installing a printer

2010-09-08 Thread Lawrence David Eden
The Mac in question is a G5 iMac running Tiger 10.4.11 When I try to install a new printer, the driver won't show up on the list, so installation stalls. This has happened when I try to install the same printer that works fine on my G3 iMac running the same OS. Any ideas to remedy the

Re: HP 870Cse on G4 MDD

2010-09-08 Thread John C
I thought you had bought a Parallel-to-USB adapter for this 870CSE?   Either way is a kludge, but you can enable USB Printer Sharing using   the USB adapter method. I did buy a HP cable but no joy there either, The HP printers are a real Bi^^h. I was hoping for a driver from anyone other

Re: installing a printer

2010-09-08 Thread Dan
At 5:54 AM -0400 9/8/2010, Lawrence David Eden wrote: G5 iMac running Tiger 10.4.11 When I try to install a new printer, the driver won't show up on the list, so installation stalls. But you don't want to tell us what printer it is? Is the driver installed? Is it physically on your system

Re: HP 870Cse on G4 MDD

2010-09-08 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 8, 2010, at 11:19 AM, John C wrote: I was hoping for a driver from anyone other than HP The HPIJS drivers for OS X support the 870cse. I'd install these drivers and use the Parallel-to-USB adapter cable.

Re: Won't boot after G4 Power Mac M5183 up grades???

2010-09-08 Thread Richard Gerome
Ok I got everything up and running now but I still can not get the video card to work, the computer won't even boot up... The video card I got for it is a: PNY Tech Inc GeForce FX5200 DDR 128mb I tried running the disc that came with it and there isn't any download for the Apple only PC's,

Re: Won't boot after G4 Power Mac M5183 up grades???

2010-09-08 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 8, 2010, at 11:56 AM, Richard Gerome wrote: The video card I got for it is a: PNY Tech Inc GeForce FX5200 DDR 128mb I tried running the disc that came with it and there isn't any download for the Apple only PC's, how do I get this to work??? It has to be flashed for the Mac.

Re: Won't boot after G4 Power Mac M5183 up grades???

2010-09-08 Thread Kris Tilford
On Sep 8, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Richard Gerome wrote: Ok I got everything up and running now but I still can not get the video card to work, the computer won't even boot up... The video card I got for it is a: PNY Tech Inc GeForce FX5200 DDR 128mb I tried running the disc that came with it and

Re: Won't boot after G4 Power Mac M5183 up grades???

2010-09-08 Thread Ashgrove
Richard, You got a PC video card, which won't work at all in a Mac. It's that simple. (Maybe it could work, but it would need to be flashed beforehand using a PC, so that's out for now.) You need to put back the old video card for the computer to work. Your G4 is a Digital Audio, if I'm not

Re: Won't boot after G4 Power Mac M5183 up grades???

2010-09-08 Thread Ashgrove
On Sep 8, 3:11 pm, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: You're going to need to enable LBA48 support so that the full 250GB is   recognized. Kris, Kudos for the great detailed info. I didn't know anything about the firmware fix or Overdrive. Thanks! Felix -- You received this message

Re: installing a printer

2010-09-08 Thread onelucent
This may not be your issue. But once the drivers are installed, the printer won't appear in Printer Setup Utility until it is connected and on and selected for the first time. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop

Re: installing a printer

2010-09-08 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Sep 8, 2010, at 4:29 PM, onelucent wrote: This may not be your issue. But once the drivers are installed, the printer won't appear in Printer Setup Utility until it is connected and on and selected for the first time. And Printer Utility itself has been restarted...printers added while

Re: installing a printer

2010-09-08 Thread Jonas Lopez
You did not tell us what printer brand = I had endless issues with hp and finally Ken sent me a fix and it worked - I hope he will respond to your issue - he is on the list. JML --- On Wed, 9/8/10, Lawrence David Eden lde...@comcast.net wrote: From: Lawrence David Eden lde...@comcast.net

Re: Won't boot after G4 Power Mac M5183 up grades???

2010-09-08 Thread Matt Rhinesmith
On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 20:24 -0400, Richard Gerome wrote: Thanks Bruce, it was the video card swapped in the old one and will download the OS to the new HD and then download the disc that came with the video card then put the new one back in and hope it will boot up then... Very cool!!!