Re: Apple Security Update (2005-003): PB crash!
Well, for one thing, disk problems are never good. So, you are saying that while copying the installers to another machine, it crashed? What crashed exactly? The Finder? When talking about installers, I'm assuming you mean packages (.pkg)? yes, there was a kernel panic while copying the .pkg files to another machine. Three-finger reboot. This was the very first symptom. Later on, after a forced re-boot following a freeze during repair permission I had: Disk Utility has lost connection with the disk management tool and cannot continue. Please quit and relaunch disk utility If trying to quit it would say: disk utility has still some operation in course. Quitting in the middle of some operation can leave a disk non operational. Catch 22. I had to quit it in order to continue. Disk utility log: Filesystem object has an invalid type, cannot dearchive. What I did/attempted next on the OS X partition: - archive and install of OS 10.3.5 from DVD: failed - clear and install of OS 10.3.5 from DVD: ok - software update to 10.3.8 from Apple server: ok - iLife 05 from DVD: installer quits after few steps (tried a few times) - iPhoto from iLife 05 DVD: same as above - GarageBand from iLife 05 DVD: goes through install. At the end this message: There were errors installing the software - repair disk permissions: 2 instances repaired - install iLife 05 from DVD. No errors (but iTunes, etc NOT updated to latest versions!) - install iTunes only: success, updates iTunes to latest version - install iMovie only: installer quits - run repair permissions: same error as above: Disk utility has lost connection... so success/failures occur almost randomly. I start from scratch again: - Boot from OS 10.3.5 DVD, wipe the OS X partition with disk utility - Install OS: stalls during writing files base system 2. Force restart from OS9 partition - Boot from OS 10.3 CD, install OS succesfull from CD1+2. - It reports correctly 768 MB of RAM Given the symptoms reported above, what could be my next best bet move before I head directionless at guessing fixes, maybe creating more damage? I thought first that the file system was corrupted, but in that case a clean install should have cured it? And I suppose my next dumb question is: this is a Titanium G4. Is installing OS 10.3.5 from the DVD that came with my collegue Aluminum G4 a bad thing (as opposed to installing from the original CD)? cheers and thanks for any help, gianfranco -- Sparen beginnt mit GMX DSL: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Apple Security Update (2005-003): PB crash!
On 08/04/05 12:40, Francesco sciacca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip!] Given the symptoms reported above, what could be my next best bet move before I head directionless at guessing fixes, maybe creating more damage? I thought first that the file system was corrupted, but in that case a clean install should have cured it? And I suppose my next dumb question is: this is a Titanium G4. Is installing OS 10.3.5 from the DVD that came with my collegue Aluminum G4 a bad thing (as opposed to installing from the original CD)? [snip!] I think that your disk is having some problems. Have you tried, after booting from a system install disk to launch Disk Utility and format the drive, making sure that you turn on the option to write zeros? Before replacing the disk, you might want to try a disk repair utility like Disk Warrior, but that will add to the cost of getting another drive. I would guess that the drive has some problems, but this is mostly speculation. It is hard from the symptoms you describe to tell what is wrong... It is also possible that the iLife installation CD is corrupted or has been damaged. Did you had any 3rd party memory in that PowerBook? Is this the original hard disk? What Titanium model is this? When rebooting from the system install disk, did you make sure that no peripheral were connected? Specially USB peripherals, like mouse and/or keyboard? I don't think it is a problem installing from a DVD made for another PowerBook but you might want to try a generic OS X install disk, if you can, just to be sure. -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin Developer, Multifamily, ESO, Fannie Mae mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Washington, DC, USA Usual disclaimers apply *** -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Recording records/tapes (thanks)
Hector I.Macedo said: I think that you are in a privileged minority, I, like many others who love music do not have either the ear nor the training to distinguish slight variations in tone or sound. This is NOT slight variations. This the difference of viewing music as something which purpose is to be fully enjoyed as opposed to something that makes some type of sound. It's about love really. An iMic *is* inferior to the majority of soundcards on the market since many years. It wasn't made for recording vinyl, period. And, monetary bits aside, its only music, not life or death. No, it's death for your music, becuse dead is how it will sound, no matter what you pretend. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Recording records/tapes (thanks)
Seth Austen said: Although 24/96 is available, many pro engineers are still recording projects at 44.1 or 48. You can really mess up the sonic qualities of the audio from poorly done conversions from 96 to 44.1 rendering it worse than just recording at a lower level to begin with. Good point. But I don't do those poor conversions myself. Many 24 / 96 cards also allow for lesser quality recordings, like 16 bits / 44.1 Khz (The CD standard) or the recording software do a good job at input. Also when comparing 16 bits, an iMic won't cut it. It's about quality and what equipment is meant to be. An iMic shouldn't be regarded as something for recording vinyl, if you want to preserve the soul of the music. If you only go up to $60 there are options on the second hand market that are way better. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
iPhoto/iChat question
From: Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: iPhoto/iChat question Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 13:04:39 -0700 There's also Data Rescue X, http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue_info.php? PHPSESSID=9b48d09c3d090a69177d181d713ae64a Which is $89... -- Bruce Johnson You're a champ, Bruce! It won't be useful this time round because the incident happened a few weeks ago (don't ask why I waited so long before asking...), so I bet no files are left now (I'm running the demo just in case...). But it's great knowing that there is a data rescue utility for OS X - I had done a bit of googling around and it seemed as if there was no such utility around... My problem is solved anyway because on the Apple Discussion board it was suggested that I use the in-built screen capture, and indeed it worked! Got my photos back again. Thanks a lot, Walter -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Recording records/tapes (thanks)
On Apr 8, 2005, at 2:44 PM, Mikael Byström wrote: l, period. And, monetary bits aside, its only music, not life or death. No, it's death for your music, becuse dead is how it will sound, no matter what you pretend. Is not what I pretend, is what I hear, when you are 72 any sound is equal, no fine distinctions. Period. Hector I. Macedo Lord of the Flies Dallas, TX 75248 Piscaro Itaque dicet mendacium Then round his hook the chosen fur he winds, And on the back a speckled feather binds; So just the colours shine through ev'ry part, That nature seems to live again in art. John Gay Rural Sports 1720 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Data Rescue (was iPhoto/iChat Question)
From: Bruce Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: iPhoto/iChat question Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 13:04:39 -0700 There's also Data Rescue X, http://www.prosofteng.com/products/data_rescue_info.php? PHPSESSID=9b48d09c3d090a69177d181d713ae64a Which is $89... Ballmer monkey dance Backups! Backups! Backups!/ballmer -- Bruce Johnson Spoke too soon, Bruce. Data Rescue says quite clearly on its website that it will not recover deleted files in OS X. Basically it works if your entire HD is hosed. But it will only recover files that had not been deleted. Not if you have 'accidentally' deleted some files. In my case, I had done a rebuild of the iPhoto library (like I suggested to you a few months ago...). Thing is, that left two copies of the iPhoto library in the Pictures folder. I put one in the trash and backed up the other... Then I forgot the other one was in the trash, and a couple of days later, having forgotten I had left the other library in there, I clicked on the trash and chose 'empty trash' out of habit... Needless to say, the new library was the one in the trash... So now you know how NOT to backup... Thanks anyway, Walter -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
I got dem ol' Kosmic Pismo blues again mama
Dear Listers I seem to have been a bit unlucky when buying a Pismo on eBay. I hope you don't mind the following shaggy dog story. Firstly the DVD drive died within hours of receipt of the wee beauty. I bought a replacement mechanism but I can't put it in the dead drive's housing because I can't undo two of the screws. However, I was given an intact 24X CD-R drive and so I can put the DVD drive into its housing. This seems a waste. DOes anyone think I can drill the stuck screw out without damaging the housing beyond use? Next the power cable died. Replacement was easy and cheap, so I got as far as installing and configuring OSX, classic and other software. During a visit to England the power cables stopped delivering power to the Pismo. I was able to keep it charged using my mum's clamshell iBook cables. However, I then used it quite a lot, such that there was maybe 15 minutes left on the battery. Thinking that if the power cable was new then the fault must be in the yo-yo (the old one had had issues) I bought a brand-new one. By the time it arrived, I'd also received a bigger HD and so had installed that, following the Apple Service Manual's take-apart methods. I did have some trouble taking out the processor card because the wee plastic tag you have to pull on to extract this had torn before I received the Pismo. In the end, I used a pair of needle-nosed pliers to grasp the remnant of the tag and pull it up. I also put a 512MB RAM card that had been in the upper slot in the lower slot and put the 128MB card that had been in the lower slot into the upper slot (to make it easier to replace this when I can afford more RAM). I'm pretty sure that I reassembled everything properly. (It's possible that I didn't seat the processor card properly when I first reassembled it.) However, I can't start the Pismo using either the old nor the new yo-yo. The battery is completely flat but so long as the power cables are delivering power, should this matter? I can think of the following possible reasons for it not starting up * I've damaged the processor card * I've damaged the I/O logic board it connects to * when taking out or replacing the hard drive assembly, I've damaged the inverter board or soundcard (which also appears to be where the power switch is connected. I can't see any damaged cables and I'm loath to try to take it apart further to investigate.) * the power port has been damaged by dodgy power cables. * I've damaged the hard drive cable I know both of the old hard disk and the new hard disk are OK - when put into a USB enclosure, they mount on my G4/400 desktop. Any thoughts on how I can diagnose the fault(s) or should I go to my nearest Apple Service provider? thanks in advance Bruce Ryan -- -- immobile Bruce - laptop is toast, will stay in front of G4 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Swap List Trouble - OT WTB PowerMac Upgrades
Hello, I'm trying to subscribe to the swap list but my email to the subscribe address keeps bouncing. Anyone here able to help? On another note, I know it is off topic, but since I can't get onto the swap list, ... I'm looking for a G4 processor upgrade for a Sawtooth PowerMac (1.0 GHz or faster) and a Radeon 9000 or better video card for the same (AGP only, no PCI). If anyone has either of these items they no longer need, please drop me a line. Thanks, Andrew -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Vertical lines on iBook display?
All of a sudden, the screen on my daughter's iBook, a little more than 6 months old, is now displaying only vertical lines. They fill the entire screen. Starting from the left, there is a blue line of 1 or 2 pixels, then a black of 2 or 3, then a faint red of 1 pixel, then right next to it are 2 green lines, the first one being about 3 or 4 pixels, then a black line of 1 pixel and another green line of 1 pixel. Then, there is a black strip of about 4 or 5 pixels wide and the pattern starts over again with the blue line. The computer otherwise works fine. I did boot it in FireWire target mode to transfer my daughter's home directory on my old Pismo and everything went well. I must say that the pattern was slightly different when booted in target disk mode. I'll be taking it to the nearest Apple store tomorrow but I was wondering if anybody has seen this problem before. It is a 1.2GHz G4 iBook, 12, running 10.3.8. Any idea? Thanks in advance! -Laurent. -- Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelinhttp://nemesys.dyndns.org Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] elder days n.: The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly, pre-1980); the era of the PDP-10, TECO, ITS, and the ARPANET. This term has been rather consciously adopted from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings. Compare Iron Age; see also elvish and Great Worm. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Recording records/tapes - Choosing a sound card
All I have done so far is digitize old tapes using the mic port and Audio Hijacks Pro. Frankly, with the quality of those tapes not much would have helped. I just wanted to be able to listen to them on the computer. However, I do have some records I would like to digitize. Will any old sound card do? I am thinking under $100 on the used market. Which cards are better than others? Thanks, Mark -- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Apple Security Update (2005-003): PB crash!
I had a similar experience on an older PB about a month ago. Stability was good before I increased the RAM. Very poor stability with the new RAM. Stability returned with the original chips. As it turned out the backward compatibility as shown on the packaging was wrong. dklj On Apr 8, 2005, at 1:07 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: On 08/04/05 12:40, Francesco sciacca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip!] Given the symptoms reported above, what could be my next best bet move before I head directionless at guessing fixes, maybe creating more damage? I thought first that the file system was corrupted, but in that case a clean install should have cured it? And I suppose my next dumb question is: this is a Titanium G4. Is installing OS 10.3.5 from the DVD that came with my collegue Aluminum G4 a bad thing (as opposed to installing from the original CD)? [snip!] I think that your disk is having some problems. Have you tried, after booting from a system install disk to launch Disk Utility and format the drive, making sure that you turn on the option to write zeros? Before replacing the disk, you might want to try a disk repair utility like Disk Warrior, but that will add to the cost of getting another drive. I would guess that the drive has some problems, but this is mostly speculation. It is hard from the symptoms you describe to tell what is wrong... It is also possible that the iLife installation CD is corrupted or has been damaged. Did you had any 3rd party memory in that PowerBook? Is this the original hard disk? What Titanium model is this? When rebooting from the system install disk, did you make sure that no peripheral were connected? Specially USB peripherals, like mouse and/or keyboard? I don't think it is a problem installing from a DVD made for another PowerBook but you might want to try a generic OS X install disk, if you can, just to be sure. -Laurent. -- === = Laurent Daudelin Developer, Multifamily, ESO, Fannie Mae mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Washington, DC, USA Usual disclaimers apply *** -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com --- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: WiFi ISP
At 10:18 AM -0700 4/8/05, CR wrote: At 7:58 PM -0700 4/6/05, Dennis B. Swaney wrote: Cliff, does anything on this site look familiar? http://motorola.canopywireless.com Dennis. Interesting question and site. My provider reports that they are running a Trango system. Whatever that is? http://www.trangobroadband.com/ My understanding is that WiMax is the latest technology with wider range and maybe not even dependend or as dependent on line of site. Sounds like both the Canopy system and your system are very similar. -- Sincerely, Dennis B. Swaney -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Vertical lines on iBook display?
it sounds to me like it got jarred perhaps and some connection got knocked loose. but then again i'm not the apple store. i would check with them. On Apr 8, 2005, at 7:06 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: All of a sudden, the screen on my daughter's iBook, a little more than 6 months old, is now displaying only vertical lines. They fill the entire screen. Starting from the left, there is a blue line of 1 or 2 pixels, then a black of 2 or 3, then a faint red of 1 pixel, then right next to it are 2 green lines, the first one being about 3 or 4 pixels, then a black line of 1 pixel and another green line of 1 pixel. Then, there is a black strip of about 4 or 5 pixels wide and the pattern starts over again with the blue line. The computer otherwise works fine. I did boot it in FireWire target mode to transfer my daughter's home directory on my old Pismo and everything went well. I must say that the pattern was slightly different when booted in target disk mode. I'll be taking it to the nearest Apple store tomorrow but I was wondering if anybody has seen this problem before. It is a 1.2GHz G4 iBook, 12, running 10.3.8. Any idea? Thanks in advance! -Laurent. -- === = Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelin http://nemesys.dyndns.org Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] elder days n.: The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly, pre-1980); the era of the PDP-10, TECO, ITS, and the ARPANET. This term has been rather consciously adopted from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings. Compare Iron Age; see also elvish and Great Worm. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com --- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: I got dem ol' Kosmic Pismo blues again mama
Gosh, I'd just toss it! I'm not sure what to do, honestly. On Apr 8, 2005 5:06 PM, Bruce Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Listers I seem to have been a bit unlucky when buying a Pismo on eBay. I hope you don't mind the following shaggy dog story. Firstly the DVD drive died within hours of receipt of the wee beauty. I bought a replacement mechanism but I can't put it in the dead drive's housing because I can't undo two of the screws. However, I was given an intact 24X CD-R drive and so I can put the DVD drive into its housing. This seems a waste. DOes anyone think I can drill the stuck screw out without damaging the housing beyond use? Next the power cable died. Replacement was easy and cheap, so I got as far as installing and configuring OSX, classic and other software. During a visit to England the power cables stopped delivering power to the Pismo. I was able to keep it charged using my mum's clamshell iBook cables. However, I then used it quite a lot, such that there was maybe 15 minutes left on the battery. Thinking that if the power cable was new then the fault must be in the yo-yo (the old one had had issues) I bought a brand-new one. By the time it arrived, I'd also received a bigger HD and so had installed that, following the Apple Service Manual's take-apart methods. I did have some trouble taking out the processor card because the wee plastic tag you have to pull on to extract this had torn before I received the Pismo. In the end, I used a pair of needle-nosed pliers to grasp the remnant of the tag and pull it up. I also put a 512MB RAM card that had been in the upper slot in the lower slot and put the 128MB card that had been in the lower slot into the upper slot (to make it easier to replace this when I can afford more RAM). I'm pretty sure that I reassembled everything properly. (It's possible that I didn't seat the processor card properly when I first reassembled it.) However, I can't start the Pismo using either the old nor the new yo-yo. The battery is completely flat but so long as the power cables are delivering power, should this matter? I can think of the following possible reasons for it not starting up * I've damaged the processor card * I've damaged the I/O logic board it connects to * when taking out or replacing the hard drive assembly, I've damaged the inverter board or soundcard (which also appears to be where the power switch is connected. I can't see any damaged cables and I'm loath to try to take it apart further to investigate.) * the power port has been damaged by dodgy power cables. * I've damaged the hard drive cable I know both of the old hard disk and the new hard disk are OK - when put into a USB enclosure, they mount on my G4/400 desktop. Any thoughts on how I can diagnose the fault(s) or should I go to my nearest Apple Service provider? thanks in advance Bruce Ryan -- -- immobile Bruce - laptop is toast, will stay in front of G4 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com --- -- Chad Swarthout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: Vertical lines on iBook display?
My Lombard G3 does that as well with horizontal lines. The tiny silver connections in the display that connect the pixels up to the driver circuitry break. There is no chance of repair other then to replace the display module. On 09/04/2005, at 12:34, Andrea Stansbury wrote: it sounds to me like it got jarred perhaps and some connection got knocked loose. but then again i'm not the apple store. i would check with them. On Apr 8, 2005, at 7:06 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: All of a sudden, the screen on my daughter's iBook, a little more than 6 months old, is now displaying only vertical lines. They fill the entire screen. Starting from the left, there is a blue line of 1 or 2 pixels, then a black of 2 or 3, then a faint red of 1 pixel, then right next to it are 2 green lines, the first one being about 3 or 4 pixels, then a black line of 1 pixel and another green line of 1 pixel. Then, there is a black strip of about 4 or 5 pixels wide and the pattern starts over again with the blue line. The computer otherwise works fine. I did boot it in FireWire target mode to transfer my daughter's home directory on my old Pismo and everything went well. I must say that the pattern was slightly different when booted in target disk mode. I'll be taking it to the nearest Apple store tomorrow but I was wondering if anybody has seen this problem before. It is a 1.2GHz G4 iBook, 12, running 10.3.8. Any idea? Thanks in advance! -Laurent. -- == == Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelin http://nemesys.dyndns.org Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] elder days n.: The heroic age of hackerdom (roughly, pre-1980); the era of the PDP-10, TECO, ITS, and the ARPANET. This term has been rather consciously adopted from J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings. Compare Iron Age; see also elvish and Great Worm. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com --- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com --- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
Re: I got dem ol' Kosmic Pismo blues again mama
With that level of problems I'd go to the nearest Apple Service provider. The repairs at that point might be a lot more than it's worth. Sorry to hear of your blues. On Apr 8, 2005, at 10:45 PM, Chad Swarthout wrote: Gosh, I'd just toss it! I'm not sure what to do, honestly. On Apr 8, 2005 5:06 PM, Bruce Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Listers I seem to have been a bit unlucky when buying a Pismo on eBay. I hope you don't mind the following shaggy dog story. Firstly the DVD drive died within hours of receipt of the wee beauty. I bought a replacement mechanism but I can't put it in the dead drive's housing because I can't undo two of the screws. However, I was given an intact 24X CD-R drive and so I can put the DVD drive into its housing. This seems a waste. DOes anyone think I can drill the stuck screw out without damaging the housing beyond use? Next the power cable died. Replacement was easy and cheap, so I got as far as installing and configuring OSX, classic and other software. During a visit to England the power cables stopped delivering power to the Pismo. I was able to keep it charged using my mum's clamshell iBook cables. However, I then used it quite a lot, such that there was maybe 15 minutes left on the battery. Thinking that if the power cable was new then the fault must be in the yo-yo (the old one had had issues) I bought a brand-new one. By the time it arrived, I'd also received a bigger HD and so had installed that, following the Apple Service Manual's take-apart methods. I did have some trouble taking out the processor card because the wee plastic tag you have to pull on to extract this had torn before I received the Pismo. In the end, I used a pair of needle-nosed pliers to grasp the remnant of the tag and pull it up. I also put a 512MB RAM card that had been in the upper slot in the lower slot and put the 128MB card that had been in the lower slot into the upper slot (to make it easier to replace this when I can afford more RAM). I'm pretty sure that I reassembled everything properly. (It's possible that I didn't seat the processor card properly when I first reassembled it.) However, I can't start the Pismo using either the old nor the new yo-yo. The battery is completely flat but so long as the power cables are delivering power, should this matter? I can think of the following possible reasons for it not starting up * I've damaged the processor card * I've damaged the I/O logic board it connects to * when taking out or replacing the hard drive assembly, I've damaged the inverter board or soundcard (which also appears to be where the power switch is connected. I can't see any damaged cables and I'm loath to try to take it apart further to investigate.) * the power port has been damaged by dodgy power cables. * I've damaged the hard drive cable I know both of the old hard disk and the new hard disk are OK - when put into a USB enclosure, they mount on my G4/400 desktop. Any thoughts on how I can diagnose the fault(s) or should I go to my nearest Apple Service provider? thanks in advance Bruce Ryan -- -- immobile Bruce - laptop is toast, will stay in front of G4 -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com --- -- Chad Swarthout [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com --- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronics
battery power on wifi, G3 clamshell
Okay, I got the airport card for my clamshell, love it to death and enjoy being completely wire-free. However I noticed with the airport card, the battery life is seriously diminished. If I plan on using it without the power cord for any reason for a long time, I'll turn the screen brightness down and turn the sound off. that doesn't seem to make a huge difference, but it makes a little bit of one. It says it will work for like close to 2 hours. Does the battery need replacing or is this average for an older laptop? I noticed it gets down to a certain level with the battery displaying in red and then *boom* it shuts down and goes into sleep mode til I plug it back in. Any solutions or ideas? Should I just get a new battery? Andrea~ -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---
