Re: Ext 500 Gb USB Drive Issues on 450 MHz G4

2010-04-10 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
That can work, depending on what external HDD you bought. You see, i have a western digital digital book 500GB HDD extrnal that plugs in through firewire, but it will not be seen from my Mac at startup, because I haven't read on the box that it sad Requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later odr for

Re: G4 Quicksilver question

2010-04-10 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
never mind. i am no longer posting buying/selling posts. omg i forgot that rule sorry guys. o_0 On 4/9/10, Mark Sokolovsky coolmar...@gmail.com wrote: Wait, how about this. I have a SCSI controller card Ultra66. It is completely compatible with macs, and it goes into the PCI slot. It

Re: I got a pismo g3 400 for a project, your thoughts and help welcomed.

2010-04-10 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
I suggest that you fix it up and get that piece of history back on it's feet, because a pismo G3 doesn't just come around the ocrner too much anymore. I am not sure of this, but i don't think that Powerbook G3 laptops are able to run OS X due to some processor peroblem or some limitiation. Maybe

Re: graphics card for Quicksilver 2002

2010-04-10 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Hey guys... watch out make sure you don't post anything else about selling or buying, you might get banned. I have stopped because i got an early warning. On 4/9/10, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: On Apr 9, 2010, at 5:19 PM, Frank J. R. Hanstick wrote: I have a PCI Radeon 9200 and a AGP

Re: G3 BW. No power

2010-04-10 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Try getting a new power supply. Haven't you noticed? if you try everything and if the power supply still doesn't work, get a new one. A standard 500w ATX power supply should do the trick. Before you do that, unplug your machine from the wall. Press and hold the power button for 10 seconds. Then

Re: Ext 500 Gb USB Drive Issues on 450 MHz G4

2010-04-10 Thread Kasey Smith
On Fri, 09 Apr 2010 23:12:31 -0500, Kris Tilford ktilfo...@cox.net wrote: On Apr 9, 2010, at 10:59 PM, Jonas Lopez wrote: BUT as you pointed out, a USB XHD will not start up. NOW, is there any USB XHD that does NOT have their own power supply and so can start up? These external USB HDs

Re: Ext 500 Gb USB Drive Issues on 450 MHz G4

2010-04-10 Thread John Carmonne
On Apr 9, 2010, at 11:51 PM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: That can work, depending on what external HDD you bought. You see, i have a western digital digital book 500GB HDD extrnal that plugs in through firewire, but it will not be seen from my Mac at startup, because I haven't read on the box

Re: I got a pismo g3 400 for a project, your thoughts and help welcomed.

2010-04-10 Thread John Carmonne
On Apr 10, 2010, at 12:09 AM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: I suggest that you fix it up and get that piece of history back on it's feet, because a pismo G3 doesn't just come around the ocrner too much anymore. I am not sure of this, but i don't think that Powerbook G3 laptops are able to run OS X

Re: graphics card for Quicksilver 2002

2010-04-10 Thread John Carmonne
On Apr 10, 2010, at 12:14 AM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: Hey guys... watch out make sure you don't post anything else about selling or buying, you might get banned. I have stopped because i got an early warning. Duh, I told you last month. LOL John Carmonne Yorba Linda USA Sent from my MBP

Re: Ext 500 Gb USB Drive Issues on 450 MHz G4

2010-04-10 Thread John Carmonne
Will this work with the Summer 2000 iMacs too? -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ I used a USB DVD drive to insall Tiger on my summer iMacs by booting from OS9. All three of my machines didn't have DVD rom. If I could use a stick that would be great.

Re: Safari taking a long time to load web page after restart.

2010-04-10 Thread John Carmonne
On Apr 10, 2010, at 5:49 AM, Lawrence David Eden wrote: Safari started acting up again.. I trashed the prefs and reset the homepage.. Still sitting there without loading. Any good lightweight RELIABLE web browsers out there? I tried firefox, it seems to have a big problem keeping its

Re: Printer Woes - What do I trash?

2010-04-10 Thread Dana Collins
On 4/8/10 6:02 PM, Bruce Johnson of john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu sent On Apr 8, 2010, at 1:17 PM, DLC wrote: Greetings all. A little assistance would be appreciated. I have an office G5 running 10.5.8; attached via USB is the printer, an HP Laser Jet P1505n. Recently, the printer suddenly

Re: Safari taking a long time to load web page after restart.

2010-04-10 Thread Dan
At 6:33 PM -0700 4/7/2010, Gus wrote: [400-MHz PowerMac G3 GW, 768 MB RAM, Mac OS X 10.4.11] Safari 4.0.4 (4531.21.10) 5 Gig free on start up drive. Right off the top - you haven't got enough free space on the HD for things to run smoothly. Expect excessive SPOD time while your system

Remove Password

2010-04-10 Thread Papa Bear
Just bought a Wallstreet at an auction and it boots up to a password. Any easy way to remove the password?? Or to wipe the hd and install new OS?? Have OS9 avaiable on Cd but not sure if CD works?? Yet?? Any and all help needed. Papa Bear -- You received this message because you are a member

Re: Remove Password

2010-04-10 Thread Richard Gerome
If you have the install disc you can just do a clean and reinstall with the CD... I do not know any other way except getting the password... Maybe someone else knows more??? -Original Message- From: Papa Bear gda1...@aol.com Sent: Apr 10, 2010 5:50 PM To: G-Group

Re: Remove Password

2010-04-10 Thread Kris Tilford
On Apr 10, 2010, at 4:50 PM, Papa Bear wrote: Just bought a Wallstreet at an auction and it boots up to a password. Any easy way to remove the password?? If it's OS X, boot any installer CD and use Reset Password in the menu bar. If it's OS 9, boot any bootable system and navigate to

Re: Ext 500 Gb USB Drive Issues on 450 MHz G4

2010-04-10 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Most macs with USB ports can boot from USB, but I used my summer 2001 G3 iMac to boot from USB to install tiger. I also used my PM G4 graphite sawtooth with no problems. Here is a list of computers that cannot be booted using USB: iBook Clamshell series (all versions) BW Power Macintosh G3 iBook

Re: graphics card for Quicksilver 2002

2010-04-10 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
yeah On 4/10/10, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com wrote: On Apr 10, 2010, at 12:14 AM, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: Hey guys... watch out make sure you don't post anything else about selling or buying, you might get banned. I have stopped because i got an early warning. Duh, I told you last

Re: Printer Woes - What do I trash?

2010-04-10 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Try getting new drivers from the HP website. That might help. It worked for me that time when i bought an HP Photosmart C4200 and after a while i ran into the same problems that you did. I unplugged and-replugged everything, un-installed the printer, and re-installed it using downloaded drivers.

Re: Ext 500 Gb USB Drive Issues on 450 MHz G4

2010-04-10 Thread Jonas Ulrich
Thank you Mark, for clarifying, that in fact, no hacking is required to run Leopard. I have used leopard assist on plenty machines and it works great. There is a 128GB limit on that machine. You can install a PCI ATA or SATA card and plug the hard drive into that to bypass the limit, or the