Re: Dying GPUs?

2010-05-09 Thread pdimage
On 9/5/10 01:04, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net wrote: Is it DOS or the DOS command shell under Windows that the card patching programs need. I always figured they were DOS programs because those writing them were too lazy to create a GUI. It's plain old DOS usually - booted from a floppy

Re: can i use this video card?

2010-05-09 Thread pdimage
On 8/5/10 20:48, Mark Sokolovsky coolmar...@gmail.com wrote: i have recently bought an ATI Radeon 9600 with 256MB video RAM. I know I have to do some tweaking to put it in a PM G4 graphite Sawtooth It is a PC card. I have Leopard on the sawtooth right now, but the video card has only 64MB

RE: can i use this video card?

2010-05-09 Thread Stewie de Young
The PC 9600 models are mostly unusable in a mac - those that will convert must have BGA ram (square) rather than the slower TSOP ram (oblong). See. http://themacelite.wikidot.com/9600bga even though it may be convertible to mac it may suffer from reduced

Question

2010-05-09 Thread Stephen Conrad
I found myself something called an iTrip Can I access it somehow with my G4 Quicksilver? If so, how do I do this? Also, what is this thing? -- Steve Conrad Henrietta, MO 64036 The time has come for mankind to grow up and leave its cradle behind; to go forth and claim our place in outer space.

Which is better?

2010-05-09 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Ok guys and gals. I have just one question. I have 2 video cards that i plan on putting on my PM G4 sawtooth. One is an Nvidia GeForce 6200 with 256MB RAM, the other is an ATI Radeon 9550 with 256MB of RAM. Both are flashed PC cards and work well on my system. Which one is better to use? (hint: i

Re: G5 Red Light on startup

2010-05-09 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
I have had some expirience with PM G5 towers, and they do have some noisy fans, not to mention the annoying red LED light. Just to warn you, do be careful that your PM G5 IS NOT liquid cooled, because there were sooo many reports piling up saying that their processor cooling unit just exploded or

Re: Which is better?

2010-05-09 Thread Kris Tilford
On May 9, 2010, at 12:12 AM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: Ok guys and gals. I have just one question. I have 2 video cards that i plan on putting on my PM G4 sawtooth. One is an Nvidia GeForce 6200 with 256MB RAM, the other is an ATI Radeon 9550 with 256MB of RAM. Both are flashed PC cards and

G5 Wakes up Screaming

2010-05-09 Thread M Christol
A couple times now my G5 has woken from sleep the fans have gone into high gear. I have an Airport network. This time no other computers were on. I got this in my Logs/DirectoryService/DirectoryService.server.log : 2010-05-09 08:43:48 EDT - T[0xA0586820] - Sleep Notification occurred.

Re: Which is better?

2010-05-09 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
okay but the thing is... where can i download a benchmark program? --  Sent from my Power mac G4 Sawtooth. -- 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: Which is better?

2010-05-09 Thread Len Gerstel
On May 9, 2010, at 9:21 AM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: okay but the thing is... where can i download a benchmark program? -- http://lmgtfy.com/?q=geekbench http://lmgtfy.com/?q=cinebench http://lmgtfy.com/?q=xbench I normally use xBench for benchmarking Len -- You received this message

Re: Which is better?

2010-05-09 Thread dc
On May 9, 1:12 am, Mark Sokolovsky coolmar...@gmail.com wrote: I have 2 video cards that i plan on putting on my PM G4 sawtooth. One is an Nvidia GeForce 6200 with 256MB RAM, the other is an ATI Radeon 9550 with 256MB of RAM. Both are flashed PC cards and work well on my system. Which one is

Re: Beige G3 not booting from CD!

2010-05-09 Thread Manuel Marques
But the low-profile SIMMs are for the VRAM, correct? The RAM modules are standard PC-66 low-density ones, right? Yesterday I was busy tinkering with the PM... installed some old apps which I found in Macintosh Garden, and then started copying some old floppies I have here (unfortunately, some of

Re: G5 Wakes up Screaming

2010-05-09 Thread Bruce Johnson
On May 9, 2010, at 6:23 AM, M Christol wrote: A couple times now my G5 has woken from sleep the fans have gone into high gear. I have an Airport network. This time no other computers were on. I got this in my Logs/DirectoryService/ DirectoryService.server.log : 2010-05-09 08:43:48 EDT -

Re: G5 Red Light on startup

2010-05-09 Thread William Lueders
The liquid cooler death is pretty well known by now. Mine are all dual 2gig units so they never had this device ticking away inside in the first place. Still the warning is appreciated. You mentioned the annoying red light in your post. Are you indicating that this is normal? This is on a

Re: Dying GPUs?

2010-05-09 Thread Michael G.M.
Thanks for all the replies - very useful info if I ever intend to try this. Now, AMD or Intel Winbox? ;-) Anyway, it was the Apple DVD player that was mostly having issues. The movies would be stopping and way out of sync as Mac OS 9's DVD player could be a lot of the time. iTunes rentals do

Re: Beige G3 not booting from CD!

2010-05-09 Thread Len Gerstel
On May 9, 2010, at 11:49 AM, Manuel Marques wrote: But the low-profile SIMMs are for the VRAM, correct? The RAM modules are standard PC-66 low-density ones, right? vram modules are different than simms. vrams are smaller and look like laptop memory. The ram modules are standard pc-66 low

Re: G5 Red Light on startup

2010-05-09 Thread roger deghetto
i have a late 05 g5 tower and i have the red light also i think this is normal and nothing to worry about On May 8, 10:29 am, William Lueders wlued...@mac.com wrote: Group, I have acquired a Power Mac G5, Model # A1117 produced around January 2006.   Has dual 2gig PPC's, 4 gig ram.  Works

RE: Which is better?

2010-05-09 Thread Stewie de Young
On May 9, 1:12 am, Mark Sokolovsky coolmar...@gmail.com wrote: I have 2 video cards that i plan on putting on my PM G4 sawtooth. One is an Nvidia GeForce 6200 with 256MB RAM, the other is an ATI Radeon 9550 with 256MB of RAM. Both are flashed PC cards and work well on my system.

Re: Beige G3 not booting from CD!

2010-05-09 Thread Brad McCartney
The problem may lie in the CD Rom drive itself. I've had this experience in the past with my G3's On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Len Gerstel lgers...@gmail.com wrote: On May 9, 2010, at 11:49 AM, Manuel Marques wrote: But the low-profile SIMMs are for the VRAM, correct? The RAM modules

But Mini, I don't HAVE a Bluetooth Mouse!

2010-05-09 Thread ===( )8
Hiya Listers, Can anyone tell me why my G4 1.5 GHz Mini (OS X Tiger 10.4.2, deliberately!) thinks I have a Bluetooth Mouse and insists I produce it? I had to restart my Mini because it locked up when I plugged my USB external HD into it (something I've done successfully before), but along

Re: But Mini, I don't HAVE a Bluetooth Mouse!

2010-05-09 Thread Charles Lenington
===( )8 wrote: Hiya Listers, Can anyone tell me why my G4 1.5 GHz Mini (OS X Tiger 10.4.2, deliberately!) thinks I have a Bluetooth Mouse and insists I produce it? I had to restart my Mini because it locked up when I plugged my USB external HDT Try going into the bluetooth prefs and turn

Re: But Mini, I don't HAVE a Bluetooth Mouse!

2010-05-09 Thread ===( )8
Charles Lenington writes, Try going into the bluetooth prefs and turn off blue tooth. No can do. :-( I can't do ANYTHING with the Mini the way it is now. The cursor arrow is STUCK in the upper left side of the screen while the little gear in the dialog box screaming for a Bluetooth mouse

Re: WebKit Nightly

2010-05-09 Thread paterfamilas
Previously, at 12:08 am -0400 5/7/10, Dan wrote: WebKit Nightly warns about plug-ins by default - just in case the plug-in interfaces get changed. It's a general warning to make you aware of the fact that there could be problems, so you need to keep up with things. System-wide plug-in are

Re: place to sell my old G4

2010-05-09 Thread Jonas Ulrich
I agree with Richard. I only sell things, that are either cheap to ship, (laptops and the like, something that can fit in a flat rate box), and things that are worth some serious money. The only problem with that is the final value fees. -Jonas On 5/7/10, Dennis Myhand dmyh...@suddenlink.net

Re: But Mini, I don't HAVE a Bluetooth Mouse!

2010-05-09 Thread Kris Tilford
On May 9, 2010, at 10:56 PM, ===( )8 wrote: Charles Lenington writes, Try going into the bluetooth prefs and turn off blue tooth. No can do. :-( I can't do ANYTHING with the Mini the way it is now. The cursor arrow is STUCK in the upper left side of the screen while the little gear in the