Re: Please help! Problems with an Hp d135 All-in-One

2005-01-17 Thread Luis Sequeira
> I also heard that for some reason, Fast User Switching causes problems with the Hp software. . .true? Not in my (limited) experience. G4/500 1GB RAM 10.3.7 using an HP 5850 Deskjet. Bought the HP *specifically* because my Epson wasn't playing nice with Jag. I have 4 users printing without incid

Re: Please help! Problems with an Hp d135 All-in-One

2005-01-14 Thread Frank P. Eigler
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, Zoltan Batiz wrote: > I also heard that for some reason, Fast User Switching causes problems > with the Hp software. . .true? Not in my (limited) experience. G4/500 1GB RAM 10.3.7 using an HP 5850 Deskjet. Bought the HP *specifically* because my Epson wasn't playing nice with

Please help! Problems with an Hp d135 All-in-One

2005-01-14 Thread Zoltan Batiz
ation. Hp ehelp just wants me to go out and buy print heads and finance more ink carts. . .trying to say the printer won't communicate with a Mac if there's no ink. (scam?) Anyway, anyone out there with this printer PLEASE HELP. My grandma won't leave me alone! She spent $400.0

Re: Pismo sucess! (was Pismo disaster - please help!)

2004-11-17 Thread David Thrower
many thanks to Laurent, Nancy, Kyle, and Pauline for their help in diagnosing my (daughter's Christmas present) unresponsive Pismo 500mhz! it was the RAM, as was suggested by you fine people, though i wasn't sure if i had damaged the chip, or the slot. since my son has a Pismo 400mhz (his Christm

Re: Pismo disaster - please help!

2004-11-09 Thread Pauline Turtle-Bear Guillermo
Pressing down hard on the processor to reseat it with the upper RAM chip installed is not good for the RAM chip or the slot that holds the RAM, so I hope that was not happening. Also, in every hard drive replacement guide I have seen for the Pismo, the processor must be removed to access the ha

Re: Pismo disaster - please help!

2004-11-08 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 08/11/04 09:47, "David Thrower" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/7/04 9:12 PM, "David Thrower" Spew into the > Cybertrough: > >>> >>> One beep and no start in a Pismo means that the RAM >>> is bad or unseated. >>> Reseat the RAM and tell me what happens. >>> >>> Kyle H. Hansen >> >> >> h

Re: Pismo disaster - please help!

2004-11-08 Thread David Thrower
On 11/7/04 9:12 PM, "David Thrower" Spew into the Cybertrough: >> >> One beep and no start in a Pismo means that the RAM >> is bad or unseated. >> Reseat the RAM and tell me what happens. >> >> Kyle H. Hansen > > > hi - thanks Kyle, i tried reseating it again, with the > same result... bad RA

Re: Pismo disaster - please help!

2004-11-08 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 11/7/04 9:12 PM, "David Thrower" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spew into the Cybertrough: >> >> One beep and no start in a Pismo means that the RAM >> is bad or unseated. >> Reseat the RAM and tell me what happens. >> >> Kyle H. Hansen > > > hi - thanks Kyle, i tried reseating it again, with the > sa

Re: Pismo disaster - please help!

2004-11-07 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 08/11/04 00:12, David Thrower at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> One beep and no start in a Pismo means that the RAM >> is bad or unseated. >> Reseat the RAM and tell me what happens. >> >> Kyle H. Hansen > > > hi - thanks Kyle, i tried reseating it again, with the > same result... bad RAM the s

Re: Pismo disaster - please help!

2004-11-07 Thread David Thrower
> > One beep and no start in a Pismo means that the RAM > is bad or unseated. > Reseat the RAM and tell me what happens. > > Kyle H. Hansen hi - thanks Kyle, i tried reseating it again, with the same result... bad RAM the sole culprit, or could it also be the processor? best regards, David __

Re: Pismo disaster - please help!

2004-11-07 Thread Kyle Hansen
On 11/7/04 6:07 PM, "David Thrower" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Spew into the Cybertrough: > hello all, i'm putting together a Pismo for my > daughter's Christmas present as i did for her older > brother last year. as before, i decided to add a new > 5400 rpm Toshiba drive, making sure of course that is

Re: Pismo disaster - please help!

2004-11-07 Thread David Thrower
> Well, David, after all the tests you performed and > the verifications you > did, it really looks like the daughtercard is > toasted, or the processor > itself. Although, when the daughtercard is not > seated properly, what you > usually get is no chime, nothing, except the caps > lock key and t

Re: Pismo disaster - please help!

2004-11-07 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 07/11/04 21:17, Nancy Lawrence at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm sure someone else will mention this, and I know you already tried > it, but are you sure that you've re-seated the processor card firmly? > When I upgraded the ram in my Pismo I didn't press hard enough the > first time and I got

Re: Pismo disaster - please help!

2004-11-07 Thread David Thrower
--- Nancy Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm sure someone else will mention this, and I know hi - thanks very much for your suggestion, but i really pressed that sucker hard. i downloaded a take-apart guide for the Pismo, where i believe it was mentioned that you have to do this. yeah, i

Re: Pismo disaster - please help!

2004-11-07 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 07/11/04 21:07, David Thrower at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip!] > ... each time, single note chime and black screen. my > thinking is that i must have damaged the processor > daughterboard when i pulled on it's tab accidentally > with the heat tube assembly still screwed down, but i > don't w

Re: Pismo disaster - please help!

2004-11-07 Thread Nancy Lawrence
I'm sure someone else will mention this, and I know you already tried it, but are you sure that you've re-seated the processor card firmly? When I upgraded the ram in my Pismo I didn't press hard enough the first time and I got nothing upon booting up. I did some checking online and found tha

Pismo disaster - please help!

2004-11-07 Thread David Thrower
hello all, i'm putting together a Pismo for my daughter's Christmas present as i did for her older brother last year. as before, i decided to add a new 5400 rpm Toshiba drive, making sure of course that is is ATA-5 compliant as per Other World Computer's item description. so... i installed it, w

Re: PLEASE HELP!

2003-06-30 Thread Tim Hodgson
On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 3:31 pm -0500, Byron Gardner wrote: >All right, Jay here's one for you to ponder. I am trying to install OS X >10.2 on my WallStreet. The installation gets 2/3 of the way through and then >the screen either goes dark or becomes light with no other image or has >multicolored

FW: PLEASE HELP!

2003-06-29 Thread Byron Gardner
This wasn't just for Jay--can anyone help me? Byron > > All right, Jay here's one for you to ponder. I am trying to install OS X > 10.2 on my WallStreet. The installation gets 2/3 of the way through and then > the screen either goes dark or becomes light with no other image or has > multicolored

PLEASE HELP!

2003-06-29 Thread Byron Gardner
All right, Jay here's one for you to ponder. I am trying to install OS X 10.2 on my WallStreet. The installation gets 2/3 of the way through and then the screen either goes dark or becomes light with no other image or has multicolored lines running down the middle and I am forced to restart with th

Re: Bronze Powerbook won't charge Battery. Please Help.

2003-06-15 Thread John Beringer
Robert, Thank you immensely ! Your tip was right on the money, My wife happily reports that the bronze PB is now, once again, charging the battery! Thanks also to the other suggestions offered (however, I remain dubious about the solution that required "bouncing the PB off the side of a dumpster a

Re: Bronze Powerbook won't charge Battery. Please Help.

2003-06-14 Thread Kurt Appling
RE; I remember awhile back someone bouned theirs off the side of a dumpster and it started working again,dont know if it was the shock or the threat lol On Saturday, June 14, 2003, at 02:15 PM, John Beringer wrote: Well, I wish it were that responsive. I've tried that to no avail. The lapto

Re: Bronze Powerbook won't charge Battery. Please Help.

2003-06-14 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 14/06/03 13:50, John Beringer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My wife has encountered the this troubling phenomenon this last week - her > powerbook refuses to charge her battery any longer. She can still use the G3 > 333 MHz when plugged in to a wall socket, but it will power down immediately >

Re: Bronze Powerbook won't charge Battery. Please Help.

2003-06-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On apple's web site there is a battery reset utility. worked for mine. do a search in the downloads section for Bronze and Battery and you should be able to find it. It's an OS9 app that doesn't work with classic On Saturday, June 14, 2003, at 02:15 PM, John Beringer wrote: Well, I wish it we

Re: Bronze Powerbook won't charge Battery. Please Help.

2003-06-14 Thread John Beringer
Well, I wish it were that responsive. I've tried that to no avail. The laptop is seeing the battery, because it gives me an "exed out" icon if I remove it. I will not however, take any charge!! Any other suggestions? JB On 6/14/03 11:02 AM, "Brian Deuel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reseat the

Re: Bronze Powerbook won't charge Battery. Please Help.

2003-06-14 Thread Brian Deuel
Reseat the battery. Pop it out and push it back in. I had the same problem and this fixed it. Brian *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 6/14/2003 at 10:50 AM John Beringer wrote: >My wife has encountered the this troubling phenomenon this last week - >her >powerbook refuses to charge h

Bronze Powerbook won't charge Battery. Please Help.

2003-06-14 Thread John Beringer
My wife has encountered the this troubling phenomenon this last week - her powerbook refuses to charge her battery any longer. She can still use the G3 333 MHz when plugged in to a wall socket, but it will power down immediately when this energy source is removed. After looking at the Apple Knownl

Re: System Preferences failing?? PLEASE HELP

2003-06-05 Thread doce
On Wednesday, June 4, 2003, at 01:10 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am haveing some problems with my system preferences. When I go to the network prefs, it takes a while then an entirely different screen pops up, the only adapter available is a PCI and built in ethernet. My Energy Saver pref

Re: System Preferences failing?? PLEASE HELP

2003-06-04 Thread Laurent Daudelin
on 04/06/03 02:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am haveing some problems with my system preferences. When I go to the > network prefs, it takes a while then an entirely different screen pops up, the > only adapter available is a PCI and built in ethernet. My Energy Saver

System Preferences failing?? PLEASE HELP

2003-06-04 Thread Sk8rdi16
I am haveing some problems with my system preferences. When I go to the network prefs, it takes a while then an entirely different screen pops up, the only adapter available is a PCI and built in ethernet. My Energy Saver prefs also are messed up, it says my battery is 0 percent charged all t

Re: ARGH! Please help me.... sob sob

2002-10-09 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 09/10/02 04:11, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey there, > > I think its fair to say that I went into this process of installing mac > os X, which I've had nothing but problems with in the past, in a positive > mind set. But after installing it on my laptop, I have offici

Re: ARGH! Please help me.... sob sob

2002-10-09 Thread Jim Eddy
Some of the early Bronze "Lombard" machines had a faulty processor or processor card that causes freezing under OSX with certain RAM configurations. This has been often discussed here and elsewhere. Try a search on MacFixit or MacInTouch message boards. I have heard that Apple will still r

Re: ARGH! Please help me.... sob sob

2002-10-09 Thread Kevin Stevens
On Wednesday, Oct 9, 2002, at 01:11 US/Pacific, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > mind set. But after installing it on my laptop, I have officially lost > faith > in Apple's ability to make a functional operating system (its just > gone down > hill from os 8...) This is my last hope- that you guys ca

ARGH! Please help me.... sob sob

2002-10-09 Thread PirateDyl
Hey there, I think its fair to say that I went into this process of installing mac os X, which I've had nothing but problems with in the past, in a positive mind set. But after installing it on my laptop, I have officially lost faith in Apple's ability to make a functional operating system

Re: Please Help my Wallstreet!!

2002-09-21 Thread Jeff Hubatka
If you go the USB or FireWire route, remember that the Wallstreet won't power a device through the PCMCIA card. Not a big deal, you just have to remember to pick up a power adapter for whatever external device you use. Considering that SCSI seems like it will be harder to find for future Apple

Re: Please Help my Wallstreet!!

2002-09-21 Thread Remy Davison
>After installing x.1 on my wallstreet (300mhz 8/192) the installer >restarted my computer after counting down 30 seconds, it booted up into my >other OS (9.1) on another partition and I went to the startup disk control >panel and selected my partition w/ X to boot on. The booting of X failed

Re: Please Help my Wallstreet!!

2002-09-20 Thread David Pekarsky
No to respond to my first e-mail about my temporarily broken wallstreet, I fixed it by running the X installer quitting it, and before it restarts hitting the eject button for the cd drive repetitively so that the X cd would eject all the while holding down on option booting it into my selecte

Re: Please Help my Wallstreet!!

2002-09-20 Thread Walter R Basil
On Friday, September 20, 2002, at 05:25 PM, David Pekarsky wrote: > What can I do? > Hopefully this won't involve wiping the hard drive... > All help is greatly appreciated > Thanks > ..that all sounds nasty!! Good luck! Walt -- G-Books is sponsored by and.

Please Help my Wallstreet!!

2002-09-20 Thread David Pekarsky
After installing x.1 on my wallstreet (300mhz 8/192) the installer restarted my computer after counting down 30 seconds, it booted up into my other OS (9.1) on another partition and I went to the startup disk control panel and selected my partition w/ X to boot on. The booting of X failed and