Re: Apple laptop advice
On 24 Feb 2011, at 23:56, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: On Feb 24, 2011, at 4:42 PM, Mike Linnett wrote: I'm not sure what the question is, really, but Apple has never made a (RRP) $600 laptop. This is Low End Mac. Used computers sell for less than new. Amd the point is MS OS crap aside you can get a lot of PC laptop computer value made in the same asisan plants as Macs for $ 5-600. But Even aging klunker macs used can sell for that just because they are Macs. Not because their circuitry is any better nowr more reliable given that plants like ASUS make them all . Agreed, but the OP seemed to be complaining about the newly released macbooks being too expensive, hence the suggestion of a refurbed or second hand model from the previous generation or two. So apple never really abandoned the $600 market, it was never there to begin with? But used, there will be deals, especially after a product refresh -- 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
Re: Apple laptop advice
I'm not sure what the question is, really, but Apple has never made a (RRP) $600 laptop. If I was shopping for a new mac laptop today, I'd be after the 2010 13 inch MBP (they look to be about $800 refurb right now, so I might leave it a while, or shop around). Failing that, I'd go back a bit further and get one with the 9400m. Anything post-intel graphics would do me, and for that sort of money I'm sure a deal could be found. Isn't the new base MBP still only $999? Which is a bit shy of the $1300 I assume you were going for On 24 Feb 2011, at 19:43, Fluxstringer wrote: New MacBook Pro Laptops are out which is a problem in itself. So we have seen some concern here for mac laptop users who have concerns about staying wiht Mac this week The question is exactly how much can one expect from a $ 5 - 600 Low end Mac laptop? What shounld one look for? What OS will give the greatest continued usage. What about application support and browser ? And no please no glorified Pismos and other boat anchors. I am asking about machines that can do real work on today's internet and applications and get the job done. Apple has just plain abandoned users who cannot afford 13-14 k as a base price for a laptop. I know I have to put that in as many would forget and start talking about Minis and such. They probably will anyway ( sigh) -- 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
Re: App to Delete Unused Languages, Printers, Modems
Keep applejack, it's tiny, and lets you try and fix things if the actual OS won't boot. Monolingual will do most of the removing for you, and clear out unused architectures (you don't need the intel code from any universal apps, for example). Printers you can do on your own, all the drivers are in /Library/Printers, loads of them! On 22 Feb 2011, at 08:58, Judith Berkowitz wrote: I spent the weekend without internet access, so did a bit of housekeeping on my iBook G4 12 1.33 GHz 1GB SDRAM 80 GB Hard Drive I ran Onyx in all its modes, zapped PRam. Stowed all my 2010 mail in folders in the Mail client. I noticed that I have other apps on the HD that do more or less the same thing that Onyx does: Applejack, Cocktail, MacJanitor No reason to keep them around, right? Now I'm looking to gain a bit of space on the iBook's hard drive by deleting unused languages, modems, and printers. What would be good utilities to take care of this task? Thanks! -- 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 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
Re: Microphone doesn't work?
In system preferences, you should be able to select Line in as the audio source? That should show you if any signal is getting through. Doesn't the iMac have a built in mic? On 25 Jan 2011, at 23:12, Jeffrey Daile Engle wrote: I bought a logitec cheap-ola microphone today with 1/8th mini to plug into my G5 imac... it won't work? shouldn't it? Is there a work around or a third party driver that'll make it work? (I should say that it works fine on a winblows box) Jeff Engle Kamiah, Idaho 83536 -- 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 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
Re: Help needed for Mac Powerbook M7572, reload
On 24 Jan 2011, at 23:03, Wm. Arnold wrote: Hi experts, I did a dumb thing, I wiped the hard drive of this computer instead of writing all 0's. Now I can't reload an operating system. I have tried several ways including using an external DVD reader. I want to reload Mac OS10.3.2 Panther then OSX10.4 Tiger, both of which I have. Any help will be appreciated. Wm. in Bay Village, Ohio Not sure I qualify as an expert, but what messages is it giving you when you try and boot it from the install cd/dvd? If you have another mac available, can you boot the powerbook into target disk mode and hook them together with a firewire cable and install the OS from the other mac? Hope that makes some sort of sense Mike -- 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
Re: The Attack of the Giant Pixels
Sounds like the gpu is on it's way out. It could be worth taking it out and giving it (and the rest of the insides of the g5) a good clean though, and making sure everything is seated properly when you put it back together. Other things I'd test, in no particular order: 1-a different display, ideally with a different interface (assuming the card has a dvi and a VGA port). It could be a wonky connection 2-try the defective card in the other G5, just to try and isolate it to that component, rather than something on the logic board 3-try the good gpu in the new G5 On 16 Dec 2010, at 18:19, Tom tba...@nmia.com wrote: We have two G5s in our family. I have one, and I just got my wife one, too, off Ebay. My G5 had a 23-inch Apple Cinema Display (the old type with the acrylic plastic frame and legs) connected to it for the last couple of years and it worked fine. My G5 has the GeForce 6600 video card with 256 MB of VRAM. It gave me a choice of 17 different resolutions on that big monitor, up to 1920 X 1200. I gave the Cinema Display to my wife to use with her new G5. Hers came with the ATI Radeon 9600 video card, which also has 256 MB of VRAM. However, her G5 is only offering her one resolution: 1920 X 1200. Furthermore, big blocks of pixels, which look like big single megapixels about an eighth of inch square, appear at random all over the screen of the display, which never happened when it was connected to my G5. All it takes to get rid of one of these giant pixels is to swipe the cursor across it and it vanishes, but it's a real nuisance. They pop up within windows, within dialogue boxes, everywhere. My question is, does this sound like a defective video card in her machine? The person who sold us the G5 on Ebay said that this card could drive a 30-inch Apple display. All I can say is, it isn't working so well with this 23-incher. I want to get rid of these sprinklings of giant pixels on her screen and also give her a choice of more resolutions. Should I get a new video card for her G5? If so, what would be a good card to look for? Tom -- 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 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
Re: capture still pics from movies
On 4 Dec 2010, at 16:43, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: On Dec 4, 2010, at 7:39 AM, Len Gerstel wrote: On Dec 4, 2010, at 10:24 AM, John Carmonne wrote: I would like to capture still pics from .wmv files that dump into my iPhoto library from my digital Olympus camera. I can freeze the shot I want and click the pic to remove the control strip but as soon as I move the mouse to use a capture command the control panel reappears. I'm not finding an answer in iPhoto help. I'm using iPhoto '09. I'm hoping for a simple method to do this. Anyone else do this? John Carmonne Yorba Linda USA Sent from my MBP Have you tried using the old school command-shift-4 partial screen capture command? command shift 3 captures the whole screen, but 4 brings up cross hairs that allow you to only capture part of the screen. Len The command shift 4 will work fine but as soon as I move the mouse the control panel reappears in the picture. I need to get the picture without the panel in it. John Carmonne Yorba Linda USA Sent from my MBP If you fire up grab (in applications/utilities, I think) you can do a timed capture) or something, so it'll do a little countdown thing, then take a screenshot. That might work? -- 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
Re: .PDF from iPhoto event? is it possible?
Possibly not quite what you're after, but pages can save a document as a PDF, so you could put your pictures into there, write a bit about them, and export it as a PDF? Or, preview can also save as PDF. I'm not sure if there's an easy way to just create a PDF from iphoto though. Unless you can print the whole event, but rather than physically printing it, you could use osx's print to PDF feature, et voila? Or, I know that if you create a greetings card of some sort in iphoto, it'll let you save that as a PDF you can print yourself, not sure you can do the same thing with one of it's (iphoto) photo books On 27 Nov 2010, at 18:21, Brian Fuelleman fontgee...@yahoo.com wrote: You can email individual photos to yourself then take those individual images and create a pdf file in Acrobat. From: Jeffrey Engle macgu...@gmail.com To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Sent: Fri, November 26, 2010 7:29:03 PM Subject: .PDF from iPhoto event? is it possible? Is it possible to export an iPhoto event to a .pdf file? reason being I want to make a repair manual and it would be real handy to be able to do that. Jeff Engle Kamiah Idaho 83536 -- 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 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 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
Re: Getting there
On 17 Nov 2010, at 20:37, Amanda Ward amanda.w...@comcast.net wrote: Hi Larry... On Nov 17, 2010, at 12:29 PM, Lawrence David Eden wrote: I installed OSX 10.4 on my old Smurf and XPostFacto was required. 10.2 (Jaguar) was the last OS version that was fully supported on the Smurf. Larry I have two BW machines that would respectfully disagree. Installed and running OS X 10.4.11 (Looked it up.) no problems. Amanda Me too, except it's been 3 smurfs. FireWire+DVD drive = supported by Tiger, no? -- 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
Re: Yosemite G3 issues, upgrade questions and Tiger startup script
Howdy, I don't know enough to answer everything, but: The fans on all my smurfs stay on when asleep, agreed, this is annoying! I assume you're running tiger? Camino has been acting up for me lately, and even the optimised build seems slower than safari, which never used to be the case! I'd carefully consider spending money on upgrades at this point. If you already have the parts, or can get them VERY cheaply, then go for it! I'd be interested in the gpu upgrade too. As far as I'm aware, if it'll physically fit into the logicboard, the CPU should work, but might need firmware update. Again, from memory, pci extreme support stops even earlier, at like 10.4.3, or something, which is a shame, otherwise I believe anything over a 9200 supports core image. Automator (started with osx in 10.4), could help with your script thing. I've not used it much, but you can probably tell it to launch terminal, run your script, then quit terminal? Good luck dude, I'm a pretty big fan of the Blue+White G3! Mike On 16 Nov 2010, at 11:27, Mac User #330250 macuser330...@gmx.net wrote: Hi there! ### # Specs: # Apple Power Mac G3 Blue White (Codename “Yosemite”) #PowerMac1,1 #Rev.1 system board (faulty CMD646 IDE chipset!) # 350 MHz G3 (PowerPC 750) # 1.0 GB of PC100 SDRAM # 32GB CF drive as main boot drive (using a CF-to-IDE adapter) # ATi Rage 128 PCI graphics card # USB 2.0 PCI expansion card #http://lowendmac.com/ppc/blue-white-power-mac-g3.html #http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g3/stats/powermac_g3_350_bl.html ### I'm now running this “Yosemite” at work for some time now. I'm really satisfied. Only some things concern me: 1) When I disconnect the USB keyboard (plus Mouse, which is connected to the USB 1.1 Hub of the keyboard) right after I locked the screen, I am unable to log in again. It will refuse to re-activate the USB keyboard+mouse once reattacted to the USB 1.1 port of my G3 BW. 2) Putting it to standby is strange: a) it goes into standby alright, but the fans remain on. Waking up is working correctly. b) after standby-wakeup it will not shut down correctly, meaning: it hangs forever on shutdown 3) I noticed that the standard builds of Mozilla Firefox and Camino (at least) keep crashing regularly. I then tried the optimized builds mentioned here: http://lowendmac.com/tech/optimized-builds.html Firefox: http://firefoxmac.furbism.com/ Camino: http://www.rpm-mozilla.org.uk/builds/camino/ 4) Strangest thing: I have a USB 2.0 PCI expansion card installed (NEC chip). When I have an external USB 2.0 hub connected AND this hub is then also powered with a seperate +5V power supply to be able to give full USB power to connected devices (such as external 2.5 inch hard disks) IT DOES NOT power up. But when this external +5V power supply is disconnected it starts normally. I can then reconnect the power supply to use more than one external 2.5 inch hard drive. 5) When the system is very busy and I enter something (like the login password) and press enter, all keys are stored and processed later, except for the Enter/Return keys. This is a good behaviour of Mac OS X, only that my G3 is very often very busy and it can be annoying sometimes. I'd like to know your thoughts on these issues. Additionally, about upgrade options: 1) Which CPU G3/G4 ZIF upgrade should I consider? I've seen a G4 800 MHz ZIF card lately that doesn't use fans, so it would be very silent. Isn't there a MHz limit on the early G3 Rev.1 boards such as mine? (500 MHz is vaguely poping up in my head) 2) PCI graphics card: I have a PC card version of a Radeon 9250 PCI. I'm looking for modifying it for the Mac, like found here: http://themacelite.wikidot.com/9250-trick Have any of you tried that already? Will it work? 3) What about getting Quartz Extreme working? PCI-Extreme or something? Does it work with Mac OS X 10.4.11 also (I've read somewhere it works up to 10.4.8 only…)? 4) What about Core Image? I fear a Radeon 9250 won't support it. Is it important? I'm glad about every help I can get with upgrade decissions… I also have a problem with a startup script – that is, I want to add a personal startup script, but don't know how. 1) I made a shell script, originally myscript.sh, that I want to be executed after each login. I found that renaming it to myscript.command and adding it to start objects of my user in the control panel works, but also always opens the Terminal application and leaves it open therafter. Isn't there a better way? Thanks in advance, Andreas aka Mac User #330250 -- 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
Re: Camino
Agreed, camino seems to have lost something lately. I did stumble upon omniweb last night and it seems pretty good, but then I only used it for half an hour! Mike On 5 Oct 2010, at 06:58, Ashgrove salum...@gmail.com wrote: Steve, Camino used to be my favorite browser, but at some point it became this humongous RAM hog. So it switched to Firefox, which recently became very unstable dealing with Google sites. So I switched to Safari, which hasn't let me down yet... Felix On Oct 5, 1:31 am, Stephen Conrad khel...@gmail.com wrote: I see it doesn't like a lot of windows open I think I had 5 and none had more than 6-7 tabs (I had each page as a group of similar tabs) It kept showing the Application Not Responding (when I right clicked the icon) So, of the 3 browsers I still use (FF, Safari and Camino) none are without flaws *sighs* Will they ever get better? -- Steve Conrad Henrietta, MO 64036 The time has come for mankind to grow up and leave its cradle behind; to go forth and claim our place in outer space. - Capt. Henry Gloval (\__/) (='.'=) ()_() Help Bunny Take Over The World! -- 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 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
Re: speech - voice recognition problem
Hmm, have you got mic plugged in? iMacs and many laptops have built in microphones but I don't think any of the towers do. Mike On 13 Sep 2010, at 14:20, Nikša Siminiati nik.simini...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to set my computer to speak. I don't understand why I can't properly calibrate input - as I press the esc key following the procedure I get only a default error beep and I can't come to next step - to speak phrases like what's the time and so on. I use Leopard on PowerMac G5 1.8. Any suggestions? Thanx Nick -- 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 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
Stuck with safe boot
Evening all, My MDD is playing up. When booting normally it gets as far as the blue screen (before the login window appears) and that's it. Most annoying. I can do a safe boot (holding shift) and it'll boot and be useable, but it's not quite the same. So far I have tried running the 10.5.8 combo update (this has fixed things in the past), resetting the PRAM, running applejack in AUTO mode, and letting onyx do everything in it's automation panel. Disk utility has verified/repaired permissions and verified the boot disk is ok. Any ideas? The specs are: Dual 1.25 2gb of ram Leopard 10.5.8 Airport card USB card Radeon 9800 The symptoms started after I pulled the gpu to give the fan a bit of a clean, if that helps any? Cheers for any assistance! Mike -- 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
Re: Stuck with safe boot
On 17 Aug 2010, at 00:14, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Aug 16, 2010, at 4:00 PM, Mike Linnett wrote: Evening all, My MDD is playing up. When booting normally it gets as far as the blue screen (before the login window appears) and that's it. Most annoying. Snip The symptoms started after I pulled the gpu to give the fan a bit of a clean, if that helps any? Try resetting the Radeon card, or find out what got dislodged when you removed it or blasted it with air. If by 'pulled the gpu' means you actually removed things FROM the Radeon card, I'd look to reseat the thing. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs Hmm, haven't tried reseating the card, simple things eh? Cheers Bruce. I removed the fan from the card, blasted it with air and screwed it back on, but that's it, nothing too technical. It all displays fine if I do a safe boot, but I'd prefer to not have to do that forever. Mike -- 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
Repair tiger disk from leopard?
Howdy all, Is it advisable to use leopards disk utility to repair a drive with tiger installed on it, or is that likely to mess things up on the tiger volume? Backstory is that I'm visiting my grandmother who has an iMac g3 running tiger, and I thought I'd run through onyx's maintenance stuff while I'm here and it says to boot from the install disk to repair the hard drive, but I'm sans install disk, but do have my PowerBook with me, which is running leopard. I figured I'd boot the iMac into target disk mode and repair it from the PowerBook, but slightly concerned about the different os versions. Cheers for input! Mike -- 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
Re: Repair tiger disk from leopard?
On 4 Aug 2010, at 09:34, Clark Martin cm...@sonic.net wrote: On 8/4/10 1:02 AM, Mike Linnett wrote: Howdy all, Is it advisable to use leopards disk utility to repair a drive with tiger installed on it, or is that likely to mess things up on the tiger volume? Backstory is that I'm visiting my grandmother who has an iMac g3 running tiger, and I thought I'd run through onyx's maintenance stuff while I'm here and it says to boot from the install disk to repair the hard drive, but I'm sans install disk, but do have my PowerBook with me, which is running leopard. I figured I'd boot the iMac into target disk mode and repair it from the PowerBook, but slightly concerned about the different os versions. Using Disk Repair should be fine. But don't try Repair Permissions that way, that will mess things up. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway Thanks Clark, I think it must've been the don't cross pollinate repair permissions thing that I'd remembered and was giving me concerns! Cheers Mike -- 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
Re: Repair tiger disk from leopard?
On 4 Aug 2010, at 15:13, Al Poulin alfred.pou...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 4, 4:02 am, Mike Linnett mike.dogho...@googlemail.com wrote: Howdy all, Is it advisable to use leopards disk utility to repair a drive with tiger installed on it, or is that likely to mess things up on the tiger volume? Backstory is that I'm visiting my grandmother who has an iMac g3 running tiger, and I thought I'd run through onyx's maintenance stuff while I'm here and it says to boot from the install disk to repair the hard drive, but I'm sans install disk, but do have my PowerBook with me, which is running leopard. I figured I'd boot the iMac into target disk mode and repair it from the PowerBook, but slightly concerned about the different os versions. On a hunch, I would download the Tiger version of OnyX to the PowerBook and use that to treat the iMac. And I would check to see if there is a difference between OnyX versions for G3/4/5 machines as opposed to Intel machines. Al Poulin Ahh well, I repaired the disk (twice, to be sure) from leopard, re-ran the tests and stuff and it all seems to be ok. From what I can see there's different versions of onyx based on which version of osx you're running, but that's about it. -- 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
Re: 2 drives act the same?
Howdy. I think you need to hold shift, or command, or something when you click eject, can't remember which though, sorry! On 16 Jul 2010, at 20:22, Jeffrey Engle macgu...@gmail.com wrote: I just installed two identical optical drives in my MDD, and when I go up to the menu and click on eject the machine only recognizes one drive (because they're both identical) How can I have control over each one individually? how can I make the hdd see them differently? Jeff Jeffrey Engle macgu...@gmail.com Kamiah, Idaho 83536 Machine Info: Model Name: Power Mac G4 Mac OS X: Leopard 10.5.8 (build 9L31a) Model Identifier: PowerMac3,6 Processor Name: PowerPC G4 (3.3) Processor Speed:1.42 GHz Number Of CPUs: 2 L2 Cache (per CPU): 256 KB L3 Cache (per CPU): 2 MB Memory: 2 GB Bus Speed: 167 MHz Boot ROM Version: 4.6.0f1 Serial Number (system): XB3130D0NP3 Disk burning: 2x Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-118L Video: NVIDIA GeForce MX 128mb Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 245bw -- 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 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
Re: Cube vs TiBook reliablity
Obviously the cubes want you to give them to me! What sort of issues? Could it be worth cloning one of the ti book hard drives to one of the cubes? If all runs well from there, it probably means it's a hardware issue at least? Otherwise, take em apart and give everything (especially contacts) a good clean? On 10 Jul 2010, at 16:45, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: Hi All I have a question about the reliability of some Macs. I have two G4 Cube 500MHz and two Tibook 500MHz machines. The Cubes seem to be somewhat problem prone compared to the TiBooks. Both have the same 10.4.11 the Cubes have 1.5 GB Ram and the TiBooks have 1 GB Ram. Otherwise AFAICT all are the same, yet the TiBooks run along with out any hitch but the Cubes at least once a week have an issue' Anyone know maybe why? John Carmonne Yorba Linda USA Sent from my MBP -- 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 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
Re: G4 MDD won't boot frm FW
On 7 Jul 2010, at 04:49, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: On Jul 6, 2010, at 6:55 PM, Chance Reecher wrote: 1.) Reinstalling the OS will have no affect on the ability to boot from FireWire. That's the firmware. 2.)If you could read, he said he can't boot from an OS disc. But yes, reinstalling the OS would be the simple fix to the blue-screen hang. Mark Sokolovsky wrote: That is so weird, I had the same story on my sawtooth where leopard crashed on a 320GB SATA HDD. Re-install the OS. I got it fixed I don't understand this I had to reinstall the OS to get it working The FW nor the internal optical would boot, I took all apart and reset the CUDA, the full Monty, even switch out the RAM, every thing I could think of. So to get the installer to boot I put the image on a 8 GIG stick and booted on USB and did the reinstall. Now every thing is working. The MDD seems to rely on the drive in the forward bay, if it's screwed up the things go haywire. That's what I think, I've been at this for hours and this is what I did. I think what ever is on the end of the cable on the fastest Bus is what will decide what's gong to happen on an MDD. The darn things even need a special ROM to boot 9. John Carmonne Yorba Linda USA Sent from my MBP Rather than doing a full reinstall, you might try applying the 10.5.8 combo update (available straight from the apple site). That fixed it for me on my FW800. It does mean having another leopard volume available to boot from though, but start the problem mac up in target disk mode et voilà -- 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
Re: iMac G5 Overheating
Could just be the spotlight indexing thing hogging your CPU for a while, should settle down after an hour or two? On 2 Jul 2010, at 09:39, Jonas Ulrich jonasulrich3...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, help would be greatly appreciated. I have a G5 1.8GHZ iMac 17. I just installed leopard and am using the computer for the first time. The fans are revved waaay up, and the temp monitor reads around 180+F. The limit is 185 it says. It's clean on the inside, and it has good capacitors, and it passed the ASD diagnostics. Please help me! Thanks! -Jonas -- 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 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
Re: iMac G5 Overheating
Cool! Simple things eh? On 2 Jul 2010, at 17:21, Jonas Ulrich jonasulrich3...@gmail.com wrote: Oh good thinking!!! I think that did the trick! It is now at a happy noise level (whisper quiet) and running at a happy 130F! Thank! -Jonas On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 6:44 AM, Illirik Smirnov illir...@gmail.com wrote: What Mike said. Let it run overnight, and if it shuts off at 185 you might have a problem. Sent from a computer running either the SPARC, Itanium, or PowerPC architecture. On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Mike Linnett mike.dogho...@googlemail.com wrote: Could just be the spotlight indexing thing hogging your CPU for a while, should settle down after an hour or two? On 2 Jul 2010, at 09:39, Jonas Ulrich jonasulrich3...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, help would be greatly appreciated. I have a G5 1.8GHZ iMac 17. I just installed leopard and am using the computer for the first time. The fans are revved waaay up, and the temp monitor reads around 180+F. The limit is 185 it says. It's clean on the inside, and it has good capacitors, and it passed the ASD diagnostics. Please help me! Thanks! -Jonas -- 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 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 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 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 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
Re: BW G3 - G4 Upgrade Revisited.
I noticed the Yikes didn't have a ADB Bus so I would have to replace my keyboard and mouse (which I really like). But I can learn to live without Basically, any USB KB and Mouse will work with a G4 Mac. I am currently using (please forgive me) a Dell KB and MS wireless mouse with my DA. No issues at all. Len I've heard mention of a USB to adb adapter too, search the list archives? I think it was called an iMate? That would allow you to keep using the old keyboard/mouse on anything with USB! Mike -- 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
Blue and White G4?
Morning list, Quick (I hope) question. I have a couple of sawtooth G4's that aren't being used at the minute, and the cases are pretty bashed up and need a really good clean. But I also have a couple of smurfs that are in pretty nice condition, one is the wifes office machine and the other is just sat next to the tv sharing it's wifi with the xbox and serving movies to it etc. So, the question is, can I pull the processor from a sawtooth and plug it into the smurf? -- 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
Re: Can I add IR to my Quicksilver?
No idea about the IR I'm afraid, but how about using screen sharing (can be enabled on tiger by ticking the apple remote desktop box in the sharing bit of system prefs, tis built into leopard I think), that way you could use the MacBook (or other laptop, or iPhone, or anything that'll run VNC) to control the quicksilver? OR, a Bluetooth USB dongle and find a keyboard/mouse you like? On 18 May 2010, at 09:03, Godai-kun godai@gmail.com wrote: I have a dual-800 Quicksilver which I'm using mostly as a media center. Which means I am forever hauling a mouse and keyboard across the room to change channels, adjust volume, and so forth. What I would like to do (since I know the Quicksilver doesn't have a built-in IR port) is to add one, so that I can use the Apple Remote that came with my MacBook. Is this possible? Is it even advisable? I'd also be willing to do this via RF, but would prefer to keep whatever device I use as small as possible, which leaves out all of the huge multimedia keyboards I've seen on sale. Anybody know of a device that's much smaller to do the trick? Thanks for your time. -- 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 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
Re: Blue and White G4?
On 18 May 2010, at 19:08, Peter Haas peterh...@cruzio.com wrote: On May 18, 2010, at 9:24 AM, John Ruschmeyer wrote: A minor caveat on installing a G4 in a BW. Before installing the G4, you also have to install a firmware patch which removes the block on G4s. Also, based on a bad personal experience, I'd be wary of installing a G4 from a Yikes in a Rev. 1 BW. I updated two of my Rev. 2 BWs to G4s (using Yikes! processors and the usual firmware block removal application) mainly to be able to run a later version of Toast, one which had some more standard features than the older one. I was under-whelmed by the performance of the pseudo-G4, and that ultimately lead me to, first, the Gigabit Ethernet G4s (100 MHz bus), and, second, to the Digital Audio G4s (133 MHz bus). Every Digital Audio in my shop was eventually updated to a dual 1.0 GHz Quicksilver 2002 processor, but I stopped there with the G4s, as the Intels proved to be tremendously faster, at least for the video work which I do on a day-to-day basis. I liked the Smurfs, but the Digital Audios proved to be an important, and a significant upgrade, and I still use one at least 18 hours per day (I am writing this on my last in-service DA), although most of my video work has been shifted elsewhere. Yea, I think this project is pretty much dead, I just figured as I had the parts... The smurfs do the job as they are, and I've a couple of dual g4 towers for my (not particularly) heavy lifting. I might just give the sawtooths a clean and refreecycle them or something -- 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
Re: Custom DVDs
On 2 May 2010, at 20:35, Clark Martin wrote: On 5/2/10 10:58 AM, John Carmonne wrote: Hi All I would like to be able to extract certain chapters from a DVD rip to be able to burn to single layer DVDs without compression. I can't find this option on Toast. All it will do for me is compress to fit to SL DVD I don't want compression. I there a way to do this./ I hope I explained it right. Uncompressed video is huge. A DVD is going to hold minutes of video. You could try importing it into iMovie then burn the DVD from those files. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway Howdy True, but if it's already on a normal (video) DVD, it'll already be compressed, right? I don't think we're talking raw camera footage here. So, aren't DVD's MPEG-2? So I'd go for finding some way to rip from the source DVD it as MPEG-2, then it should be able to be burned straight back to another DVD without needing any re-encoding or compression. Of course, this is all theory and I could be very, very wrong -- 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
Re: iPhoto
On 27 Apr 2010, at 05:46, Brian Christmas b...@tpg.com.au wrote: On 27/04/2010, at 2:32 PM, roman...@ideal-access.com wrote: I have various cameras. Canon, Panasonic and Nikon mostly. Why doesn't iPhoto just pick up where it left off and download the new stuff? G'day When you import from any camera, iPhoto should recognize any previous photos that it already has stored, and offer to import a second copy, or ignore the previously existing ones. Regards Santa Aye, I think there's a hide duplicates checkbox near the bottom of the screen when you go to import stuff. Or it may be hide already imported or something -- 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
Re: iPhoto
On 27 Apr 2010, at 06:30, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: On Apr 26, 2010, at 11:32 PM, roman...@ideal-access.com wrote: I have various cameras. Canon, Panasonic and Nikon mostly. Why doesn't iPhoto just pick up where it left off and download the new stuff? If you select Import All it only takes the new stuff, it shouldn't duplicate anything. Oh yea, on older versions it will just pop up a new window saying this looks a lot like this one you've already imported, do you want to import it again?. Tick the apply to all box and then click on no -- 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
Re: Lost files?
Oops! Check out data rescue. I think they have a trial version that'll show you the files it's recovered but you need to stump up the funds to actually recover the stuff. Takes a while to run it's scan, and sometimes doesn't get the right file names, and needs a bit of free space, but it gets the job done! Saved me a few times, as always, ymmv, and I'm in no way affiliated with anybody Mike On 24 Apr 2010, at 05:22, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: Hi All I just made a mistake with RsyncX I thought I was backing up one folder of music to a 1 TB drive and when I was looking at the progress I saw that it removed all the folders on the drive instead of just the one I was copying. So I stopped the process but I think I lost a lot of stuff. Is there a magic bullet to get the stuff back or am I SOL? John Carmonne Yorba Linda USA Sent from my MBP -- 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 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
Re: Generic USB 2 PCI card
Hmm, at least that narrows it down to the card Can you see the disk in the left hand panel of disk utility when it's plugged into the pci card? It could be that disk utility is seeing it but it's not being mounted for sone reason. Not too likely though. What does it say in system profiler under pci cards? Mine says something like pci1106,3038__USB Universal Host ControllerYesPCISLOT-3 I think the important bit is the Yes in the Driver Installed column. I can send you a screenshot off list if that'll make more sense On 18 Apr 2010, at 00:55, roman...@ideal-access.com wrote: Has the drive been formatted already? Does it show up in disk utility? Yes, It's been formatted by disk Utility and shows up when connected to the native USB1 port on the Quicksilver and also when connected to a cheap USB 1 hub. The new PCI card is a USB 2.1? However, originally I think the drive shipped as a Fat 32? which I erased because I tried to CCC a bootable system on it. That didn't work but I did get a successful back up. I was running OS X 10.3.9 at the time and now I'm on Tiger 10.4.11 Name : Iomega E xternal HD Media Type : Disk Disk Identifier : disk1 Media Name :Iomega E xternal HD Media Media Type :Generic Connection Bus :USB IO Content :Apple_partition_scheme Writable : Yes Ejectable : Yes Mac OS 9 Drivers Installed :Yes Location : External Total Capacity :931.5 GB (1,000,204,886,016 Bytes) S.M.A.R.T. status : Not Supported Disk Number : 1 Partition Number : 0 The partitions are @ 310 gigs each x 3 thanks for you help -- 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 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
Re: Generic USB 2 PCI card
Oh yea, the other suggestion would be to take the external enclosure apart and just plug the hard drive in inside the machine, which again, might not be that much use! On 18 Apr 2010, at 18:09, Mike Linnett mike.dogho...@googlemail.com wrote: Hmm, at least that narrows it down to the card Can you see the disk in the left hand panel of disk utility when it's plugged into the pci card? It could be that disk utility is seeing it but it's not being mounted for sone reason. Not too likely though. What does it say in system profiler under pci cards? Mine says something like pci1106,3038__USB Universal Host ControllerYesPCISLOT-3 I think the important bit is the Yes in the Driver Installed column. I can send you a screenshot off list if that'll make more sense On 18 Apr 2010, at 00:55, roman...@ideal-access.com wrote: Has the drive been formatted already? Does it show up in disk utility? Yes, It's been formatted by disk Utility and shows up when connected to the native USB1 port on the Quicksilver and also when connected to a cheap USB 1 hub. The new PCI card is a USB 2.1? However, originally I think the drive shipped as a Fat 32? which I erased because I tried to CCC a bootable system on it. That didn't work but I did get a successful back up. I was running OS X 10.3.9 at the time and now I'm on Tiger 10.4.11 Name : Iomega E xternal HD Media Type : Disk Disk Identifier : disk1 Media Name :Iomega E xternal HD Media Media Type :Generic Connection Bus :USB IO Content :Apple_partition_scheme Writable : Yes Ejectable : Yes Mac OS 9 Drivers Installed :Yes Location : External Total Capacity :931.5 GB (1,000,204,886,016 Bytes) S.M.A.R.T. status : Not Supported Disk Number : 1 Partition Number : 0 The partitions are @ 310 gigs each x 3 thanks for you help -- 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 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
Re: Generic USB 2 PCI card
Has the drive been formatted already? Does it show up in disk utility? On 17 Apr 2010, at 22:41, roman...@ideal-access.com wrote: I've installed this card into a Quicksilver hoping to get some extra speed through a USB port. The card recognizes my various cameras but will not allow an external USB Mass Storage device to mount. It's an Iomega 1 TB external enclosure partitioned into 3 sections. The drive powers up but no mounting occurs. The drive has it's own power source of 12 volts and an on off switch. It lights up and gives a small whirl but no icons appear. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Roman -- 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 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
Re: Hard drive failing
I'd give data rescue ii a go on it, I think they have a free trial, and you'll need at least one drive with a fair bit of free space on it On 21 Mar 2010, at 08:24, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: Hi All I have a Seagate 500 Gig in a G4 MDD that just showed red and the S.M.A.R.T says it's failing and I can't get files off it. Anyone know a way to get the files off? I have 320 GIGs of movies on it. it mounts and I can read it . I ran Drive Genius 2 on it but no cigar. The drive is only about 14 months old and only used for storage it has 10.5.8 on it. John Carmonne Yorba Linda USA -- 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 To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list +unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words REMOVE ME as the subject. -- 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 To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words REMOVE ME as the subject.
Re: Proof that Apple could not have dropped ADB support in Tiger and Leo
On 22 Feb 2010, at 06:00, Kasey Smith kasm...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 21, 2010, at 10:08 PM, Clark Martin wrote: On 2/21/10 7:18 PM, Kasey Smith wrote: On Feb 21, 2010, at 7:38 PM, Bob Whiton wrote: It didn't have an external ADB plug, it was purely to run the *internal* keyboard and trackpad. My G4 iBook running Leopard shows no USB devices, either in System Profiler or USB Prober. It does however have the following files in /System/Library/Extensions: AppleADBButtons.kext AppleADBKeyboard.kext AppleADBMouse.kext I find the ADBButtons.kext quite interesting... i wonder if the kexts for the touchpad and buttons are separate or if its another device... Also, for what it's worth, my blue and white g3 running tiger works just fine with an apple extended keyboard (possibly 2) plugged into it's adb port. I'm sure someone somewhere with a hacked Leo install on a g4 upgraded smurf (or earlier) musthave tried out the adb ports? -- 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
Re: Mac Mini G4 with double hard drive a possible solution?
If the SATA HD is in a USB enclosure this is NOT bootable in the G4 Mini, you need an Intel Mini to be able to boot USB. Just to point out, for the sake of completeness, that quite a few PowerPC macs CAN boot from USB, but it's apparently a bit hit and miss, and slow. Especially over USB 1.1 on the G3 and G4 systems. Can't/too lazy to post links from my phone but a google of boot PowerPC mac from USB returns a few likely candidates. FireWire is a much better bet though, but it could be useful in an emergency or something -- 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
Re: Replacement
On 8 Jan 2010, at 19:31, Norm nrow...@roadrunner.com wrote: When I type reset nvram then reset all it cycles back to open firmware. Sorry if this sounds stupid, but just to be clear, you're typing them as seperate commands, so reset nvram (press enter), then type reset all (press enter)? Also, try unplugging everything not needed to boot the machine and see if that helps? Just leave the boot drive, video card, and 1 stick of ram in (might need 2x256MB sticks as a minimum to get leopard to boot tho)? Try a different video card? Will it boot into target disk mode? Got another mac with FireWire? General fault finding routine -- 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
iMic
Howdy, I'm in the process of getting a little ghetto recording studio set up in my house and pretty much just need a way of getting multiple instruments recorded into one mac, so have been looking at audio interfaces, which can be quite pricey. But those griffin imic things are pretty cheap (but will only take one instrument). Anyone tried plugging more than one in at a time? Like 4 or 5? Not sure if having the os see them all as seperate inputs would bog things down too much, where something a bit more pro from m-audio or the like would handle the load better. The plan would be to record as live as possible The other, more ghetto but far more inefficient plan is to record each instrument into seperate computers,then copy the files over onto the main one for tweaking. Cheers for any help! Mike -- 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
Upgrade options on G4 powermac
Mornin all. I've just bagged myself a new (to me) powermac courtesy of ebay, which should be a FW800 model, according to the serial number and http://www.chipmunk.nl/klantenservice/applemodel.html , although mactracker thinks its a regular MDD version, either way, I'm pretty stoked! Should be a decent upgrade to my battered 12inch powerbook, and allow that to perform a much lighter role, instead of being my main computer. I havent got my grubby little mits on it yet, but it's allegedly got 1GB of RAM, a couple 1.25ghz processors but no hard drive. Hard drive's aren't an issue, I've got a couple of decent IDE drives in external enclosures that I'm thinking of using with the software RAID thing to boost performance (this worth doing on the ATA bus, or should I spring for a sata card/drives at some point and do it that way?), and a couple of not so decent ones that I'll use for storage or something. I know striping RAID is a bit dodgy if one of the volumes fails, so will be rocking some kind of backup solution, probably with help from time machine. I've got some RAM laying around that may or may not be compatible, or can pull some from a couple of old G3 imacs (will that work?), or splash the cash on some fresh stuff to max it out (for about £30 hopefully). Oh, and picked up a USB2 card so I can still sync my phone and it wont take a week to get the pics from my camera, etc. So, the only thing posing me any real problem is which graphics card to plug into it. Research tells me the best performance-wise is a flashed 7800gs, but I can't find one for sale anywhere, or have the means to flash one myself, but ebay has many an ATI 9600 and/or 9800, which seem like a pretty good alternative, thoughts? Cheers in advance for any input! Mike --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, 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 To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
