Re: DA G4 will not shut down

2014-01-30 Thread gifutiger
Greetings, My guess is that you don't want to fix your problem. I say this because there is only one way to fix your problem and I list them below. 1. Remove all of the cards in your machine except the video card, restart holding down the "Cmd, Opt, P & R" keys until you hear the start-up chime

Re: Eudora replacement

2014-01-21 Thread gifutiger
I used Eudora mail a long time ago, it was just the best. Then I changed to Apple Mail since it was integrated into the Mac OSX operating system. I was Okay with it until OSX 9.x.x it was a mess, then OSX 10.1.x and not it is the worst client eMail around. Like the other responders I would use

Re: Mail corruption issue

2013-08-20 Thread gifutiger
Greetings, If you haven't tried this yet it might just work. When I've had mail problems it has worked for me. In your home folder go to Library/Mail and you will find a file called Envelope Index. With the Mail Application closed change the name of this file to bak.Envelope Index (which will

Re: G5 kernal panic, anyone want to decipher?

2013-08-01 Thread gifutiger
On Wednesday, July 31, 2013 10:54:24 AM UTC-7, a1 wrote: > > G5/1.8 dual. I had just watched a youtube video via perian and was > opening iTunes when this happened [er exactly what happened?] > > Interval Since Last Panic Report: 4611287 sec > Panics Since Last Report: 2 > Anonymous U

Re: G5 kernal panic, anyone want to decipher?

2013-08-01 Thread gifutiger
Perhaps you might want to get this program which will stress test your CPU's to find out if they are having a problem. There a many choices so be sure that you get the correct one. http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft/ Cheers Harry Freeman San Jose, CA On Wednesday, July 31, 2013 10:54:24 AM UTC-7,

Re: Web sites suddenly blocked

2013-04-30 Thread gifutiger
Greetings, DNS stands for "Directory Name Server" and has nothing to do with your router. "OPEN" is just the name of a server, and there are lots of DNS units throughout the world. The primary ip address for OPEN is 208.67.222.222 and the secondary ip address is 208.67.220.220 The purpose of

Re: My Quicksilver Dual 1GHz G4 has gone bizerk ...

2012-12-26 Thread gifutiger
Greetings, This may or may not be related, I have a MDD 1.25Gh dual processor that was having a similar problem and I traced it (logs) to the fact that one processor was trying to hand-off a process to the other processor and it didn't respond. The log said something like "waiting for the other

Re: My Quicksilver Dual 1GHz G4 has gone bizerk ...

2012-12-26 Thread gifutiger
Greetings, This may or may not be related, I have a MDD 1.25Gh dual processor that was having a similar problem and I traced it (logs) to the fact that one processor was trying to hand-off a process to the other processor and it didn't respond. The log said something like "waiting for the other

MDD G4 odd start/restart behavior - new video card

2012-12-11 Thread gifutiger
Greetings, If you need drivers you should be able to get them on ATI web page. When I was using my G4 AGP Graphic 400 I need to install the drivers (I think there was2) before everything worked Okay. Well my problem was, if the system went to sleep upon wake up the screen was scrambled, and the

Re: iTunes G3 radio playlist servers?

2012-08-15 Thread gifutiger
Here is a page that gives a step by step on how to locate ip radio stations and put them into your iTunes. Perhaps it will also work with older versions of iTunes. http://www.macinstruct.com/node/101 Cheers Harry San Jose -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a gr

Re: iTunes G3 radio playlist servers?

2012-08-13 Thread gifutiger
On Sunday, August 12, 2012 6:16:27 AM UTC-7, Kris Tilford wrote: > > On Aug 12, 2012, at 8:08 AM, Dan wrote: > > > What a retarded Apple move. Bad enough that they made the change, > > but to do it without any sort of announcement / warning How > > does that say, in any way, that

OS 10.5 Problem

2012-07-17 Thread gifutiger
Greetings, I would recommend that the firs thing to do is reset "PRAM" and "NVRAM" and see if that helps! Harry -- 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 htt

Testing HD Performance & RAM In MDD Under X.4 or X.5

2012-07-17 Thread gifutiger
Greetings, I recommend using "applejack" however be sure that when you do the install that you CHECK the box that says install memory test. Cheers Harry -- 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 f

DVD won't eject

2012-07-16 Thread gifutiger
Here is what you should read and "Bookmark" in case you.have this problem again. http://www.macinminutes.co.uk/express_tips/ejecting_stuck_disc.html It's called 16 Tips on Ejecting a stuck Slot Loading DVD Cheers Harry -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group

Re: G5 Constant HD activity

2012-03-18 Thread gifutiger
John, If it is your "Spotlight" then click on the "Spy Glass" in the upper right corner and you should see a message that "Spotlight" is indexing your system. If you have more than one drive then the message will say which drive is being indexed. Cheers Harry San Jose, Ca On Saturday, March

Re: PM G5: When booting the DVD drive opens up

2012-03-18 Thread gifutiger
Va;ter. Try a PRAM and VRAM reset and see what happens. Cheers Harry San Jose, Ca On Saturday, March 17, 2012 3:22:19 PM UTC-7, Valter Viglietti wrote: > > Hi all! > > My PM G5 2.7 DP goes generally fine, but it has some quirks now and then. > > This one is quite odd: once in a while (let's say

Re: Safari Bookmark Bar

2012-03-14 Thread gifutiger
Thanks Dan that was the problem. Cheers Harry ("`-''-/").___ ..- -''"`.. _ ( 6_ 6 )`-.( ``-._.-`) (_Y_.)'._ ) `._ `.'``-..-' ` `_..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' ,-'' ((((,' (((.-

Safari Bookmark Bar

2012-03-13 Thread gifutiger
Greetings This may be the wrong place to post this question, if so would someone please point me to the correct Group. My Safari Bookmark Bar used to have one of those triangles next to the item on the par if it was a folder and had Bookmarks inside. Well something happened and the triangles hav

Re: Airport dilemma

2012-01-30 Thread gifutiger
Greetings Roger. You need to connect to your router and find out why it is not letting you connect. If you don't know how to connect to your router let us know the brand and model and someone will furnish you the i.p. address that will allow you to connect (though you browser) to the router. Che

Re: Problems with MDD Freezing Up

2011-11-19 Thread gifutiger
Greetings, There should be some kind of indication as to why your platform is freezing in the "Console Log" You'll find the Console log in your "Utilities" folder. When you restart after a "freeze" open the console log and perhaps you'll find out what was happening just prior to the freeze. Cheer

Re: Optical Audio Port continuously lit up on PowerMac G5 = NO internal speaker output = NO chime

2011-11-04 Thread gifutiger
Greetings, The problem is actually caused by a little switch inside the jack that gets stuck. When you stick in an audio cable, it pushes the switch down. If it's an analog cable, the end is made of metal. If it's optical, the end is made of plastic. If the switch is pressed down, the computer che

Re: Password protect?

2011-11-03 Thread gifutiger
Greetings Jeffery, Jeffery after you have created (formatted) the disk and mounted it on the desktop, highlight the disk and then do a get info. When the disk info window appears click on the "Lock" and enter your administrator name and password. At the bottom of the info window you will see a pai

Re: Ralink RT3072 802.11 b/g/n driver

2011-10-24 Thread gifutiger
Dan, This link will get you everything you need. http://www.ralinktech.com/en/04_support/license.php?sn=5006 Cheers Harry ("`-''-/").___ ..- -''"`.. _ ( 6_ 6 )`-.( ``-._.-`) (_Y_.)'._ ) `._ `.'``-..-' ` `_..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' ,-'' ,' (((.-' fl On O

Re: Sad day...

2011-10-06 Thread gifutiger
Greetings, Oh so true, it's been a long time since I've seen Steve Jobs in downtown Los Gatos, and now for sure there will never be another opportunity. If you haven't seen it go to the LSJU (Leland Stanford Junior University) WEB page and watch the Graduation Speech that Steve Jobs gave. http://

Re: Mail Sent Box empty

2011-09-30 Thread gifutiger
Greetings, In your home account, Library/Mail move the file Envelope Index to the Desktop and then open your mail account. When Mail opens you will get a screen almost like it is the first time you have opened mail. Then there will be a period that the system is rebuilding all of the mail boxes.

Re: 10.5.8 G4 Won't restart

2011-08-12 Thread gifutiger
I started having the about the same problem, however my MDD boot time was about 5 minutes. Turns out resetting the PMU fixed shutdown and the slow boot. I was also having the problem that the system wouldn't wake from sleep and the main "Firewire 400" stopped working. Well all is right now. 1. Sh

Re: I cloned OSX 10.4 from a G4 to a G5, and G5 doesn't boot

2011-08-11 Thread gifutiger
That's a good idea, however it the receiving platform doesn't have a open disk that the disk image can be installed on then it's a wast of time. Or unless the receiving platform's disk can be split into two disk it would work. The "Disk Image" can not be installed onto the active disk. Cheers Har

Re: Removing Heat Sink from Sonnet G4 upgrade card

2011-07-30 Thread gifutiger
Greetings, I couldn't find anywhere in your posting which stated that you have "Temperature Monitor" installed in your platform. Without some kind of a Temperature monitor installed all that you are going by is the sound of the FANs. The MDD will turn it's fans on full if the Temperature monitors

Re: MDD Can not find Boot Disk

2011-07-11 Thread gifutiger
n Jose, Ca On Jul 2, 6:59 am, gifutiger wrote: > Greetings, > > I've given up researching this problem and hopping one of you may have > some suggestions. > > I recently acquired a MDD: Hardware Overview: > >   Model Name:   Power Mac G4 >   Model Identifier:     P

MDD Can not find Boot Disk

2011-07-02 Thread gifutiger
Greetings, I've given up researching this problem and hopping one of you may have some suggestions. I recently acquired a MDD: Hardware Overview: Model Name: Power Mac G4 Model Identifier: PowerMac3,6 Processor Name: PowerPC G4 (3.3) Processor Speed: 1.25 GHz Number O

Re: OpenDNS or Google Public DNS?

2011-05-29 Thread gifutiger
Greetings, Bruce take a look at http://code.google.com/p/namebench/ it is an Open- source DNS Benchmark Utility. It has a lot of features that help in finding the best DNS for your locality. Cheers Harry San Jose, Ca On May 28, 1:56 pm, Bruce Johnson wrote: > Which do you all prefer? > > I had

Re: Applications fail to launch

2011-05-23 Thread gifutiger
Greetings, What does your "Console Log" say when you try launching an application. There should be lots of clues in the log as to the problem. Cheers Harry San Jose, Ca ("`-''-/").___ ..- -''"`.. _ ( 6_ 6 )`-.( ``-._.-`) (_Y_.)'._ ) `._ `.'``-..-' ` `_..`--'_..-_/ /-

Re: Malfunctioning ATA Drive

2011-05-07 Thread gifutiger
Greetings Can we assume that this configuration did work and that it has failed recently or is this something that has been added? If the drive did work and has recently failed, what has changed or been changed in your platform? Have you tried plugging the drive directly into one of the internal D

Re: Spinning ball after reinstall

2011-04-20 Thread gifutiger
Greetings, After using Disk Utilities why are you reinstalling? After using DU's check the Disk Ownership to make sure that you are still the owner. Cheers Harry ("`-''-/").___ ..- -''"`.. _ ( 6_ 6 )`-.( ``-._.-`) (_Y_.)'._ ) `._ `.'``-..-' ` `_..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,

Re: "extra" connector on AGP card with ADC output

2011-03-16 Thread gifutiger
Greetings To see a complete description of the AGP connector see: http://www.ertyu.org/steven_nikkel/agpcompatibility.html Cheers Harry ("`-''-/").___ ..- -''"`.. _ ( 6_ 6 )`-.( ``-._.-`) (_Y_.)'._ ) `._ `.'``-..-' ` `_..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' ,-'' ,' (((

Re: MDD problem

2011-02-13 Thread gifutiger
Greetings I know that a lot has been said about your problem, and the CUDA, however may I suggest that you take a look at this WEB page: http://resale.headgap.com/g4powersupply/ Cheers Harry San Jose, Ca ("`-''-/").___ ..- -''"`.. _ ( 6_ 6 )`-.( ``-._.-`) (_Y_.)'._ ) `

Re: Power Supply

2011-02-10 Thread gifutiger
Greetings, So sorry #2. should have included "Adaptor Cable" which connects the Antec 430 Watt Power Supply's cable to the Mac. Cheers Harry San Jose, Ca On Feb 10, 8:46 am, gifutiger wrote: > Greetings Diane > &g

Re: Power Supply

2011-02-10 Thread gifutiger
Greetings Diane Before you trash your trusty Mac have a look at this option. 1. Purchase a Antec 430 Watt Power Supply, about $50.00 2. Purchase from Donald Hall, http://atxg4.com/ about $13.00 >From what is posted it seams like about a 2-4 hour job to remove the old PS and install the new one.

Re: Help Me Please

2011-02-02 Thread gifutiger
Greetings Macintosh: System Error Codes Explained http://support.apple.com/kb/TA44464?viewlocale=en_US Cheers Harry San Jose, Ca ("`-''-/").___ ..- -''"`.. _ ( 6_ 6 )`-.( ``-._.-`) (_Y_.)'._ ) `._ `.'``-..-' ` `_..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' ,-'' ,' (((.-' fl

Re: Reinstalling OS 9.2.2 and OSX 10.3

2011-01-14 Thread gifutiger
e4 MX video card but once the loading process is handed over to the incomplete operating system it doesn't know how to communicate with the NVIDIA GeForce4 MX. Cheers Harry San Jose, Ca On Jan 12, 9:52 am, gifutiger wrote: > Greetings everyone, > > Trying to reinstall (or call it

Reinstalling OS 9.2.2 and OSX 10.3

2011-01-12 Thread gifutiger
Greetings everyone, Trying to reinstall (or call it NEW) OS 9.2 and OSX 10.3 on one of my ATA drives. Right now it is slotted as the second main drive in my PowerMac G4 AGP Graphics. The platform is up-graded to 2 Gb. Ram, Processor up-grade to 1.2 Mhz, ACARD 6280M Drive host controller, 1 ea. 30

Re: RJ 45 Aggravation Update

2010-12-20 Thread gifutiger
Greetings May I ask if you have a pair of RJ-45 crimpers? They usually include a place to cut the cable prior to laying the wires into the RJ-45 connector. Cheers Harry San Jose, Ca ("`-''-/").___ ..- -''"`.. _ ( 6_ 6 )`-.( ``-._.-`) (_Y_.)'._ ) `._ `.'``-..-' ` `_..

Re: Restoring mail in the mailboxes

2010-12-17 Thread gifutiger
Greetings Tom If you have your disk, backed up you might try this procedure. 1st open all of your mailbox's using the triangle next to "ON MY MAC" then select the first mailbox, hold down the "Shift Key" and then select the last mailbox before the Imported mailbox. Then depress the "Delete" key,

Re: more than a flag?

2010-11-29 Thread gifutiger
Greetings ( + )!( + ) That's an easy question to answer. Select, highlight the eMail that you want to color then select from the menu bar "Format" and from the drop-down select "Show Colors" and when the Color Platen opens select the color that you would like for that message. Cheers Harry San J

Re: .PDF from iPhoto event? is it possible?

2010-11-27 Thread gifutiger
Greetings Jeff ( + )!( + ) Jeff take a look at this page, perhaps the application "Creating a PDF from HTML help docs with PDFpenPro 5" might be what you are looking for or perhaps the WEB Page owner can help. http://blog.smilesoftware.com/ Cheers. Harry San Jose, Ca ("`-''-/").___ ..- -''"`.

Drag and Drop in eMail

2010-11-15 Thread gifutiger
On my G4, OS X 10.5.8, eMail 3.6 when I'm in eMail if I want to search for every occurrence of an eMail, in either: From; To; Subject, whether in All Mailboxes or the current Mailbox I can drag and drop the From: or To: directly to the search tab and the system will locate all of the eMails that ha

Re: Dead Drive?

2010-10-31 Thread gifutiger
Greetings, If your Disk Utilities can see the new disk, select the disk and click on "info" and tell us what it says! If you are able to see and select the drive then use "erase" before trying to partition the disk! If that doesn't work then tell us the exact system response, Cheers Harry San Jo

Re: New install of OS 10.4 on G5 iMac

2010-09-09 Thread gifutiger
Greetings, Iamanamma, it sounds like you have tried everything, however if I my suggest, 1. Reboot and do a PRAM reset. 2. Reboot and do a NVRAM reset. 3. Reboot to Install disk. 4. Not sure about 10.4.x as I've never had that version, however on 10.3.x and 10.5.x there is an install option that

Re: Essential utilities for G4 powermac

2010-08-26 Thread gifutiger
Greetings. On Aug 25, 3:36 am, Matevž Markovič wrote: > I would highly recommend  Applejack. But I think it can only be installed on > the boot drive. Also ClamXav would not hurt - we live in dark times, and is > getting darker, even for macs :) I think Applejack can be installed on any and al

Re: CCC image bootable?

2010-08-26 Thread gifutiger
Greetings What is a CCC image, CCC copies one disk to another, its not a image, it is a CLONE I can not find any option in CCC to make an image. Images are made if you use Apples Disk Utility, If you make a xxx,img using Disk Utility you can open (mount) the xxx.img as a disk or restore it to a di

Re: Downclock Powermac G4 mdd

2010-08-26 Thread gifutiger
Greetings, For an answer to all or most of your questions, see: http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/systems/g4_mirrored_drive_doors/noise_reduction/g4_ddr_noise_reduction.html Cheers Harry San Jose, Ca. On Aug 24, 2:55 am, Matevž Markovič wrote: > Hello! > >

Re: Install script for fresh OS install?

2010-08-03 Thread gifutiger
Greetings, I've never tried this, but I would think that once you have installed Leopard that you can just shut down the platform and when it is restarted it will return to the same screen where it was when shut down. You may not get a shutdown button, just do a force shutdown with the power key.

Re: Install script for fresh OS install?

2010-08-03 Thread gifutiger
Greetings, I've never tried this, but I would think that once you have installed Leopard that you can just shut down the platform and when it is restarted it will return to the same screen where it was when shut down. You may not get a shutdown button, just do a force shutdown with the power key.

Re: Fresh out of ideas on .dmg mounts

2010-07-06 Thread gifutiger
Greetings Again This is what my mount point looks like when using the ls -la command. Starting with cd / using the root login drwxrwxrwt@ 7 root admin 238 Jul 6 07:12 Volumes Then moving to by "cd /Volumes" and again using ls -la drwxrwxrwt@ 7 root admin 238 Jul 6 07:12 . drwx

Re: Fresh out of ideas on .dmg mounts

2010-07-06 Thread gifutiger
Greetings Starting with the Disk that your .dmg files are being stored, select (highlight) then get info, and tell us who has what permissions. If you are the administrator for the system and you don't have "Read & Write" permissions, unlock the permissions (a lock icon) and then select your user

Re: CD Music

2010-07-03 Thread gifutiger
gt; On Jun 24, 2010, at 5:02 PM, gifutiger wrote: > > > I just opened my iTunes and it says all of my songs are "AAC audio > > file" does that mean that they are "AIFF" > > Forget the format, this has nothing whatsoever to do with burning the disk; > iT

Re: CD Music

2010-06-24 Thread gifutiger
I just opened my iTunes and it says all of my songs are "AAC audio file" does that mean that they are "AIFF" Cheers Harry San Jose, Ca On Jun 24, 4:53 pm, gifutiger wrote: > Thanks to everyone, I guess that I should

Re: CD Music

2010-06-24 Thread gifutiger
ard 10.5 and iTunes on my Macbook running Snow Leopard 10.6 and none of the CD's will play on the Toshiba. Cheers Harry San Jose, Ca On Jun 24, 10:01 am, gifutiger wrote: > Greetings G-Group > > I know that this might be the incorrect place to post this question > but I'

Re: CD Music

2010-06-24 Thread gifutiger
On Jun 24, 2010, at 10:01 AM, gifutiger wrote: > > > > > > > Greetings G-Group > > > I know that this might be the incorrect place to post this question > > but I'm hopping that someone can point me to the correct location. > > > I have some music th

Re: CD Music

2010-06-24 Thread gifutiger
--- On Jun 24, 10:08 am, Len Gerstel wrote: > On Jun 24, 2010, at 1:01 PM, gifutiger wrote: > > > > > > > Greetings G-Group > > > I know that this might be the incorrect place to post this question > > but I'm hopping that someone can point me to the co

CD Music

2010-06-24 Thread gifutiger
Greetings G-Group I know that this might be the incorrect place to post this question but I'm hopping that someone can point me to the correct location. I have some music that is in MP3 and MP4 format however my family room CD/DVD player is a Toshiba SD-6109C. Yeah it's at least 25 years old and

Re: SATA DVD drive on PCI/SATA controller?

2010-05-30 Thread gifutiger
Greetings Altho I wasn't trying to connect a SATA drive and a CD/DVD when I connected two drives the first time I had similar problems. Turned out the the second SATA cable was bed. Have you tried just connecting the Pioneer drive to the same cable and port that the Seagate is connected? Give it

Re: Weird Stuff

2010-05-30 Thread gifutiger
Greetings Open your log files and they will tell you why the platform is waking. I had a similar problem years ago and it was a PCI card that was having a problem. It stood out like a sore thumb in the log files. That's why the log files are created. They've been around since the beginning of UNIX

Re: Updater to 10.5.? hangs at 90% of 768 how to find parts?

2010-05-25 Thread gifutiger
What dies the console log say happened to cause the freeze. Even if you have to force a reboot the console log will still have information up to the freeze. Cheers Harry San Jose, Ca On May 25, 9:17 am, Jonas Lopez wrote: > Updater to 10.5.?

Re: Python ?? Curiouser & couriouser

2010-05-05 Thread gifutiger
You can also use the sudo lsof and then use "cmd f" and find all of the occurrence of any test that you are looking for. Cheers Harry San Jose, Ca. On May 4, 9:53 pm, Bruce Johnson wrote: > On May 4, 2010, at 7:28 PM, Dan wrote: > > > > > Try that ls

Re: PM G4 sleep problems

2010-04-15 Thread gifutiger
Greetings, I suspect that your SATA drive is plugged into a PCI card, I would make sure that you have the latest card's drivers and or check with the manufacture to find out if there is a fix for your problem. You might also want to take a look at your Console log to see id there is any problems

Re: Search in Google, from within Mac Mail 3.6

2010-03-28 Thread gifutiger
Oh I"m sorry, I did a get info for Safari. Harry San Jose, Ca On Mar 28, 4:51 pm, Al Poulin wrote: > On Mar 28, 6:29 pm, gifutiger wrote: > > > Up-date, which doesn't meet with any reason. > > I did a get info

Re: Search in Google, from within Mac Mail 3.6

2010-03-28 Thread gifutiger
Thanks to everyone that looked into this posting. Cheers Harry San Jose, Ca On Mar 28, 10:07 am, Bruce Johnson wrote: > On Mar 27, 2010, at 7:40 PM, gifutiger wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > Yes, Safari is the default bro

Re: Search in Google, from within Mac Mail 3.6

2010-03-27 Thread gifutiger
, 2:50 pm, Bill Connelly wrote: > On Mar 27, 2010, at 3:37 PM, gifutiger wrote: > > > > > > > Greeting Everyone > > > When in Mac Mail 3.6 if I highlight a word or a phrase and then using > > the right mouse button from the drop-down menu select "Search i

Search in Google, from within Mac Mail 3.6

2010-03-27 Thread gifutiger
Greeting Everyone When in Mac Mail 3.6 if I highlight a word or a phrase and then using the right mouse button from the drop-down menu select "Search in Google" nothing ever happens. Do I have a "Mail" parameter set incorrectly or not selected? If I due the same from within "Safari" the "Google

Re: Hidden Link Info.

2010-03-20 Thread gifutiger
nd only got hits for 10.3 I'll look further when I get a chance. Thanks for the heads up. Harry San Jose, Ca On Mar 20, 12:52 pm, Dan wrote: > At 2:12 PM -0500 3/20/2010, Kris Tilford wrote: > > >On Mar 20, 2010, at 1:54 PM, gifu

Hidden Link Info.

2010-03-20 Thread gifutiger
Greetings G-Group Members You know when you place your pointer over a word which is a link to expanded information, a box with the link address will open. Does anyone know how to prevent this link info pop-up or perhaps increase the OS's timer so that you have to leave the pointer over the word l

Re: Spotlight Usage

2010-03-17 Thread gifutiger
Harry San Jose, Ca On Mar 16, 8:17 am, Bruce Johnson wrote: > On Mar 15, 2010, at 8:26 PM, gifutiger wrote: > > > Greetings All > > > I'm wondering if someone can give me a clue? > > Every time that I index one of my external USB drives, the

Spotlight Usage

2010-03-15 Thread gifutiger
Greetings All I'm wondering if someone can give me a clue? Every time that I index one of my external USB drives, the next time that I load that disk onto the desktop Spotlight doesn't seam to remember any of the items which were indexed. I'm indexing a 750Gb external USB drive, when I'm done the

Re: iMac G5 isight, frequent Kernal Panics, inspite reinstalled OS Tiger

2010-03-14 Thread gifutiger
Greetings Have you taken a look at your "System Log" it should have some kind of clue! After reboot look at the system log just before the reboot occurred. Cheers Harry San Jose, Ca On Mar 13, 10:37 pm, Mullin9 wrote: >  I have an iMac G5 iS

Re: Start-up

2010-03-03 Thread gifutiger
Greetings When your platform boots into open firmware, have you reset the open firmware? You can do the reset by entering reset-nvram (enter) set-defaults (enter) reset-all (enter) the reset-all will cause the platform to reboot. Cheers Harry San Jose, Ca --

Re: Disk Utility Hang

2010-03-03 Thread gifutiger
Greetings Why don't you try memtest with just one memory module installed at a time. That way if they all pass you can then move them from one slot at a time to the next slot and run memtest again. Troubleshooting needs to be taken down to the least number of components to be tested. Cheers Harr

Re: connecting a printer

2010-02-27 Thread gifutiger
Greetings Larry You should be able to find a printer driver here that will work. http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php Cheers Harry San Jose, CA ø?ºº?ø,¸¸,ø?ºº?ø,¸¸,ø?ºº?ø,¸¸,ø?º?ø On Feb 27, 6:29 am, Lawrence David Eden wrote: > Greetings, > > I have an Intel MacBook running 10.5 at

Re: Apple jack message

2010-02-22 Thread gifutiger
Greetings It seams to me that I had this problem many years ago. Check your Console log to see if you have a PCI-USB card not responding correctly. Could be one or more ports. I fixed my problem by removing the card. That PCI-USB card worked just fine in a WINTEL machine. Cheers Harry San Jose,

Re: Sending eMail from Safari

2010-02-02 Thread gifutiger
an San Jose, Ca On Feb 2, 1:47 pm, Bruce Johnson wrote: > On Feb 2, 2010, at 2:18 PM, gifutiger wrote: > > > When trying to send an eMail link directly from Safari (the envelope > > icon) I receive the following message. > > > "An email message can't

Sending eMail from Safari

2010-02-02 Thread gifutiger
When trying to send an eMail link directly from Safari (the envelope icon) I receive the following message. "An email message can't be created to send the link because Safari can't find an email application." "You can use the Mail application included with Mac OS X to send email. To do so, you mig

Re: shut down pop-up

2010-01-22 Thread gifutiger
Greetings You might try opening a terminal window and log in as super user, then enter "kill all -9" which should terminate all process's. Harry On Jan 21, 11:25 am, User wrote: > Hi group, > How do I get rid of the "do you really want to sh

Re: PCI _ SATA Controller cards

2009-12-21 Thread gifutiger
Greetings, I have a G4 Power Mac AGP Graphics that I purchased new from Apple in 1999, 1.75Gb RAM Memory and an up-grade to a 1.25Ghz G4 processor. I'm using the ACARD 6280M which seams to run just fine. I've had it installed for about 2 years. However the 6280M doesn't accept any external connec

Re: Multiple HDs & os x

2009-11-09 Thread gifutiger
Greetings ( + )!( + ) When you select your 40Gb drive on the desktop and then select "Get Info" does it show up as a 40Gb drive? If not then what is the model number as read from the sticker on the drive. Cheers Harry San Jose, Ca On Nov 9, 12:12 am, bkprolix wrote: > I have a sawtooth 400,

Re: Can I add another Fan to my G4 Dual 500mhz tower??

2009-11-07 Thread gifutiger
Greetings Tony ( + )!( + ) If you have an open PCI slot, then do a Google search for "pci slot fan" and you will be presented with a lot of choices. One that I say was selling for $3.00. You install the PCI slot fan into an open slot and connect it to an open power connector and you'll extra air

Re: unsubscribe

2009-10-16 Thread gifutiger
Okay your unsubscribed. Cheers ø?ºº?ø,¸¸,ø?ºº?ø,¸¸,ø?ºº?ø,¸¸,ø?º?ø On Oct 15, 11:38 am, andre stark wrote: > Sincerely, > > André Stark > > President > > BlackShark Films Inc. > > 23 Chilton Park > > Milton, MA 02186 > > 617-298-1591 (o) > > 857-544-3783(c) > > (360) 242-7648(f) > > http://www.

Re: Can't fix the date and time in my G4...Why if...

2009-09-10 Thread gifutiger
Greetings ( + )!( + ) You may have checked this however would you please make sure. Open System Preference Open Date and Time Under the Date & Time Tab insure that the "Set date & time automatically" is checked And select where to get the date and time. Mine is set for "Apple Americas/U.S. (time

Re: G4 Upgrade - Radeon 7000 card - images freeze and break up

2009-08-21 Thread gifutiger
Greetings Corolla ( + )!( + ) I have the Radeon 7000 MAC (AGP) it is a native card and was not modified or flashed from another model. In the "About This Mac/More Info.../Hardware/Graphics/Display" panel it is identified as "ATI VGA: Chipset Model:ATY,RV100 Type: Display Bus: AGP

Re: Mail.app backup?

2009-08-18 Thread gifutiger
Greetings ( + )!( + ) Jeff if you don't have Mail Scripts 2.9.1 you should obtain a copy. The file is located on the Mac Home Page under "aamann" along with other useful utilities. http://homepage.mac.com/aamann/ It contains scripts for: 01. Add Addresses… 02. Archive Messages… 03. Change SMTP

Re: Help! I've lost one harddrive and now the main harddrive won't boot!

2009-03-23 Thread gifutiger
Greetings ( + )!( + ) Checking with Western Digital and Seagate, they have an application that runs on a WINTEL PCEE that will do the "low-level" format which will mark, i.e. remove the bad sectors from the drive but fortunately I haven't own a WinTel (DOS) computer for more than 30 years. Cheer

Re: Help! I've lost one harddrive and now the main harddrive won't boot!

2009-03-20 Thread gifutiger
Tech Tools Deluxe" really "TechTool Pro", or is it a different > program I haven't encoountered yet? > >  - Aaron > > >Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:34:52 -0700 (PDT) > >From: gifutiger > > >Greetings ( + )!( + ) > > >What you describe is e

Re: Help! I've lost one harddrive and now the main harddrive won't boot!

2009-03-19 Thread gifutiger
Greetings ( + )!( + ) What you describe is exatly the same that I was having. Used Tech Tools Deluxe "Surface Scan" on my 320Gb drive (took about 12 Hrs.) and the report was "Failed - Bad Blocks" so I've laid that disk to rest RIP and have ordered a new drive. If you have Tech Tools Deluxe run t

Re: Spotlight Problem in Mail

2009-03-01 Thread gifutiger
Greetings Linda ( + )!( + ) You might want to try rebuilding the Mailbox file. You can do this by opening Mac mail, select a mailbox (i.e. inbox) then select from the main drop-down menu "Mailbox" and select the last item "Rebuild" This will cause a rebuild of that selected "Mailbox" However one

Re: Dead PowerMac G4 Digital Audio Model

2009-02-26 Thread gifutiger
Greetings ( + )!( + ) The easiest way to check an A/C power source is to plug a lamp into the place where the mac is plugged. Not the same power strip but the same socket. Best regards, Harry San Jose, ø?ºº?ø,¸¸,ø?ºº?ø,¸¸,ø?ºº?ø,¸¸,ø?º?ø On Feb 26, 2:07 pm, insightinmind wrote: > Maybe a Cir

Re: Problem with Applejack instructions

2009-02-22 Thread gifutiger
Greetings ( + )!( + ) If the instruction that come with the applejack application are not understandable then I would recommend that you trash the program and not attempt to run it under any circumstance. Best regards, - Harry - On Feb 22, 9:56 am, Jonas Lopez wrote: > Problem with Applejac

Re: Restart No Video ... Cold Boot, OK

2009-02-20 Thread gifutiger
-- On Feb 20, 10:54 am, insightinmind wrote: > On Feb 20, 2009, at 1:05 PM, gifutiger wrote: > > > > > Greetings > > > I just came across this and thought that it might help in solving your > > problem. > > > ATI Displays 4.5.7 (Mac) > > >

Re: Restart No Video ... Cold Boot, OK

2009-02-20 Thread gifutiger
Greetings I just came across this and thought that it might help in solving your problem. ATI Displays 4.5.7 (Mac) http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?kw=mac&docid=490313 Best regards Harry On Feb 19, 6:31 am, insightinmind wrote: > My QS 2002 Dual 1GHz, 10.5.4

Re: Restart No Video ... Cold Boot, OK

2009-02-19 Thread gifutiger
Have you obtained the ATI drivers from http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.HTML and installed them so that they will load at boot time? I had a simular problem as you have until I installed them in my G4 Sawtooth - Harry - On Feb 19, 12:18 pm, Dan wrote: > At 9:31 AM -0500 2/19/2009, insightinmi

Re: Canon Pixma Printing Problem

2009-02-08 Thread gifutiger
Greetings ( + )!( + ) I have a Pixma MP620 and the only solution that I've found when I have problems is to go into the System Preferences... Delete the printer and re-install, Best regards, - Harry - ø?ºº?ø,¸¸,ø?ºº?ø,¸¸,ø?ºº?ø,¸¸,ø?º?ø On Feb 8, 11:29 am, Isaac Smith wrote: > On Feb 8, 2009

Wireless Router Information

2009-01-31 Thread gifutiger
Greetings ( + )!( + ) I have acquired one of the new Aluminum Macbook's 13.3 and would like to turn-on the wireless features of my router. The problem is that I haven't been able to find any plain, comprehensive instructions. Something that covers all, or almost all of the wireless router lingo.

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