Re: G5 troubleshooring: motherboard vs. RAM vs. something else

2009-07-19 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jul 19, 2009, at 12:51 AM, Clark Martin wrote: > Pop all but one RAM stick and boot from the CD/DVD. Dual G5's use matched pairs, you can't boot with a single stick. This complicates checking RAM and slots. Also, determining which slots are "pairs" required a chart, the representation in

Re: G5 troubleshooring: motherboard vs. RAM vs. something else

2009-07-19 Thread amorielljason
The hardware test did recognize the RAM, so I'm assuming it's safe to say that the RAM is fine.> > In both the G5 and PC, once the RAM was fully recognized, I've had > zero problems. > > --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ > You received this message because you are

Re: Slow and Unusable G4 Gigabit - What Fixed It?

2009-07-19 Thread James E. Therrault
Ricardo Sevilla wrote: > James E. Therrault wrote: > >>My trusty ol' G4 400MHz Gigabit has been slowin' down and yesterday >>reached the point that it would only fully boot in "safe" mode. >> >>Did the original hardware test and everything checked out. Booted fine >>in OS9 even though I had not

Re: Slow and Unusable G4 Gigabit - What Fixed It?

2009-07-19 Thread James E. Therrault
Bill Connelly wrote: > > On Jul 18, 2009, at 6:36 PM, Ricardo Sevilla wrote: > > >>James E. Therrault wrote: >> >>>My trusty ol' G4 400MHz Gigabit has been slowin' down and yesterday >>>reached the point that it would only fully boot in "safe" mode. >>> >>>Did the original hardware test and ev

Re: Slow and Unusable G4 Gigabit - What Fixed It?

2009-07-19 Thread James E. Therrault
Ricardo Sevilla wrote: > Bill Connelly wrote: > >>On Jul 18, 2009, at 6:36 PM, Ricardo Sevilla wrote: >> >> >> >>>James E. Therrault wrote: >>> >>> My trusty ol' G4 400MHz Gigabit has been slowin' down and yesterday reached the point that it would only fully boot in "safe" mode. >>

Re: Slow and Unusable G4 Gigabit - The Answer!

2009-07-19 Thread James E. Therrault
>>>James E. Therrault wrote: >>> >>> My trusty ol' G4 400MHz Gigabit has been slowin' down and yesterday reached the point that it would only fully boot in "safe" mode. Did the original hardware test and everything checked out. Booted fine in OS9 even though I had no

large HDDs: 128 GB limit on Quicksilver 2001?

2009-07-19 Thread Mac User #330250
Hi! I would like to know if the limit of the pre-Quicksilver 2002 Power Macs is a hard limit or whether it can be managed to access beyond this barrier. I have a Quicksilver 2001, the 733 MHz model with an OWC Mercury Extreme G4 CPU Upgrade to 1,467 MHz and 1.5 GB of RAM. This doesn't look so

Re: large HDDs: 128 GB limit on Quicksilver 2001?

2009-07-19 Thread Bill Connelly
Search the G3-G5 list for "LBA48" and you'll see several good discussions. Also get the free Mactracker from: http://www.mactracker.ca/ And it will show you your G4 does have the limitation. It can be overcome with an Open Firmware update, or an IDE PCI controller card. You might also inve

Re: large HDDs: 128 GB limit on Quicksilver 2001?

2009-07-19 Thread PeterH
On Jul 19, 2009, at 10:51 AM, Mac User #330250 wrote: > I would like to know if the limit of the pre-Quicksilver 2002 Power > Macs is a > hard limit or whether it can be managed to access beyond this barrier. Officially, the pre-QS 2002 ROM DOES NOT SUPPORT LBA48. Practically, is has been po

Re: large HDDs: 128 GB limit on Quicksilver 2001?

2009-07-19 Thread Bill Connelly
On Jul 19, 2009, at 5:03 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: > > It can be overcome with an Open Firmware update, or an IDE PCI > controller card. Meant to add, I recently chose to buy a Firmtek Seritek SATA PCI card and 1TB SATA Seagate HD from OWC to solve the issue in my Digital Audio Dual 533. --~

Re: large HDDs: 128 GB limit on Quicksilver 2001?

2009-07-19 Thread PeterH
On Jul 19, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: > Meant to add, I recently chose to buy a Firmtek Seritek SATA PCI card > and 1TB SATA Seagate HD from OWC to solve the issue in my Digital > Audio Dual 533. ANY iSAT or eSATA implementation implicitly provides LBA48, as all such implementatio

Re: large HDDs: 128 GB limit on Quicksilver 2001? [SOLVED]

2009-07-19 Thread Mac User #330250
Hello PeterH! Hi everyone! On Sunday, 19th of July 2009, PeterH wrote: > Practically, is has been possible to add the required LBA48 > properties to the Open Firmware facility for quite a number of G4 > Macs, and possibly also for ALL "New World" Macs, of which the very > first was the B&W G3. >

Re: large HDDs: 128 GB limit on Quicksilver 2001? [SOLVED]

2009-07-19 Thread Clark Martin
Mac User #330250 wrote: > Hello PeterH! > Hi everyone! > > On Sunday, 19th of July 2009, PeterH wrote: >> Practically, is has been possible to add the required LBA48 >> properties to the Open Firmware facility for quite a number of G4 >> Macs, and possibly also for ALL "New World" Macs, of which

Re: large HDDs: 128 GB limit on Quicksilver 2001? [SOLVED]

2009-07-19 Thread PeterH
On Jul 19, 2009, at 2:51 PM, Mac User #330250 wrote: > Anyway, I used this script (to make things more easy): > http://4thcode.blogspot.com/2007/12/using-128-gib-or-larger-ata- > hard-drives.html > From which I quote: "Finally IOATAController::issueCommand in IOATAFamily-173.3.1/ IOATACont

Re: MDD won't shut down pwr button won't work correctly

2009-07-19 Thread Jonas Ulrich
SOLVED: Just for fun i took the stock 64mb video card out and hit the pwr button. It started up and was visible on the network! I then put in an old 16mb agp video card and it works great! Is it an incompatibility with the video card and the new mobo? the mobo it had before was newer than this one

Re: large HDDs: 128 GB limit on Quicksilver 2001?

2009-07-19 Thread Jonas Ulrich
While i do know from experience that "ata hi-cap driver" does work well, I would recommend either a firewire enclosure or a pci ata or sata card. -Jonas On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 2:37 PM, PeterH wrote: > > > On Jul 19, 2009, at 2:08 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: > > > Meant to add, I recently chose to

Solution for Not Recognizing Starcraft CD

2009-07-19 Thread m.smurph001
Hello, OWC tech support helped me out. They had me delete a folder and a file in the System folder of my System 9 boot disk. The offending folder was called multiprocessing and the file was Apple CPU Plugins. I also discovered that I was running System 9.2.1 instead of 9.2.2 which is requi

Network issue

2009-07-19 Thread sam
G4/500, tibook, OS10.4.11 Hi All- Here's what is happening: Everytime I open up network preferences on my Tibook to try and set up security settings for my router I get this dialog box which pops up and states "Your network settings have been changed by another application." I click the blue OK

Re: ethernet port gone bad - need advise on adapter, etc. Please.

2009-07-19 Thread sam
SUCCESS! The TRENDnet was/is "plug and play"! Many, Many thanks. Happily reporting to you from the ol Sawtooth, Sam On Jul 13, 10:18 pm, sam wrote: > I did some diggin around today and after reading tons of posts, > decided on the TRENDnet Gigabit PCI adapter. It supposedly works > seemlessly wi

G5 iMac

2009-07-19 Thread john
Hi, Someone locally has a G5 iMac up for sale. I think it is in its stock condition, and has hardly ever been used. They are asking $300.00, with the original discs, box, etc. I'm still in B+W world, and wonder how good a deal/computer this is. Here are the specs she sent me. She doesn't k

Re: G5 iMac

2009-07-19 Thread Chance Reecher
Not a bad price for a G5, but I you can find Intel mac Minis for about the same price, and they're about twice as powerful. On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:21 PM, john wrote: > > Hi, Someone locally has a G5 iMac up for sale.  I think it is in its > stock condition, and has hardly ever been used.  The

mdd kernel panic how to read it?

2009-07-19 Thread Jonas Ulrich
I had a kernel panic on a troublesome mdd powermac. here is the message: Unresolved kernel trap(cpu 0): 0x300 - Data access DAR=0x018C PC=0x000AC040 Latest crash info for cpu 0: Exception state (sv=0x3559FC80) PC=0x000AC040; MSR=0x1030; DAR=0x018C; DSISR=0x400

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2009-07-19 Thread s. yaz
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Re: mdd kernel panic how to read it?

2009-07-19 Thread Bill Connelly
> > > Kernel version: > Darwin Kernel Version 8.11.0: Wed Oct 10 18:26:00 PDT 2007; > root:xnu-792.24.17~1/RELEASE_PPC > Model: PowerMac3,6, BootROM 4.4.8f2, 1 processors, PowerPC G4 > (3.3), 1 GHz, 1.38 GB > Graphics: ATY,Rage128Pro, ATY,Rage128Pro, AGP, 16 MB > Memory Module: DIMM0/J21, 51

Re: mdd kernel panic how to read it?

2009-07-19 Thread Bill Connelly
On Jul 19, 2009, at 10:56 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: > > > / hardware used, then add things back one at a time. > was supposed to be "simplify hardware used, then add things back one at a time" ... something like that. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this messa

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2009-07-19 Thread s. yaz
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Re: G5 iMac

2009-07-19 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:21 PM, john wrote: > > Hi, Someone locally has a G5 iMac up for sale. I think it is in its > stock condition, and has hardly ever been used. They are asking > $300.00, with the original discs, box, etc. > I'm still in B+W world, and wonder how good a deal/computer th

Re:

2009-07-19 Thread Stephen Weber
Guys don't go there looks like it's a malware site. On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:56 PM, s. yaz wrote: > > > bitojoxa.iwebsource.com > > > > > > > --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those

Re:

2009-07-19 Thread Stephen Weber
Again, I looks at the source of the first one and it had some unneeded scripting going on. On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 11:05 PM, s. yaz wrote: > > > ropylope.freewhost.com > > > > > > > --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low En

Re: Spam on list

2009-07-19 Thread Len Gerstel
Folks, There has been an attack into Yahoo mail accounts. They are sending messages with hacked accounts to any list that that person is subscribed to. Rather than moderate all yahoo accounts, we are going to place each hacked account on moderated status unless it gets too bad. I do not k

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2009-07-19 Thread Stephen Conrad
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Re: G5 iMac

2009-07-19 Thread Jonas Ulrich
Yah. Buy it. -Jonas On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio < fluxstrin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 10:21 PM, john wrote: > >> >> Hi, Someone locally has a G5 iMac up for sale. I think it is in its >> stock condition, and has hardly ever been used.

Re: mdd kernel panic how to read it?

2009-07-19 Thread Jonas Ulrich
I took out all pci devices and all the ram except the original 2 512MB chips, ran applejack, verified disk and repaired permissions, and during software update a bunch of text appeared on the screen, and part of it says Sysytem Failure: CPU=0. Does this mean that the cpu is failing? -Jonas On Sun,

Re: mdd kernel panic how to read it?

2009-07-19 Thread Bill Connelly
On Jul 20, 2009, at 1:11 AM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: > I took out all pci devices and all the ram except the original 2 > 512MB chips, ran applejack, verified disk and repaired permissions, > and during software update a bunch of text appeared on the screen, > and part of it says Sysytem Failu

Re: mdd kernel panic how to read it?

2009-07-19 Thread Brian Christmas
On 20/07/2009, at 3:46 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: > > > On Jul 20, 2009, at 1:11 AM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: > >> I took out all pci devices and all the ram except the original 2 >> 512MB chips, ran applejack, verified disk and repaired permissions, >> and during software update a bunch of text appear

Re: mdd kernel panic how to read it?

2009-07-19 Thread Brian Christmas
On 20/07/2009, at 3:55 PM, Brian Christmas wrote: > > > On 20/07/2009, at 3:46 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: > >> >> >> On Jul 20, 2009, at 1:11 AM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: >> >>> I took out all pci devices and all the ram except the original 2 >>> 512MB chips, ran applejack, verified disk and repaired pe