... Sometimes I've found that a perfectly sound, sweet-running Mac
will go absolutely dead after sitting for a period of weeks or months,
especially if it's been stored in an unheated room or storage place,
such as a garage. Every time, the battery still had more than 3
volts ... but
The Gigabit and Digital Audio power supplies (22 pins on the main
plug) are compatible withboth of those models (though not 100%
identical), but not with the Sawtooth and G3 B/W (20 pins). I'm pretty
sure you can use a G3 B/W PS in a Sawtooth, and vice versa.
On Jun 18, 4:46 pm, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net wrote:
You are telling me... that THE Bruce Johnson doesn't have a dozen or so
Macs sitting around that he could pirate a battery from, at least long
enough to fire it up.
Bruce Johnson, you just dropped out of the top ten on my Heroes list,
On Jun 19, 10:37 am, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu
wrote:
On Jun 18, 2009, at 1:47 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote:
If the battery is alive and the machine does not start you might try
cleaning the battery contacts in the holder. Sometimes just spinning
the battery in
On Jun 19, 12:17 pm, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net wrote:
Bruce Johnson wrote:
Well, Media Computer is a bit more grandiloquent than computer
attached to the teevee for the purposes of playing music, watching
video podcasts, DVD's and surfing the web.
I'm not doing DVR or anything
On Jun 22, 2009, at 7:59 AM, trag wrote:
Have either of you two considered MythTV? It takes a bit of
fiddling, but you're both pros at that.
http://www.mythtv.org
Haven't looked into it in a while, but my old G4 just does not have
the horsepower to do a lot of that stuff. Were I to go
On Jun 22, 2009, at 7:57 AM, trag wrote:
And we have a winner!
Apparently, tiny bits of oxidation, or something can build up on
contacts. When my VCR or TV remote stops working, I take the
batteries out, swap their positions, put them back in, and I'm good
for another several months
trag wrote:
On Jun 19, 12:17 pm, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net wrote:
Bruce Johnson wrote:
Well, Media Computer is a bit more grandiloquent than computer
attached to the teevee for the purposes of playing music, watching
video podcasts, DVD's and surfing the web.
I'm not doing DVR or
On 6/22/2009 9:53 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Jun 22, 2009, at 7:59 AM, trag wrote:
Have either of you two considered MythTV? It takes a bit of
fiddling, but you're both pros at that.
http://www.mythtv.org
Haven't looked into it in a while, but my old G4 just does not have
On Jun 22, 2009, at 11:11 AM, nestamicky wrote:
I second Bruce on this one, I think a Linux box would do just fine. I
can't seem to find on their site though who it pulls video into the
machinejust through the cat5? Or, does the machine need a
capture card?
yeah hardware specs call
On Jun 19, 2009, at 8:37 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Jun 18, 2009, at 1:47 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote:
If the battery is alive and the machine does not start you might try
cleaning the battery contacts in the holder. Sometimes just spinning
the
battery in place is enough to
On Jun 19, 2009, at 10:59 AM, Jim Scott wrote:
Spun the battery around a few times, booted like a charm :-)
So much for there not being enough humidity in the Arizona air to
cause corrosion. :^)
Well it IS the beginning of our summer rainy season, humidity is up to
checks weather
On Jun 19, 2009, at 11:23 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
Well it IS the beginning of our summer rainy season, humidity is up to
checks weather station on campus 36% ... Wooh!
That said, this could be a long-term side effect of this particular
computer's history which includes episodes of 100%
On Jun 18, 2:00 pm, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu
wrote:
On Jun 18, 2009, at 1:48 PM, Clark Martin wrote:
I have a client who had a, then, not so old PM8500 stored in a San
Francisco garage for 6 months. All the bare metal panels were heavily
oxidized. And while the
On Jun 18, 2009, at 2:14 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
Will dead/lack of a PRAM battery keep a Gigabit Ethernet G4 system
from turning on?
I took the G4 offline in January, and set it down for 6 months. This
morning I went to clean it up and get it going, and plugged it all in
andnot a
On Jun 18, 2009, at 11:42 AM, Len Gerstel wrote:
Yes, on a G4 a completely dead pram can cause a no start up at all. I
had one in my DA die and when it was very low, CUDA'ing could get it
to start. But when it went below a certain point (I did not test with
a multimeter) it was dead, Jim.
On Jun 18, 2009, at 11:14 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
Will dead/lack of a PRAM battery keep a Gigabit Ethernet G4 system
from turning on?
Yep, however ...
I took the G4 offline in January, and set it down for 6 months. This
morning I went to clean it up and get it going, and plugged it all
On Jun 18, 2009, at 12:53 PM, Jim Scott wrote:
... Sometimes I've found that a perfectly sound, sweet-running Mac
will go absolutely dead after sitting for a period of weeks or months,
especially if it's been stored in an unheated room or storage place,
such as a garage.
Nah, this was on
Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Jun 18, 2009, at 11:42 AM, Len Gerstel wrote:
Yes, on a G4 a completely dead pram can cause a no start up at all. I
had one in my DA die and when it was very low, CUDA'ing could get it
to start. But when it went below a certain point (I did not test with
a
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu
wrote:
Will dead/lack of a PRAM battery keep a Gigabit Ethernet G4 system
from turning on?
Sometimes one bad electrical contact will stop a machine. Surprisingly it
does not take much corrosion or crud at all .
Jim Scott wrote:
On Jun 18, 2009, at 11:14 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
Will dead/lack of a PRAM battery keep a Gigabit Ethernet G4 system
from turning on?
Yep, however ...
I took the G4 offline in January, and set it down for 6 months. This
morning I went to clean it up and get it
On Jun 18, 2009, at 1:46 PM, Clark Martin wrote:
You are telling me... that THE Bruce Johnson doesn't have a dozen or
so
Macs sitting around that he could pirate a battery from, at least long
enough to fire it up.
Nope. She Who Must Be Obeyed starts getting irritated when the supply
of
On Jun 18, 2009, at 1:48 PM, Clark Martin wrote:
I have a client who had a, then, not so old PM8500 stored in a San
Francisco garage for 6 months. All the bare metal panels were heavily
oxidized. And while the computer did fire up I don't think it
worked,
something had died from the
On Jun 18, 2009, at 1:48 PM, Clark Martin wrote:
I have a client who had a, then, not so old PM8500 stored in a San
Francisco garage for 6 months. All the bare metal panels were heavily
oxidized. And while the computer did fire up I don't think it
worked,
something had died from the
Bruce Johnson wrote:
Will dead/lack of a PRAM battery keep a Gigabit Ethernet G4 system
from turning on?
A dead PRAM battery stopped my G4/400 booting, and the same thing
happened to a G4/867 at work.
IT (PC boys) diagnosed a dead mobo.
He He
Bruce...
On Jun 18, 2009, at 11:14 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
Will dead/lack of a PRAM battery keep a Gigabit Ethernet G4 system
from turning on?
I took the G4 offline in January, and set it down for 6 months. This
morning I went to clean it up and get it going, and plugged it all in
Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Jun 18, 2009, at 1:48 PM, Clark Martin wrote:
I have a client who had a, then, not so old PM8500 stored in a San
Francisco garage for 6 months. All the bare metal panels were heavily
oxidized. And while the computer did fire up I don't think it
worked,
Bruce Johnson wrote:
Now, I have the choice of running off to Radio Shack ( 1/2 mile
away), getting the battery and thus missing my delivery,
(based on the Quantum Delivery Services modification of the Heisenberg
principle: Any departure of the receiver from the delivery point will
Bruce Johnson wrote:
GigE's take the same PS as a Sawtooth, I'm pretty sure, right?
I don't think so. I believe that there's at least one pin out that's
different. It's been a few years since I had the dual 500...
JT
--~--~-~--~~~---~--~~
You received
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Ted Treented.tr...@btinternet.com wrote:
A dead PRAM battery stopped my G4/400 booting, and the same thing
happened to a G4/867 at work.
IT (PC boys) diagnosed a dead mobo.
Well, in their defense, they *were* right weren't they? The
motherboard was
On Jun 18, 2009, at 8:27 PM, James E. Therrault wrote:
Bruce Johnson wrote:
GigE's take the same PS as a Sawtooth, I'm pretty sure, right?
I don't think so. I believe that there's at least one pin out that's
different. It's been a few years since I had the dual 500...
Might find an
--- On Thu, 6/18/09, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio fluxstrin...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Wallace Adrian D'Alessio fluxstrin...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Arrrggh! G4 dies from just sitting there?
To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com
Date: Thursday, June 18, 2009, 1:47 PM
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 2:14 PM
insightinmind wrote:
On Jun 18, 2009, at 8:27 PM, James E. Therrault wrote:
Bruce Johnson wrote:
GigE's take the same PS as a Sawtooth, I'm pretty sure, right?
I don't think so. I believe that there's at least one pin out that's
different. It's been a few years since I had the dual
On Jun 18, 2009, at 11:54 PM, James E. Therrault wrote:
insightinmind wrote:
On Jun 18, 2009, at 8:27 PM, James E. Therrault wrote:
Bruce Johnson wrote:
GigE's take the same PS as a Sawtooth, I'm pretty sure, right?
I don't think so. I believe that there's at least one pin out that's
On Jun 18, 2009, at 1:23 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
and waiting to get the stupid new media computer set up.
Well THE Bruce care to tell us how he plans to setup a media G4. Some
of us will ask; what would Bruce do? I have a Sawtooth I could use to
follow...
On 6/18/09 2:14 PM, Bruce Johnson of john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu sent
Will dead/lack of a PRAM battery keep a Gigabit Ethernet G4 system
from turning on?
I took the G4 offline in January, and set it down for 6 months. This
morning I went to clean it up and get it going, and plugged it
Well, I'm sitting out here in the desert near Albuquerque, in a very
dry place, and I had a 733 DA that wasn't turned on for a couple of
months, and now no matter how I try, it refuses to boot. I've done
everything mentioned by others: battery, PRAM, cuda, everything, and
it's dead as a doornail.
I have a blue and white g3/450 and it has a bad pram battery but i
just use it as a music server in the shop. Everytime it gets unplugged
it won't power up. The only way I can get it to turn on is by pressing
pwr button on the mobo. I just kind of blindly reach into the case and
press all the
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