Re: G5 iMac

2009-07-21 Thread Charles Lenington
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. If it was in Oklahoma I would be camping outside her door. My kid's G5 iMac has the capacitor

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

2009-07-21 Thread Charles Lenington
amoriellja...@att.net wrote: Hello, My dual G5 won't boot now. Here's a synopsis of the problems: 1. usually hangs up at the white screen with the gray logo 2. sometimes hangs up there and then shuts down on its own 3. the tech had it working for 4 hours this morning then it stopped

Re: G5 iMac

2009-07-21 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jul 21, 2009, at 3:18 AM, Charles Lenington wrote: We need a replacement until I get the nerve to try replacing them. Did you see these repair kits: http://www.badcaps.net/pages.php?vid=21 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are

Re: Ethernet headaches

2009-07-21 Thread Chris Ferne
Thanks to everyone who responded but I'm getting nowhere fast... On 19 Jul 2009, at 10:32am, Bruce Johnson wrote: Is the G3 depending on AppleTalk to see the printers? If so, this could be the problem, 10.5 doesn't support appletalk and newer printers do not, either. Yes - the G4 is on

Re: another Leopard Mail.app issues

2009-07-21 Thread nestami...@gmail.com
Linda wrote: I've also run into a weird mail app problem. I used to be able to select a couple of photos in iphoto and send them to mail now I get this message: Can't get paragraph 8 content of outgoing message ID 163013328. Invalid index. what the heck does that mean? I hate to

Re: Ethernet headaches

2009-07-21 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jul 21, 2009, at 6:37 AM, Chris Ferne wrote: Start with the basics. Find out the IP address of the DeskJet. (A self test should print out the JetDirect settings) and see if you can ping it from the G3. If so you know you can 'see' the printer, network- wise; that eliminates

Archiving difficulty

2009-07-21 Thread Cliff Rediger
I tried walking my intimate through the archiving process. That is, highlight a folder containing jpgs and FileArchive. Both on her machine (iBook G4) and my Mini (G4) both 10.4.11 an empty, un-named Archive.zip file is created rather than a FolderName.zip file. Selecting a small number of the

Re: Archiving difficulty

2009-07-21 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jul 21, 2009, at 8:00 AM, Cliff Rediger wrote: I tried walking my intimate through the archiving process. That is, highlight a folder containing jpgs and FileArchive. Both on her machine (iBook G4) and my Mini (G4) both 10.4.11 an empty, un-named Archive.zip file is created rather than

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

2009-07-21 Thread amorielljason
When your capacitors were bulged, did you repair or replace the machines? I called the tech. He stated that he had also seen G5 with problem capacitors, but a replacement logic board was needed to fix that, which was a $700 repair so it wasn't worth repairing the machine. Which leads to the

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

2009-07-21 Thread Charles Lenington
amoriellja...@att.net wrote: When your capacitors were bulged, did you repair or replace the machines? I called the tech. He stated that he had also seen G5 with problem capacitors, but a replacement logic board was needed to fix that, which was a $700 repair so it wasn't worth repairing

Re: another Leopard Mail.app issues

2009-07-21 Thread graphicsone
nestami...@gmail.com nestami...@gmail.com wrote: = Linda wrote: I've also run into a weird mail app problem. I used to be able to select a couple of photos in iphoto and send them to mail now I get this message: Can't get paragraph 8 content of outgoing message ID

Re: another Leopard Mail.app issues

2009-07-21 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jul 21, 2009, at 9:40 AM, graphics...@columbus.rr.com graphics...@columbus.rr.com wrote: What do you mean by link to? Of course you can send your pictures using T-bird by attaching them. Please try T-bird. When in iPhoto you can select 'email' and it opens an email window in

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

2009-07-21 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jul 21, 2009, at 9:34 AM, Charles Lenington wrote: Since we r short funds for another board, it's me and my limited solder skills/shakey/hands and guts. I don't want to ruin board. I may look thru my collection of junk and pull caps off a board i don't care about and put them back