone else could have just
given me enough credit to simply believe me when i
thanks to everyone who replied, but especially to john musbach, who is
the only person so far to actually answer my question. since i said
that it boots just fine after the mobo transplant, obviously i've had
the computer running with the fans on full. i might add here that i
know that the fans
hope youn's all will forgive my stoopid question. ok, so i put the
replacement mobo in a G5 DP, and it works fine. so next i'm supposed
to run the thermal calibration on the ASD disc, right? otherwise
what? the fans will run at top speed all the time? and that's bad
because? if it's just a
hi listers, - i have a G5 dual 2.0 tower (build date 12/04), but
system profiler says the computer has one processor, ie, one of them
is dead. how do i find out which one is the good one and which one
is
the bad one? i don't have the AHT disk for this machine. i tried
removing one then the
On Jan 28, 5:29 pm, Kasey Smith kasm...@gmail.com wrote:
Repeat posing doesn't help you get any more replies.
well, i don't assume that no reply means no one knows. maybe the some
who knows missed my first post because he/she has a life. so i guess
i will swap them and see what happens,
hi listers, - i have a G5 dual 2.0 tower (build date 12/04), but
system profiler says the computer has one processor, ie, one of them
is dead. how do i find out which one is the good one and which one is
the bad one? i tried removing one then the other, but the computer
will not power on unless
officially and according to many of the know-it-all sites, the last
compatible version of osx would be 10.4.11. however, if you plan to
drop coin on a CPU upgrade, i would recommend a powerlogix G3/1GHz.
there are good reasons why a G4 upgrade is problematic in a BW,
including things like being
while the PCI bus IS slower than the system bus, it is NOT the
limiting factor in data transfer to and from the HD. in a sawtooth,
the PCI bus speed is 33 MHz and the data path is 64 bits wide.
multiply (33,000,000 cycles/s) times (64 bits/cycle), and you get 2112
Mbits/s, and dividing by 8
On Sep 19, 12:33 pm, Timo Wirkman Virkkala wirk...@gmail.com wrote:
Could one swap processors from, say, a second-model Quicksilver G4 PowerMac
to serve as the processor of a first-model Quicksilver?
yes, you can swap the processors between QS'01 (733/867/800DP) and
QS'02 (800/933/1GHzDP)
unless you are going to use a new or nearly new drive, chances are
very high that the drive itself, NOT the interface, will be what
determines the speed of data transfer. older drives can be as low as
5 MB/s sustained internal transfer rate. only the newest drives will
have sustained internal
On Sep 9, 2:44 pm, Jonas Ulrich jonasulrich3...@gmail.com wrote:
for the price of a faster dual processor upgrade card, you could buy a way
way way faster dual g5.
-Jonas
true, and the advantages are not just in the CPU clockspeeds. when i
compare the QS/1GDP to a G5/2GDP, the difference is
just one small point, to a certain extent, you're comparing apples and
oranges, because IIRC, the QS/733 was one of the CPUs apple put out
with no backside cache. that makes a big difference. again, IIRC,
the DA/733s were much faster than the QS/733s for that very reason.
On Sep 8, 5:17 pm,
Bruce Johnson wrote:
Len and Andreas clearly have more recent experience than I on this
subject; I'd go with their recommendations and stick to the Dual 1 Gig.
i can only add my personal experience. i do not use the apps you
mention. i do use apps (gaussian and spartan) that do very CPU
On Sep 9, 2:34 pm, Len Gerstel lgers...@gmail.com wrote:
1) The apps are not dual processor aware. Most apps are. Even VLC
player is and will split the load across the 2 processors of a dual.
2) You are not doing anything with these systems while the apps are
running. Since they do not
On Sep 2, 10:29 am, Mac User #330250 macuser330...@gmx.net wrote:
At least the towers where competitive. The Power Mac G5 Late 2005 was so
advanced that the first Mac Pros where a backstep.
Cheers,
Andreas
when the G4 was first introduced, apple put together a small cluster,
24 machines i
, but i'm buying a used G5 to for $500 to replace the one that
died instead of a nehalem for $5000. i'll let all of the smart
folks above shell out their money so they can claim to have the newest
and best.
ah...clem
On Aug 14, 6:01 pm, Will S willsc...@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry, Shoot me now
a safer bet than others?
thanks as always for the knowledgable replies.
ah...clem
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i have an Adaptec 2940U2B in a G4/933 QS 2002 running OSX.4.11 and it
works flawlessly. the 2940U2B is essentially the same card as yours
except it is Apple branded. so long as you have the MAC version and
not a PC card that has been flashed, i'd say you should have no
problems at all.
ah
) then.
these last two are basic laws of any technology implementation, but
frequently forgotten.
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