New video card help...

2010-06-24 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Hello everyone, I need help on this one, so try your best. I recently picked up myself a nice deal on a new video card. for $60, I got myself an ATI Radeon 9550 AGP 8x with 256MB of DDR2 Video RAM. I am pretty much fed up with even my 64MB Nvidia Geforce 4 MX/MX440 ADC card from my dual 1.0Ghz

Re: Putting SATA drive into PM Mirrored Door G4/1.42

2010-06-24 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Relax. I have a 320GB Seagate 2.5 SATA drive plugged into a PCI card on my sawtooth, and it works Okay under Mac OS X Leopard, so a MDD should be fine considering it has a faster version of the PowerPC G4 processor.  Sent from my Power mac G4 Sawtooth. -- You received this message because you

Re: liquid cooled G5 question

2010-06-24 Thread roger deghetto
just the quad core is liquid cooled as i have a dual core 2.0ghz and its not liquid cooled hope this helps roger On Jun 23, 8:33 pm, ah...clem boneheads...@gmail.com wrote: IIRC, i've read about the problems associated particularly w/ the earlier models having a cooling system made by

Re: New video card help...

2010-06-24 Thread Kris Tilford
You're going to have to flash the BIOS of the card (PC terminology) to a Mac ROM (Mac terminology) so that the card has Mac firmware instead of PC firmware. This is required of all PPC Mac video cards. On Intel hackintosh this isn't necessary, but you'd need to have OS X kexts that support

Re: New video card help...

2010-06-24 Thread Nestamicky
On 24/06/10 6:19 AM, Kris Tilford wrote: The main thing that causes problems when flashing firmware on video cards is that the new firmware may specify a different clock speed than the original. You can read the speed of the VRAM on the VRAM chips on the card, and then if the clock speed of the

Re: liquid cooled G5 question

2010-06-24 Thread John Carmonne
On Jun 24, 2010, at 4:18 AM, roger deghetto wrote: On Jun 23, 8:33 pm, ah...clem boneheads...@gmail.com wrote: IIRC, i've read about the problems associated particularly w/ the earlier models having a cooling system made by Delphi. supposedly Apple then switched to a cooling system made

Re: New video card help...

2010-06-24 Thread pdimage
On 24/6/10 08:46, Mark Sokolovsky coolmar...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I need help on this one, so try your best. I recently picked up myself a nice deal on a new video card. for $60, I got myself an ATI Radeon 9550 AGP 8x with 256MB of DDR2 Video RAM. I am pretty much fed up with even

CD Music

2010-06-24 Thread gifutiger
Greetings G-Group I know that this might be the incorrect place to post this question but I'm hopping that someone can point me to the correct location. I have some music that is in MP3 and MP4 format however my family room CD/DVD player is a Toshiba SD-6109C. Yeah it's at least 25 years old and

Re: CD Music

2010-06-24 Thread Len Gerstel
On Jun 24, 2010, at 1:01 PM, gifutiger wrote: Greetings G-Group I know that this might be the incorrect place to post this question but I'm hopping that someone can point me to the correct location. I have some music that is in MP3 and MP4 format however my family room CD/DVD player is a

Re: CD Music

2010-06-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jun 24, 2010, at 10:01 AM, gifutiger wrote: Greetings G-Group I know that this might be the incorrect place to post this question but I'm hopping that someone can point me to the correct location. I have some music that is in MP3 and MP4 format however my family room CD/DVD player is

Re: CD Music

2010-06-24 Thread john CARMONNE
On Jun 24, 2010, at 10:09 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jun 24, 2010, at 10:01 AM, gifutiger wrote: Greetings G-Group I know that this might be the incorrect place to post this question but I'm hopping that someone can point me to the correct location. I have some music that is in MP3 and

Re: CD Music

2010-06-24 Thread Bill Connelly
On Jun 24, 2010, at 1:01 PM, gifutiger wrote: What format does the music industry use and what application can I use to convert the songs that I have. Is it aif or aiff type format at 24 bit? -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3,

Mafia Wars

2010-06-24 Thread Stephen Conrad
When playing Mafia Wars on Facebook (Safari 4.1 on a Quicksilver running OS X 10.4.11) it used to let me send messages to my Facebook page when I Iced someone. Now it shows the message ox and I can type in it but I cannot post it. The whole screen background is darkened and I have to reload the

Re: IDK how to flash a video card

2010-06-24 Thread dc
On Jun 16, 12:56 am, Mark Sokolovsky coolmar...@gmail.com wrote: I have an Nvidia GeForce 6200 AGP with 256Mb DDR2 RAM AGP 8X, and it's a PC card. Can somebody show me step by step instructions to get it working on my PM G4 Sawtooth? After yo flash the ROM you will need to tape over pins 3 11

Re: New video card help...

2010-06-24 Thread dc
On Jun 24, 3:46 am, Mark Sokolovsky coolmar...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I need help on this one, so try your best. I recently picked up myself a nice deal on a new video card. for $60, I got myself an ATI Radeon 9550 AGP 8x with 256MB of DDR2 Video RAM. Sorry but that card is not a

Re: CD Music

2010-06-24 Thread gifutiger
Tried the iTunes, got a lot of CD's that will play in my Saturn VUE, but so will the CD's that have the songs in MP4 format, and on a lot fewer disks. Thanks for your input and if you have any other ideas let me know. Harry San Jose, Ca On Jun

Re: CD Music

2010-06-24 Thread gifutiger
Bruce That's what I'm thinking, I burned the CD's using iTunes, but I used CD -R blank disk and it may be that the Toshiba just won't read -R disks. What would you recommend as a substitute for the -R disk? Harry San Jose, Ca On Jun 24, 10:09 am, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu

Re: CD Music

2010-06-24 Thread Len Gerstel
On Jun 24, 2010, at 4:26 PM, gifutiger wrote: Tried the iTunes, got a lot of CD's that will play in my Saturn VUE, but so will the CD's that have the songs in MP4 format, and on a lot fewer disks. Thanks for your input and if you have any other ideas let me know. Harry San Jose, Ca If the

Re: CD Music

2010-06-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jun 24, 2010, at 1:30 PM, gifutiger wrote: Bruce That's what I'm thinking, I burned the CD's using iTunes, but I used CD -R blank disk and it may be that the Toshiba just won't read -R disks. What would you recommend as a substitute for the -R disk? Make certain that your iTunes prefs

Re: CD Music

2010-06-24 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jun 24, 2010, at 3:30 PM, gifutiger wrote: That's what I'm thinking, I burned the CD's using iTunes, but I used CD -R blank disk and it may be that the Toshiba just won't read -R disks. What would you recommend as a substitute for the -R disk? This sounds like you're burning music onto DVD

Re: CD Music

2010-06-24 Thread Len Gerstel
On Jun 24, 2010, at 4:51 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Jun 24, 2010, at 3:30 PM, gifutiger wrote: That's what I'm thinking, I burned the CD's using iTunes, but I used CD -R blank disk and it may be that the Toshiba just won't read -R disks. What would you recommend as a substitute for the -R

Re: CD Music

2010-06-24 Thread Bob Whiton
At 4:37 PM -0400 6/24/10, Len Gerstel wrote: On Jun 24, 2010, at 4:26 PM, gifutiger wrote: Tried the iTunes, got a lot of CD's that will play in my Saturn VUE, but so will the CD's that have the songs in MP4 format, and on a lot fewer disks. If the Burned as Music CDs (a bit over an hour

Re: CD Music

2010-06-24 Thread John Carmonne
On Jun 24, 2010, at 2:32 PM, Bob Whiton wrote: At 4:37 PM -0400 6/24/10, Len Gerstel wrote: On Jun 24, 2010, at 4:26 PM, gifutiger wrote: Tried the iTunes, got a lot of CD's that will play in my Saturn VUE, but so will the CD's that have the songs in MP4 format, and on a lot fewer disks.

Re: CD Music

2010-06-24 Thread Bob Whiton
At 2:46 PM -0700 6/24/10, John Carmonne wrote: If you use AIFF and CDR disks and you have a problem playing you need a player, Almost all commercial CDs will play on anything, The trouble comes from the other formats and incompatible CDs. If you have a Mac compatible burner and iTunes you

Re: CD Music

2010-06-24 Thread gifutiger
Thanks to everyone, I guess that I should have added on the first post, I can make CD's that play in my Saturn Vue, they also play on our CD/ DVD player in the bedroom and they play on my G4 tower, on my wife's Lampshade G4 iMac (10.5) and on my 1 year old Snow Leopard Macbook intel, so those

Re: CD Music

2010-06-24 Thread gifutiger
I just opened my iTunes and it says all of my songs are AAC audio file does that mean that they are AIFF Cheers Harry San Jose, Ca On Jun 24, 4:53 pm, gifutiger gifuti...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks to everyone, I guess that I should have added

Re: CD Music

2010-06-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jun 24, 2010, at 4:53 PM, gifutiger wrote: I can make CD's that play in my Saturn Vue, they also play on our CD/ DVD player in the bedroom and they play on my G4 tower, on my wife's Lampshade G4 iMac (10.5) and on my 1 year old Snow Leopard Macbook intel, so those that have concluded

Re: CD Music

2010-06-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jun 24, 2010, at 5:02 PM, gifutiger wrote: I just opened my iTunes and it says all of my songs are AAC audio file does that mean that they are AIFF Forget the format, this has nothing whatsoever to do with burning the disk; iTunes converts the data to correct red book format when it burns

Re: OS X upgrade question

2010-06-24 Thread Greg
On Jun 18, 8:20 pm, Daniel Stewart daniel.stewart...@gmail.com wrote: I should probably mention that it says on the Software Restore disks that it is compatible with OS 10.1.2 and OS 9.22.  Should that give me problems with 104.11? It won't give any problems. You install 10.4, work up to

Re: CD Music

2010-06-24 Thread John Carmonne
On Jun 24, 2010, at 4:45 PM, Bob Whiton wrote: At 2:46 PM -0700 6/24/10, John Carmonne wrote: If you use AIFF and CDR disks and you have a problem playing you need a player, Almost all commercial CDs will play on anything, The trouble comes from the other formats and incompatible CDs.

Re: CD Music

2010-06-24 Thread Bill Connelly
On Jun 24, 2010, at 8:02 PM, gifutiger wrote: I just opened my iTunes and it says all of my songs are AAC audio file does that mean that they are AIFF Open the burned CD on any of your macs and look at the suffix of the audio files. -- You received this message because you are a member

Re: IDK how to flash a video card

2010-06-24 Thread Justin The Cynical
On 6/24/2010 13:10, dc wrote: On Jun 16, 12:56 am, Mark Sokolovskycoolmar...@gmail.com wrote: I have an Nvidia GeForce 6200 AGP with 256Mb DDR2 RAM AGP 8X, and it's a PC card. Can somebody show me step by step instructions to get it working on my PM G4 Sawtooth? After yo flash the ROM you