Thanks, everyone, for your advice! I successfully swapped out the video cards this afternoon; it only took 10 minutes. Some applications seem to take a little more time to open or close, but everything seems to be working fine as of now.
I appreciate the experience of this group.... many thanks! Mira On Saturday, October 24, 2015, Mira Kehoe <mirake...@gmail.com> wrote: > By "home page", I mean my "desktop"... I'm the only user on this > computer, so I don't log in. > > The Apple person said the the graphics card is the last thing to "boot > up" ... I'm not sure that's the term he used, but he said that's why > the blue screen is taking so long. > > It wouldn't hurt to change out the cards and see how it behaves. > > I think that using the utility you mentioned could be a good idea, but > I could possibly get myself in a situation I can't interpret. > > The Apple Genius Bar will let you bring in any Apple device, they just > won't "repair" anything that's too old. They have been very helpful > over the years. > > Thanks for your thoughts, > > Mira > > On 10/24/15, NODEraser <nodera...@gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 9:54 PM, mkehoe <mirake...@gmail.com > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > >> The Apple genius bar person was pretty sure that the video card on the > >> 1.25 > >> dual G4 is causing the symptoms I've been having: long time on the solid > >> blue screen before my home page appears, etc. > > > > They still provide support at the Genius Bar for PowerPC products? > > That's pretty surprising. When you say "home page", I assume you're > > talking about the login screen when booting? I don't see how your > > graphics card could affect that unless there's something going on with > > hardware identification/initialization that is causing a delay. You > > could use a utility like XPostFacto to enter verbose mode on startup > > and look at any messages that stall for a while. > > > > While there is a difference between those two cards (the 9000 is a > > level or two higher than the MX 4 in terms of performance, depending > > on the specific model of card) there shouldn't be any noticeable > > difference in OS X itself, unless you're doing some gaming or running > > a really high resolution. > > > > -- > > [Greg Bennett] > > -Independent Carpenter, Electrician & Lighting Designer > > -Purveyor of Classic Apple & Macintosh Gear > > http://www.hsiprodsvcs.com/ > > http://www.macshack.us/ > > > > -- > > -- > > 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 http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our > > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > > To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > <javascript:;> > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list > > > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > > Google Groups "G-Group" group. > > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/g3-5-list/cVU18wSNV7c/unsubscribe. > > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > > g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com <javascript:;>. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- -- 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 http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
