Re: New i7 iMac microphone input low

[Tina K.]

On 2010/11/28 21:26, Santa so eloquently wrote:

I have a new i7 iMac, and have struggled with a very low mic input
level for several hours. I've turned the System Preferences/Sound/
Input level up, but even shouting will not drive the blue bars past
half way.


Are you using the built-in, line-in, or USB mic? If you are using the 
built-in mic I would take it to Apple, or at least call them. If you are 
using line-in the mic probably needs a pre-amp.


Tina

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Re: Screen resolution on TV

[Clark Martin]

On Nov 26, 2010, at 5:33 PM, Mystic Prowler wrote:

I recently bought a 65" Plasma screen TV for my power mac G4  
sawtooth. I am thinking about getting one of those DVI to S-video/ 
TV input adapters that Apple has for my computer to achieve better  
screen resolution. Currently, the screen is a little blurry with a  
1024x768 resolution. Is it possible to boost that to maybe...  
1600x1200 and get the fonts more readable? Also, I have am ATI  
Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB AGP card in my Sawtooth that came from a PC  
but was flashed. Will the adapter work and can I get my better  
screen resolutions?


How are you connecting now?

S-Video is good for maybe 800x600.  I've used systems at 1024x768  
with it but it doesn't really improve things, there are more pixels  
but they are even more blurry.


Doesn't that TV have DVI, HDMI or VGA input (most digital TVs seem to).

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Re: Leopard on a 2x450 PowerMac

[Steven]

I understand what you mean, but in my case I was referring to things like 
PowerBook specific code being left out of the iMac disk (just a hypothetical 
example), and so on. Apple didn't remove PowerPC code until Snow Leopard, even 
from Intel builds, which is why installing Snow Leopard opens up a couple 
gigabytes of free space. Also, I was just saying that misterbleepy's logic was 
reasonable. I don't know any details about the various machine-specific disks 
other than the fact that certain disks will refuse to install on machines other 
than the ones they were designed for.

Steven


On Nov 30, 2010, at 1:20 PM, Mystic Prowler wrote:

> Not necessarily though. I was able to boot from and install Mac OS X Leopard 
> on my G4 iMac 800 using my Macbook Pro system install disk version 10.5.2. It 
> had both the PowerPC Code and the Intel code even though it was specifically 
> designed for the intel machine. I am not lying, go check it out for yourself.
> 
> On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Tina K.  wrote:
> On 2010/11/30 11:38, Steven so eloquently wrote:
> That sounds right. If you'll remember, when Snow Leopard came out one
> of the biggest improvements was gigabytes of hard drive space freed
> up, since there was no more doubled PowerPC code. I think it is
> reasonable to assume that a retail disk installs all possible
> software while machine specific disks are more optimized.
> 
> Thank you misterbleepy and Steven, that is good to know.
> 
> 
> Tina
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Re: Screen resolution on TV

[Steven]

First off, S-Video or Composite Video (RCA) can only handle analog TV 
resolutions. If you think you are having a hard time working at 1024x768, try 
to imagine being limited to 640x480, and interlaced at that. To get higher 
resolutions, try to figure out a way to hook it up via DVI or HDMI.

I don't know anything about that particular TV or graphics card, but at 65" I 
would assume that the television in question is a "Full HD" 1080p model. In 
that case you should be able to run it at 1920x1080, the same resolution as the 
the current 21.5" iMac and very readable with a nice big work area, assuming 
the graphics card can handle resolutions that high. Also, whatever the 
resolution of the television, I would recommend using the native resolution 
(1920x1080 for 1080p, 1280x720 for 720p, and in between for other TVs. In 
general, just the highest resolution available) because then the television 
won't need to resize the pixels and it will produce the sharpest image, solving 
your blurry screen problem.

Steven

 
On Nov 26, 2010, at 7:33 PM, Mystic Prowler wrote:

> I recently bought a 65" Plasma screen TV for my power mac G4 sawtooth. I am 
> thinking about getting one of those DVI to S-video/TV input adapters that 
> Apple has for my computer to achieve better screen resolution. Currently, the 
> screen is a little blurry with a 1024x768 resolution. Is it possible to boost 
> that to maybe... 1600x1200 and get the fonts more readable? Also, I have am 
> ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB AGP card in my Sawtooth that came from a PC but was 
> flashed. Will the adapter work and can I get my better screen resolutions?
> 
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iMac5,1 Fan issue

[Jason Mayfield-Lewis]

I've just joined this group as a long term subscriber to the G3-5
list, since I've got an issue with a Late 2006 20" iMac (iMac5,1)
which I've been tearing my hair out over for the past few days and I
thought I'd throw it to the hive mind after trying every form of
disassembly, reassembly, re-thermal-pasting and thermal sensor re-
attachment you can imagine...

The machine works fine, but all three fans have gone insane and run at
(nearly, but not quite) full speed - around 3800 RPM. All the thermal
sensors are giving good, within range readings according to iStat. The
last step I tried was AHT, after finding and downloading the correct
(3A111) version, which gives me a '4SNS/1/4000:VGOC' error. I know
4SNS is a sensor error, but I've no idea what the rest of that string
means since nobody else on the interwebs seems to have suffered a VGOC
error. Resetting the SMC gives a brief respite but within a few
minutes of bootup, they've sped back up starting with the HDD bay fan
if I follow the speeds of all three.

Now I think I've tried pretty much every avenue including the old
'take it apart and put it back together' (I even replaced the thermal
compound under all three heatsinks as it looked like a pretty sloppy
job) so it may just be a lost cause that needs a new motherboard (and
I'd question the economics of that on a 4 year old machine.) Having
said that, I thought it was worth asking in case there's anything
obvious I've missed, or anybody is able to shed more light on the code
AHT is throwing.

Another thing I was wondering is whether it's possible to force an EFI
Firmware reflash by any means - holding the power button as documented
on Apple's website results in a normal boot after a fast flash of the
sleep LED and shrill beep - I'm assuming this procedure only works if
the firmware is corrupted in the first place... Not that I really
think it'll help, but I've got to the point where I'll try anything
because its unusably noisy at the moment!

Cheers
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Re: Leopard on a 2x450 PowerMac

[Mystic Prowler]

Not necessarily though. I was able to boot from and install Mac OS X Leopard
on my G4 iMac 800 using my Macbook Pro system install disk version 10.5.2.
It had both the PowerPC Code and the Intel code even though it was
specifically designed for the intel machine. I am not lying, go check it out
for yourself.

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Tina K.  wrote:

> On 2010/11/30 11:38, Steven so eloquently wrote:
>
>> That sounds right. If you'll remember, when Snow Leopard came out one
>> of the biggest improvements was gigabytes of hard drive space freed
>> up, since there was no more doubled PowerPC code. I think it is
>> reasonable to assume that a retail disk installs all possible
>> software while machine specific disks are more optimized.
>>
>
> Thank you misterbleepy and Steven, that is good to know.
>
>
> Tina
>
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> 10.5.8
>
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> Leopard 10.5.8
>
>

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Re: Leopard on a 2x450 PowerMac

[Mystic Prowler]

I have successfully installed leopard From my mbp before to a emac, so
doing it between two different architectures shouldn't be a problem.

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Re: Leopard on a 2x450 PowerMac

[Matt Rhinesmith]

On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 11:34 +, misterbleepy wrote:
> Here's the procedure:

That's the old way. Now there's LeopardAssist:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/leopardassist/
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Re: Leopard on a 2x450 PowerMac

[Mystic Prowler]

Either you can use Leopardassist, which gets you a 933 MHz processor
temporarily, or you can use my technique, but I have to find this first. The
technique is manual and has to be done through OF. Also, this one (as I have
tested) has a limit of 9.99GHz speed... but I can give you the code to use.
I just have to find it first. I have had Leopard on my G4 1x400 sawtooth for
about a year with maxed specs and it runs fine, so I am very sure your
machine can handle leopard.

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Re: Leopard on a 2x450 PowerMac

[Mike Linnett]

Load it up with RAM first! I used leopard assist on mine, works like a charm. 
(one of) the alternative methods would be to transfer the HD into a supported 
mac, or use FireWire target disk mode

On 30 Nov 2010, at 08:09, Dave  wrote:

> Could someone kindly remind me how to fool the OS into installing on the 
> above machine?
> Maybe I'd be better advised just leaving Tiger on, but... the call of the 
> wild... I can't resist.
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New i7 iMac microphone input low

[Santa]

G'day

I have a new i7 iMac, and have struggled with a very low mic input
level for several hours. I've turned the System Preferences/Sound/
Input level up, but even shouting will not drive the blue bars past
half way.

Any one else have this problem? Any suggestions please?

Regards

Santa

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Screen resolution on TV

[Mystic Prowler]

I recently bought a 65" Plasma screen TV for my power mac G4 sawtooth. I am
thinking about getting one of those DVI to S-video/TV input adapters that
Apple has for my computer to achieve better screen resolution. Currently,
the screen is a little blurry with a 1024x768 resolution. Is it possible to
boost that to maybe... 1600x1200 and get the fonts more readable? Also, I
have am ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB AGP card in my Sawtooth that came from a
PC but was flashed. Will the adapter work and can I get my better screen
resolutions?

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Re: Moving an eMac from 10.2.8 to 10.4.11

[Tina K.]

On 2010/12/01 15:22, Joshua Juran so eloquently wrote:

On Nov 11, 2010, at 8:16 AM, Tina K. wrote:


On 2010/11/10 18:42, Mystic Prowler so eloquently wrote:

Tiger is a little dated, are you SURE you want to stick with tiger?


If Apple still provided security updates to Tiger I'd go back in a
heartbeat.

But they don't.


And soon enough they'll drop support for Leopard as well.  What then?


That's when I will go back to Tiger! ;-)

No I'll stick with Leo because it should be more secure than Tiger 
having been supported more recently. It's not like we are going to have 
much of a choice…


Tina

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Re: Moving an eMac from 10.2.8 to 10.4.11

[Joshua Juran]

On Nov 11, 2010, at 8:16 AM, Tina K. wrote:


On 2010/11/10 18:42, Mystic Prowler so eloquently wrote:

Tiger is a little dated, are you SURE you want to stick with tiger?


If Apple still provided security updates to Tiger I'd go back in a  
heartbeat.


But they don't.


And soon enough they'll drop support for Leopard as well.  What then?

Josh


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Re: Digest for imaclist@googlegroups.com - 6 Messages in 1 Topic

[Patrick Berg]

I have installed Leopard 10.5 on an older G4 iMac.  It was quite slow.  I
would recommend sticking with Tiger 10.4.

Best of Luck.
-
Patrick Berg



   Dave  Nov 30 03:09AM -0500
^

   Could someone kindly remind me how to fool the OS into installing on the
   above machine?
   Maybe I'd be better advised just leaving Tiger on, but... the call of the
   wild... I can't resist.

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