Re: iMac (Flat Panel) not recognizing any drives

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Check to see if it has a CK2032(Silver coin battery) Battery on the 
Motherboard. Replace with a NEW-FRESH battery. Reset pram (battery may be near 
it) then see if it will start from CD system disk.

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  On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 21:42, Clark Martin wrote:   It could 
be the IDE controller is wonky.  I had that happen in an iBook.  Do you have a 
Firewire or USB drive you can boot from.

Clark MartinA designated driver on the information Super Highway

On Apr 9, 2018, at 4:38 AM, 'Juergen Grieb' via iMac Group 
 wrote:
I have an iMac (Flat Panel) from 2002 (aka The Lamp). Bought it some years ago 
and replaced the hard disk with an SSD. It was working fine the last time I 
used it. But I haven't been using it from quite some time. Last boot up was 2-3 
years ago.
When I try to boot it now, it just won't. I get a gray screen.
Pressing option gets me to the boot manager. There are no drives shown there. 
Inserting a macOS installer disc changes nothing.
Reset PRAM, no luck. Can boot into open firmware. But booting from there 
results also in the gray screen.
Then I thought it might be the drives or their connection. I removed them from 
the iMac and connected then (with the iMac cable) to another computer and they 
work fine there.
Anyone any idea why the iMac stopped recognizing any drive? Are there parts in 
the the iMac that can go bad (no battery leakage) over the years and need 
replacing?



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Re: Now this is Apple like the good old days!

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  On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 13:36, Bruce Johnson 
wrote:   Those lazy, crazy IIFX days of old, when Macs were almost literally 
worth their weight in gold :-P

You have to toss the VESA adapter into your shopping cart to do it, but you can 
once again BTO a single Mac that comes in at more than $10,000 

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Re: USB Digital Video Converter

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Russell, checked withNational Camera they may have someone in your area that 
can helped with the fix of your camera and also the TIMING of your tape.Douglas 
in Minnesota

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  On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 9:36, Russell Idaho - USA 
wrote:   So I FINALLY got the digital video converter working!
Yes, it does work. I tried a variety of adapters to get audio but nothing 
worked, I received my 3.5mm Sony compatible composite cable and found VLC was 
not working right, I'd get video but no audio. So I downloaded some trial video 
software (Debut Video Capture Free) from the App Store and it works! The only 
way I knew the sound worked was the vu meter at the bottom of the window. This 
makes me think that VLC was receiving audio also, just not 'playing through' to 
the speakers or headphones. But VLC kept crashing no matter what I tried so I 
recorded with this new software and it seems OK although it has a watermark 
without paying the $49.95.
I also tried Audacity to get an uncompressed audio capture and it works too.
The s-video out does not work but I really don't know if that is the camera, 
the cable or the capture device.
One of my old tapes is me working around the ranch, the train and the animals 
but it looks like when I recorded it the tracking was off on the camera and it 
is unwatchable. I figure I'm going to have to get that old camera working to 
play it back, anyone know anything about fixing old Sony 8mm video cameras?

Russell Courtenay
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On Apr 16, 2017, at 4:34 PM, Russell Courtenay  wrote:


So I finally got a chance to test this thing and the USB extension cable 
supplied is no good, it shows up when plugged directly into the USB port, not 
through the cable. Shows up on both the PC and the iMac but I can’t get any 
video feed from my Sony Hi8 8mm video camera. 
I think it may be the output on the camera but I only have an s-video cable 
(the later Sonys use a proprietary 4 conductor 3.5mm composite video cable that 
I don’t have and will take two weeks to get from eBay). I tired a composite 
cable with an s-video adapter and that didn’t work either.
I have the old Sony most of these tapes were originally recorded on and it has 
composite outputs but it was dropped (and I then found out it had been dropped 
and glued back together BEFORE I bought it as when I opened it up I found lots 
of broken glue joints). I haven’t tried it in a while but as I recall it also 
had a tracking problem. 
I really hate video tapes and their tracking problems, seems like every VCR I 
have had over the years has had the tracking and a belt or two go out and you 
have to remove a LOT of screws to fix either…
I have a third Sony video camera but it doesn’t work at all. This is getting 
pretty complicated…
I did find more video tapes I didn’t know I had including one of me playing my 
guitar the our local Cherry Festival in 1999! I guess I could just watch it on 
the 1.5” LCD on the camera with sound on only one side of the headphones….
Russell Courtenay
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On Mar 28, 2017, at 10:50 AM, Bruce Johnson  
wrote:


On Mar 27, 2017, at 7:59 PM, Russell Courtenay  wrote:
I have been wanting one of these for years to play around with but hesitated to 
pay $70 for the El Gato device so I plunked down a whole $7 for a generic 
version off of eBay.

The auction said 'Mac' in the title but I didn't believe that as it showed a 3" 
cd, which I KNOW won't work on any Mac, but I figured I'd try it anyway, most 
of the software is built into modern operating systems I suppose...

So I couldn't resist and popped it open to reveal some very generic looking 
chips…

\Plug it into your Mac, then open System Information, go to the USB section and 
see if it says the product and vendor id is:
Kensington Slimblade Trackball:
  Product ID: 0x2041  Vendor ID: 0x047d  (Kensington)  Version: 1.07  Speed: Up 
to 1.5 Mb/sec  Manufacturer: Kensington  Location ID: 0xfa133000 / 12  Current 
Available (mA): 500  Current Required (mA): 100  Extra Operating Current (mA):0

Googling that will often lead you to the OEM and suitable downloadable drivers. 
WIthout the driver it won’t properly show all the details or work, but it’s 
often enough info to hunt down the drivers, or at least the OEM. if mac drivers 
exist…
But, as Michael Shaw says any non-slot loading optical drive will also work 
with those 3” cd’s.



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Re: Working G3 iMac?

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I'm two hours south of Spokane, WA.  Anyone know of a functioning 500Mhz or 
higher G3 iMac, anywhere?  (Every time the CRT goes out in mine I pull the guts 
and put it in another.  I've done this three times since 1999.)
Finally, for the first time, I'm having difficulty locating a donor.  All I 
really do is download music and play iTunes with it but these machines are 
perfect for that, humming along unobtrusively...

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Re: To Upgrade or Not to Upgrade

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The 'flood' was nature, (14 inch rain) but my two-1000 gal. Subpump could not 
keep up. Was 4 feet deep out side of my home at 11:30 pm cst when fireman 
carryed me out, had one to 2 feet thru 'ground' floor. 50 mile circle radius 
flood.

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  On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 17:01, Julia Brinckloe wrote:   
Wow, big thanks for the extensive response. And appreciate reminder of the 
security issue--which Mac users didn't have prior to the whole intel 
partnership. At least it seemed Mac code was better written. 
FYI my main system is the Mac mini and a Dell PC sharing a monitor, mouse and 
tablet on a switch. They share peripherals via a home network. I like your 
solution--to clone Mavericks on an external drive and upgrade the main drive. 
I'd partition my main drive but at 500GB it's not so big these days. (My first 
computer was an IBM Headstart PC with no hard drive at all--everything stored 
on floppies. And my first Mac had a 20 MB HD and 8 or 16 MB RAM. Technology 
flies..)
I'm wondering if I have to install Yosemite before upgrading to El Capitan. But 
I'm sure Apple has an FAQ on that. 
I confess I'm most reluctant to part with Mavericks because I live ten minutes 
away from the real thing, and seeing it on my desktop, I'm home.
Thanks again. You know your stuff.<='o }



On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Google  wrote:


> On Sep 26, 2016, at 9:51 AM, Julia Brinckloe  wrote:
>
> I have a query regarding Mac system upgrades.
>
> I am currently running Mavericks (OSX 10.9.5) on my Mac Mini, 2.3 GHz Intel 
> Core i5, 16 GB RAM.
>
> I've been reluctant to upgrade to Yosemite or El Capitan because this works 
> well for me (and my peripherals). I know upgrades use more memory. Not sure 
> about support for older peripherals.
>
> Is there any real advantage to upgrading--enough to override "if it ain't 
> broke, don't fix it"..?
>
> Thanks in advance for opinion on this. jb

The amount of installed RAM in your Mac Mini is more than enough to handle even 
macOS 10.12 Sierra, so that’s not a problem. And the size of the basic macOS 
software has been shrinking, so that’s not a concern either. What is a concern, 
though, is the support Apple provides with security updates. Beginning with OS 
X 10.7 Lion, Apple has settled into a regular 3-year cycle. Mavericks was 
introduced on October 22, 2013 and thus is nearing the end of the cycle during 
which Apple actively provides security and other updates, such as to Safari.

Since macOS updates to new versions have been free since Mavericks, it makes 
sense to take advantage of them, if only to keep the operating system up to 
date with today’s online environment, where security is an ever-growing issue. 
For me, that’s reason enough to upgrade to the newest version of macOS/OS X 
that my Macs will run. Yes, there are niggling concerns about the need to 
update third-party software, and I just went through about a half dozen updates 
of things such as Carbon Copy Cloner, DiskWarrior and SpamSieve to make them 
work with Sierra, but a bunch of other software providers including Apple had 
already automatically provided updates to their software.

As for peripherals, yes, that’s a concern. Printer manufacturers, to pick an 
apt example, are notorious for pushing out new hardware and ignoring operating 
system-compatible driver updates for older hardware. Often, trying to make an 
older printer work with the latest version of an operating system is impossible 
for that reason. But there’s a workaround for all that. What I do — every year 
since Apple’s now on an annual OS update cycle — is to keep a cloned copy of 
the most recent 2 or 3 versions of OS X on an external drive. Right now, for 
example, I’ve got one 4 TB drive loaded with a clone of Sierra which is backed 
up daily by Carbon Copy Cloner. Then I’ve got a clone of El Capitan and 
Yosemite on that same drive. The Sierra clone space was used for the Mavericks 
backup clone. When macOS 10.13 comes out next fall, the Yosemite clone will 
disappear. This setup allows me to reboot into an older OS X version should the 
need arise, whether it’s because of hardware or software. I rarely have to use 
these older clones, but it’s nice to know they’re there if I need them. The 
Yosemite clone helped me get past the drastic changes to Disk Utility that El 
Capitan introduced.

On the other hand, an easier solution for you may be to partition the internal 
drive so that you’ve got a Mavericks partition and a current-macOS partition. 
Another solution would be to use software like Parallels which permits users to 
run multiple versions of Mac operating systems side by side without rebooting. 
Or you can stick with what you’ve got until it no longer can do the job and 
then get all-new everything, which is a strategy a lot of people I know use. 
Since I think you’re running a mid-2011 Mac Mini, you’ve probably got a few 
more years 

Re: HP printer driver update problem

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Robert let me know if you ever get it working. i have same printer setting 
here(neat little guy) was going to put it on odroid machine (MB same as RPI but 
4× power)douglas...@yahoo.com

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  On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 8:51, Bob Whiton wrote:   
On Feb 25, 2016, at 8:38 PM, W.Adrian D'Alessio  wrote:

> I have often observed such problems. It seems software and " the helpers "  
> are geared to break your system no matter what. 
> Sometimes it is our fault, we overlooked something simple or we did not 
> understand an instruction page which was written in China before being 
> translated into 6 other languages before it was translated into English from 
> a Serbian version.
> 
> It is the industry's way of saying you are not spending enough money fast 
> enough.
> 

Actually, HP was surprisingly helpful with this, and I even got to talk to a 
service rep on the phone.  It turns out that HP hasn’t issued a driver update 
for this printer since 2006.  This update was all Apple.

And then there was iOS 9, but that’s another rant.

Bob

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