Re: Sawtooth freeze

2010-08-12 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 12, 2010, at 10:10 PM, James Therrault wrote: I bought a 22" Samsung display plugged it in out of the box with my G4 Gigabit/ATI RAgePro with 16MB. Never have had a problem. I think you've got a problem and you just don't know it. The problem is that you don't get any Quartz Extreme

Re: Sawtooth freeze

2010-08-12 Thread James Therrault
On Aug 12, 2010, at 8:31 PM, Midnight rider wrote: Don't ever plug in a monitor bigger than 17" in a card that is less than 32MB, because you won't like the performance at all, and it might freeze. That used to happen to me when I had my 23" dell plugged into my ATI rage 128 pro card. If y

USB 2.0 Port G5 PPC (late 2005) question

2010-08-12 Thread Arnel Tuazon
Hey folks, Quick question is there a difference as how OS X or the computer itself handles the front USB port vs. the rear ports? I have an iPhone 4 and when I connect it to the front port iTunes doesn't automatically start up I have to manually start it. Now iPhoto does start up automatically

Re: Sawtooth freeze

2010-08-12 Thread Midnight rider
Don't ever plug in a monitor bigger than 17" in a card that is less than 32MB, because you won't like the performance at all, and it might freeze. That used to happen to me when I had my 23" dell plugged into my ATI rage 128 pro card. If you need a new card, send me a private email. --  Sent from

Sawtooth freeze

2010-08-12 Thread les
Hi, I have a G4 Sawtooth AGP 450 Mhz. This machine freezes randomly so, I replaced the original 350Mhz processor with a 450Mhz from a similar machine. It has 1.1 Gig RAM. It still freezes albeit occasionally and still runs quite slow. I checked the crash logs but couldn't decipher. However

Re: Do G5s sleep?

2010-08-12 Thread Dana Collins
On 8/12/10 12:08 PM, Michael Emery of mem...@texas.net sent > I recently had a similar problem with a recent Mac arriving in my > household. One of our list brethren, Al Poulin, sent me to a website > that walked me a short distance down a list of things to do, which > worked for me: > > And

Re: Do G5s sleep?

2010-08-12 Thread Dana Collins
On 8/12/10 12:13 PM, john CARMONNE of carmo...@aol.com sent > > On Aug 12, 2010, at 8:46 AM, Bequette Jeff wrote: > >> >> On Aug 10, 2010, at 4:24 PM, DLC wrote: >> >>> Greetings all, >>> I was able to move a spare G5 (1.8GHz, DP) from my school office to >>> home studio. At the office, sleep

Re: Recommended bootable external Firewire drives for G4 MDD Dual-1Gb

2010-08-12 Thread John Carmonne
On Aug 12, 2010, at 1:09 PM, Al Poulin wrote: > > I like what Dale and Dan both say about the quad interfaces. If you > limit yourself to the two interfaces you have with your old Mac, you > may need one of the other interfaces for your next Mac. I have one of > the macsales/OWC 1TB Mercury Qu

Re: G4 Quicksilver 933 Audio Issue/Question

2010-08-12 Thread Dan
At 12:04 PM -0700 8/12/2010, Tom wrote: I tried changing the internal speaker [...] with no success. Headphones and external speakers work ok. In most of the cases I've run across, the problem was bad/dirty contact and/or metal fatigue in the headphone/speaker jack. IOW, the springy thingy

Re: Recommended bootable external Firewire drives for G4 MDD Dual-1Gb

2010-08-12 Thread Al Poulin
On Aug 12, 11:16 am, Dale Hoffman wrote: > putting the drive of my choice in them. I've found Other World   > Computing to be a great all around source for drive mechanisms and   > external enclosures. I've bought a dozen or so of these enclosures and   > have had no problems. > > http://eshop.

Re: G4 Quicksilver 933 Audio Issue/Question

2010-08-12 Thread Tom
I also have a QS 2001 867 with a similar problem. I tried changing the internal speaker with a speaker out of an identical, (dead mobo but would bong indicating mobo or CPU) QS with no success. Headphones and external speakers work ok. I am interested in where to look for damaged components and ho

Re: Do G5s sleep?

2010-08-12 Thread TVirkkala
My 1.8GHz PowerMac will not successfully sleep. But my 2.3GHzx2 PowerMac sleeps and wakes up just fine. twv -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://

Re: Do G5s sleep?

2010-08-12 Thread Dana Collins
On 8/12/10 11:46 AM, Bequette Jeff of jbeque...@tconl.com sent > > On Aug 10, 2010, at 4:24 PM, DLC wrote: > >> Greetings all, >> I was able to move a spare G5 (1.8GHz, DP) from my school office to >> home studio. At the office, sleep on the unit was not a luxury; now at >> home it would be a ni

Re: Do G5s sleep?

2010-08-12 Thread john CARMONNE
On Aug 12, 2010, at 8:46 AM, Bequette Jeff wrote: On Aug 10, 2010, at 4:24 PM, DLC wrote: Greetings all, I was able to move a spare G5 (1.8GHz, DP) from my school office to home studio. At the office, sleep on the unit was not a luxury; now at home it would be a nice feature. The G5 does

Re: Do G5s sleep?

2010-08-12 Thread Michael Emery
I recently had a similar problem with a recent Mac arriving in my household. One of our list brethren, Al Poulin, sent me to a website that walked me a short distance down a list of things to do, which worked for me: And for "The Insomniac Mac," look here: http://www.macworld.com/ar

Re: Do G5s sleep?

2010-08-12 Thread Bequette Jeff
On Aug 10, 2010, at 4:24 PM, DLC wrote: Greetings all, I was able to move a spare G5 (1.8GHz, DP) from my school office to home studio. At the office, sleep on the unit was not a luxury; now at home it would be a nice feature. The G5 does not sleep; when I manually put it to sleep, it goes thro

Re: Recommended bootable external Firewire drives for G4 MDD Dual-1Gb

2010-08-12 Thread Dale Hoffman
On Aug 11, 2010, at 7:15 PM, artemis wrote: I have a G4 MDD Dual-1Gb, running 10.4.11. In 8 years it's never EVER missed a beat and continues to be my faithful workhorse for graphic arts and music recording. However, for my two original internal 80Gb drives it's obviously just a matter of time

Re: Recommended bootable external Firewire drives for G4 MDD Dual-1Gb

2010-08-12 Thread Carmonne
> FWIW, every external box I've purchased over the past couple of years > worked just fine to boot Macs.  In fact, you can probably boot your > MDD over a USB device (below). > > The MDD's and most PPC machines will boot USB sticks and will boot USB drives as long as the drive is fully powere

Re: Safari crashing

2010-08-12 Thread Dan
At 11:48 PM -0500 8/11/2010, Stephen Conrad wrote: Update ClickToFlash to 1.6b9. I've had problems with the 1.5.x line in Safari 4.1/5. It says I have 1.5.4 and am Up To Date Ok. Let's get serious here. I did not suggest updating for the hell of it. 1.5.4 is NOT up to date. The current "

Re: Recommended bootable external Firewire drives for G4 MDD Dual-1Gb

2010-08-12 Thread Dan
At 4:15 PM -0700 8/11/2010, artemis wrote: G4 MDD Dual-1Gb, running 10.4.11. I'm ready to purchase a Firewire external drive to do the CCC thing and create a bootable backup. Good. I've visited the Bombich site and spent time trawling through the FAQs and other advice, and now I'm more conf

Re: Safari crashing

2010-08-12 Thread Dan
At 7:26 PM -0600 8/11/2010, Paul Stamsen wrote: Previously, at 2:09 pm -0400 7/17/10, Dan wrote: At 2:35 PM -0700 7/16/2010, Bruce Johnson wrote: >>You appear to be running both SafariBlock and ClicktoFlash? Turn off or uninstall SafariBlock. >SafariBlock and ClickToFlash work well with e

Re: Recommended bootable external Firewire drives for G4 MDD Dual-1Gb

2010-08-12 Thread yawg
Hi, > Any FW enclosure with Oxford chip set and HDD PATA will do the trick with > CCC. The Oxford chip enclosures will boot the Mac's with out fail 99.9% of > the time. > I'm partial to the Seagate 500 GB drives in an OWC enclosure. but that's just > me:-) I would go for an external case with