Re: G4 blue chip question

2005-11-08 Thread Tom Peterson
Tech support from powerlogix states that the accellerator can only be flashed once. and that they no longer offer the product. On Nov 6, 2005, at 12:18 PM, Tom and Lisa P wrote: Hello. I wander about in LEM with a wallstreet I and a blue chip powerlogix g4 upgrade. I have only 2 meg video ram.

G4 blue chip question

2005-11-06 Thread Tom Peterson
Hello. I wander about in LEM with a wallstreet I and a blue chip powerlogix g4 upgrade. I have only 2 meg video ram. I obtain wallstreet II bottom and a wallstreet II processor. I load os 9.2.1 on the hard drive (spare that has no os on it) and with the wallstreet II processor it boots up and a

Re: Firewire card for wallstreet

2005-06-19 Thread Tom Peterson
OS 9.2.2 on my wallstreet G4 saw an Orinoco Gold card 802.11b as airport. OSX needed Xpostfacto to see the card. On the G side of things. OSx 10.3.9 sees buffalo g card as airport, but OS9.2.2 sees no airport card. That's my story and I'm sticking to it! -Original Message- From: G-Books [

Re: Another Opinion wanted

2005-05-27 Thread Tom Peterson
There is no 800x600 option for the LCD monitor. I have not tried to pretend it has a crt monitor. There are several different color profiles which disappear when the check box specifying show for only this monitor is selected. What about at 800x600? Don't you get a millions option? -- Nick ht

Re: Another Opinion wanted

2005-05-26 Thread Tom Peterson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Marshall Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 7:55 AM To: G-Books Subject: Re: Another Opinion wanted On Wed, 25 May 2005, Tom Peterson wrote: > > > 1024x780>thousands. I don't have the "option

Re: Another Opinion wanted

2005-05-25 Thread Tom Peterson
Nick Marshall wrote: On Tue, 24 May 2005, Tom Peterson wrote: Nick Marshall wrote: On Mon, 23 May 2005, Tom and Lisa P wrote: What would be better for running OS X on a Wallstreet (yes, I know a WS isnt an optimal solution); a G3/500 or a G4/400 ? Unless the

Re: Another Opinion wanted

2005-05-24 Thread Tom Peterson
Nick Marshall wrote: On Mon, 23 May 2005, Tom and Lisa P wrote: What would be better for running OS X on a Wallstreet (yes, I know a WS isnt an optimal solution); a G3/500 or a G4/400 ? Unless the apps you are going to use have been optimized by Altivec, iTunes for instance, go with

Re: cdr

2005-05-17 Thread Tom Peterson
RW+ perhaps? I think our old macs are of the RW- generation. Robert Williams wrote: I have a Wall Street running OS 9.2. When I try to burn a disk using the Apple Disk Burning software I get a messege that this disk is unreadable and it ask me ti initialize it. It only gives me the option of a Pro

Re: Installing 10.3 on a WS

2005-04-30 Thread Tom Peterson
Mikael Byström wrote: Tom Peterson said: Turn off L2 cache, this is in the readme Actually, I think this is not necessary anymore and at the very least one doesn't have to keep the L2 cache turned off in ordet to run 10.3 on a wallstreet. Many cited problems in the XPF documentatio

Re: Installing 10.3 on a WS

2005-04-28 Thread Tom Peterson
Hector I. Macedo wrote: A few days ago y read that one of the listers was using 10.3 on a WS. I have a few questions on how to install it: First, is it necessary to install 10.2 first ? Second, to install Ipso Facto do I do that from os9 or how do I proceed before going to 10.3 Thanks Hector I.

Re: help me diagnose The Satanic Lombard please

2005-02-09 Thread Tom Peterson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of The Real Seed Catalogue Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2005 1:08 PM To: G-Books Subject: help me diagnose The Satanic Lombard please Hi All, some may have heard this story from other lists but now, after having used &

Re: Wall Street Refurb

2005-02-05 Thread Tom Peterson
Wow, I have a similar situation, Wallstreet RIP, It began as a 12inch passive display 233 no cache bad PMU, so so battery. Replaced PMU, got it to boot reliably. Went to Ebay and optained 14 inch display assembly and installed. Went to Ebay and obtained blue chip g4 500 mhz replacement processor.

Re: WallstreetI RIP

2005-01-22 Thread Tom Peterson
to him because I had purchased the logic board earlier. I paid about $95 for the card about 1-1/2 years ago. That should solve your problems! Good luck, Shawn On Jan 22, 2005, at 9:35 PM, Tom Peterson wrote: Shawn, Of all the responses to my problem, yours is posibly closest to the mark. I don'

WallstreetI RIP

2005-01-19 Thread Tom Peterson
The wallstreet with 512 megs ram, Blue Chip G4, 500mhz has stopped booting. I cannot boot into OS9. I get error box with no info after the first Icon mounts the desktop. I get the same box with error message Bus Error or Illegal Instruction when booting from CD. Bing a wall street it cannot boot

Re: Dead Wallstreet

2004-11-25 Thread Tom Peterson
L PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clark Martin Sent: Wednesday, November 24, 2004 5:28 PM To: G-Books Subject: Re: Dead Wallstreet At 4:18 PM -0700 11/24/04, Bob wrote: >The National Enquirer reports at 4:30 PM -0800 11/23/04, Tom Peterson wrote: I have a Wallstreet with a 40Gb IBM/Hitachi drive install

Re: Dead Wallstreet

2004-11-23 Thread Tom Peterson
With all due sympathy, My wallstreet does not like to wake from sleep. It does however reboot to OS9 when this happens. I have replaced the hard drive on my poor beast and that has caused me to recommend the following voodoo trick. Take a metal object ( I have used pocket knives, watches, tiny

Re: OT: Siemens M65 phone & MacOSX

2004-11-08 Thread Tom Peterson
Sose OS X support IRDA? It does not show up in profiler, nor does old world SCSI. Thanks. -Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Philip Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 6:56 PM To: G-Books Subject: Re: OT: Siemens M65 phone & MacOSX On Friday, Nov 5,

Re: FireFox

2004-11-04 Thread Tom Peterson
AM -0400 10/3/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >On 11/3/04 11:21 PM, "Tom Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Has anyone gotten this browser to launch on their machines? I have > > tried the betas and the release candidates, The Browser on the PC works >

FireFox

2004-11-03 Thread Tom Peterson
Has anyone gotten this browser to launch on their machines? I have tried the betas and the release candidates, The Browser on the PC works like a champ, but the application will not even launch on the OS X 10.3 machines here. Just seeking a data point. -- G-Books is sponsored by

Re: Mainstreet

2004-10-21 Thread Tom Peterson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Laurent Daudelin Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 9:46 AM To: G-Books Subject: Re: Mainstreet On 21/10/04 12:36, "Scott Birdwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been a Mac guy for almost twenty years now, but I'm

Re: My wallstreet and its booting

2004-09-25 Thread Tom Peterson
Is there any chance that this is the pause when the memory is being checked? OS 9 had an issue with long boot times that could be solved with the memory control panel. Command and some other key would add a 4th radio button to the memory control panel that would skip the memory check on boot up. Th

Re: extreme prices for non-extreme Airport cards....

2004-09-07 Thread Tom Peterson
Hmm, I am hopping to move a bondi blue iMac out onto the Wireless range of my home. Yes, I have Ethernet now, And I know the slot loader iMacs have both airport and ethernet, so I am still monitoring this thread vewwwy clowwwsly. On Sep 6, 2004, at 8:43 PM, Clyde Kahrl wrote: Tom Wrote: Way o

Re: iTunes and Wall Street and OS 9.1?

2004-09-06 Thread Tom Peterson
version 1.3 of iTunes runs on OS 91 and 2. You may find it in the apple archives. - Original Message - From: "Gary Goldberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "G-Books" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 06, 2004 2:46 PM Subject: iTunes and Wall Street and OS 9.1? Per the Apple iTunes we

Re: extreme prices for non-extreme Airport cards....

2004-09-05 Thread Tom Peterson
Way off topic, anyone use USB wireless dongles with OSX? I have a linksys USB that works ok on the PC, is identified in the profiler on OSX, but does not appear in the Network panel. Is this a dead end? Thanks. On Sep 4, 2004, at 8:58 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The WirelessDriver from sourc

Re: Wallstrett PB: 14-inch display in 13-inch PB?

2004-08-25 Thread Tom Peterson
Yes, It can and has been done successfully by myself. -Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nils Mueller-Scheessel Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 11:25 AM To: G-Books Subject: Wallstrett PB: 14-inch display in 13-inch PB? Hi all, the 13.3-display of my

Re: USB question

2004-07-16 Thread Tom Peterson
My wallstreet doesn't have usb:) I had to purchase a USB2 card for the PCMCIA slots. It works with USB1.1 just fine thanks, and as I have no USB2 stuff, I cannot say for certain that it is really USB2. On Jul 16, 2004, at 7:01 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On a recent trip to my local Micro C

Re: PowerBook Wallstreet Broken Glass Sound @ Startup

2004-06-11 Thread Tom Peterson
I have a wallstreet processor card if you want to try them. 233 no cache. On Jun 11, 2004, at 5:53 AM, Christopher Kolp wrote: Mikael, Bruce, Ken, Laurent, Thank you all for your responses! I'm looking around for a Processor & Logic Board replacement as we speak since replacing the RAM seemed to

Re: ??? Wallstreet battery replacement cells ???

2004-06-05 Thread Tom Peterson
Lucky you. I have nearly broken off my fingers trying to get a Wallstreet I to boot into open firmware. I am convinced it will not happen. On Jun 5, 2004, at 4:18 AM, Susan Platter wrote: When I tried this on my Wallstreet, which is showing exactly the same symptoms as described in Macintouch,

Re: Wegener Media WS processor upgrades

2004-06-05 Thread Tom Peterson
I am Running a wallstreet I (2meg video) with panther (The Rumple helper was used successfully) using a Blue Chip Wallstreet G4 upgrade card. It works pretty well. Jaguar supported 24 bit video, Panther has issues with same resolution, so i am best off running in 8 bit color under panther. I ha

Re: Cooling Metalplate for Powerlogix 500 mhz?

2003-12-23 Thread Tom Peterson
want an original one? Email me an address, it is not very big or heavy. On Monday, December 22, 2003, at 10:42 PM, Mikael Byström wrote: I need suggestions on what material and thickness the cooling metalplate that is supposed to be on top of the 500 mhz G3 Powerlogiz Blue chip for the Powerbook

Re: Icebook--was Hey Kyle...

2003-12-20 Thread Tom Peterson
at 16 months, getting it back up and running for only $300 was a very pleasant alternative to wailing in the dark. I was stunned by the 4 day turnaround from an apple store. That store offers some really great service. Satisfied in Seattle. On Saturday, December 13, 2003, at 02:13 AM, Andrew Mai

Re: iBook Dual USB Dark Screen

2003-12-11 Thread Tom Peterson
I now have the iBook in hand. I have reset the PMU, allegedly, because I am only working with Bongs and cap lock lites to indicate there is life on this unit. No screen activity at all. Prior shop connected to external monitor, no signal there. Q: Is there a replaceable PMU on this dual USB G3 iB

Re: iBook Dual USB Dark Screen

2003-12-04 Thread Tom Peterson
Have taken the book to a repair shop in Bethesda MD. They are able to strart it up, but as soon as a finger touches the chasis, it shuts down. Shop thinks it may require a motherboard-extomy. They are mailing the carcus back to me and I will try the Power Manager Reset for the iBook Dual USB. T

iBook Dual USB Dark Screen

2003-11-30 Thread Tom Peterson
My daughter is calling from across the country with an iBook that this morning would not boot with the end of life battery (we are awaiting a new battery from MacMall). So over the phone we were able to get it to boot without the battery. She goes to the store and comes back to a Locked up scre

Video questions Wall Street

2003-11-18 Thread Tom Peterson
I have been nursing a cast off Wall Street 12 inch passive display 233 MHz no cache. I have found that this model has 2 Megs of vram. I have acquired lots of goodies for this book, including a 14 inch display that works with the 2-Meg video motherboard. I have then acquired a pair of logic boards w

Re: Lombard won't boot up

2003-11-16 Thread Tom Peterson
Hello. SCSI Question. Does anyone have any Powerbook G3 scsi devices recognized in OS 10.2.8? I have thought that the particular MESH to the scsi on the wallstreet and Lombard were not recognized by OSX. Am I overlooking something useful hear? TIA -Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[

Re: Pismo Wake from Sleep Problems

2003-10-28 Thread Tom Peterson
On Tuesday, October 28, 2003, at 03:58 PM, Eric Morrison wrote: Hi: We have two (of our six) Pismos (9.2.2) recently exhibiting a problem waking from sleep. Basically, whenever they go to sleep they won't wake up. The green sleep light goes on when they go into sleep, and when you press a keyb

Re: Dead Pismo

2003-10-20 Thread Tom Peterson
Have you installed a fresh Pram battery? Give it a try. -Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Ellis Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 9:24 AM To: G-Books Subject: Re: Dead Pismo - Original Message - From: "Laurent Daudelin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To

Re: OS 7.5 with updates thru 7.55

2003-10-20 Thread Tom Peterson
I would love to have them. Don't know what to think of SASE, though. -Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Victor Levine Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 10:06 PM To: G-Books Subject: OS 7.5 with updates thru 7.55 If anyone's interested, I'd be happy to s

Re: Removing Previous System Files

2003-10-06 Thread Tom Peterson
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106290 -Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Peterson Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 8:57 PM To: G-Books Subject: Re: Removing Previous System Files Good luck. Unless you have enabled root access in

Re: Removing Previous System Files

2003-10-06 Thread Tom Peterson
Good luck. Unless you have enabled root access in netinfo, your admin password will not work using su- . Go to netinfo in the volume/applications/utilities. There is a menu item for enabling root access. It involves putting a password on the root login. Then su- will become very dangerous.

Re: Wallstreet wireless

2003-09-13 Thread Tom Peterson
my experience was to get a Lucent Technology Card (802.11b) with the word ORINCoCo on it. Under OS9 there is a driver from Orinoco for the card. I chose to go the the great folks at IOExperts for the OSX driver. Both work like a champ on this hot rod wallstreet. On Friday, September 12, 2003, a

Re: DVD in OS X on a Lombard (How-To)

2003-08-24 Thread Tom Peterson
-Original Message- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Thayer Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 6:31 PM To: G-Books Subject: Re: DVD in OS X on a Lombard (How-To) "Hmm, I also forgot to mention that the instructions should also work on G4 upgraded Wallstreet machines

Re: Wallstreet Ram Upgrade

2003-08-05 Thread Tom Peterson
I must be special. I have a wallstreet with Powerlogic 500 mhz G4 and have 512 meg ram, 256 top 256 bottom. I did order the wrong sodimm which registered at half the advertised capacity. I had ordered the ram for the Pizmo by mistake. The vendor corrected my mistake and the correct SOdimm is workin