Re: Excel printing mystery

2010-11-12 Thread Bruce Johnson
That dim memory finally rose out of the memory swamps like Luke's X-wingand it turns out that it was an issue in Excel for the PC dealing with Postscript printers that I was remembering, so was completely not this issuedo this: (presuming the Mac is running a newer version of OS X) Star

Re: Excel printing mystery

2010-11-12 Thread Clark Martin
On Nov 5, 2010, at 8:42 AM, Don Wakefield wrote: > Excel printing mystery > > Spread sheets will print correctly when the printer icon in the Excel tool > bar is selected, yet the Mac reports "the application Excel quit > unexpectedly" when the printing method of "file-print is selected from

Re: ADC to DVI Adaptor

2010-11-12 Thread Bill Connelly
On Nov 12, 2010, at 12:32 PM, Tina K. wrote: On 2010/11/12 09:42, Charles Lenington so eloquently wrote: On 11/12/10 10:26 AM, Tina K. wrote: On 2010/11/12 09:04, Ted Treen so eloquently wrote: it does have 2 x DVD connectors (one is dual-link) How can you tell that one is dual-link and th

Re: Excel printing mystery

2010-11-12 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Nov 5, 2010, at 8:42 AM, Don Wakefield wrote: > Excel printing mystery > > Spread sheets will print correctly when the printer icon in the Excel tool > bar is selected, yet the Mac reports "the application Excel quit > unexpectedly" when the printing method of "file-print is selected from

Re: Trying to bring a partition back to life

2010-11-12 Thread John Carmonne
On Nov 10, 2010, at 10:07 AM, Bill Connelly wrote: On Nov 10, 2010, at 12:00 AM, onelucent wrote: Actually, in OS 9, I have had good luck with Disk Doctor. It may take multiple runs, each time getting a little further. I may skip Media Check so it concentrates on the Disk Directory.

Re: Trying to bring a partition back to life

2010-11-12 Thread JOHN CARMONNE
On Nov 9, 2010, at 6:29 PM, MaGioZal wrote: Hi, I am currently running Mac OS 9 and 10.4 on a Beige G3 PowerMac, and recently the biggest, non-booting partition which contained alot of softwares and data (from which I didn't make backup...:-/) just died down after some forced shutdowns. I've t

Re: Blueberry iMac

2010-11-12 Thread Ashgrove
On Nov 8, 6:14 pm, Dennis Myhand wrote: > Okay, I do have a Revision D 333MHz G-3, and I guess it is Purple.  I > depends on the light. Going back to the upgrading part, this model can take up to 512MB of RAM, and a hard drive up to 128GB. It does not require any special tools or particular know-

Re: Blueberry iMac

2010-11-12 Thread Ashgrove
On Nov 8, 6:14 pm, Dennis Myhand wrote: > Okay, I do have a Revision D 333MHz G-3, and I guess it is Purple.  I > depends on the light. That's my problem, too. It looks kinda indigo blue sometimes, and sometimes it's more like violet. I'm a tad color blind, too: dark blue and deep purple tones te

Re: G5 Shutdown issues

2010-11-12 Thread John Carmonne
On Nov 7, 2010, at 9:52 PM, Clark Martin wrote: > > On Nov 7, 2010, at 6:49 PM, DLC wrote: > >> Greetings all, >> I have two G5 towers in our lab (1.8GHz DP-late 2004 models) running >> 10.5.8. They have both suddenly acquired the habit of not wanting to >> shut down. When instructed, the Deskt

Re: Update on Kernel Panics on G4

2010-11-12 Thread John Carmonne
On Nov 7, 2010, at 1:33 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: > On Nov 7, 2010, at 2:03 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: >> >> On Nov 7, 2010, at 1:54 PM, smac0031 wrote: >>> >>> I have a hardware test CD that came with my digital audio G4 and tried >>> to run it on this computer but it wouldn't go. Oh well. >> >>

Re: More Strange Stuff On A G5 iMac

2010-11-12 Thread John Carmonne
On Nov 7, 2010, at 6:59 AM, AndersFager wrote: > I'm trying to get this iMac G5 to start from an installer disc in > order to format the new drive. And now I have a black screen with a > little blinking white square in the upper left corner. It feels like > the damned thing has gone Win 3.0 on me

Re: Blueberry iMac

2010-11-12 Thread JOHN CARMONNE
On Nov 5, 2010, at 3:14 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Nov 5, 2010, at 1:05 PM, Dennis Myhand wrote: I have just locked on to a Blueberry iMac with Blueberry keyboard and Blueberry puck mouse. How difficult is it to upgrade these? It looks like a sealed unit. Do I need special tools? Tha

Excel printing mystery

2010-11-12 Thread Don Wakefield
Excel printing mystery Spread sheets will print correctly when the printer icon in the Excel tool bar is selected, yet the Mac reports "the application Excel quit unexpectedly" when the printing method of  "file-print is selected from the Mac menu or or command P shortcut is used. Any ideas a

Re: Thermal Compound Question

2010-11-12 Thread John Carmonne
On Nov 4, 2010, at 11:06 AM, Peter Haas wrote: On Nov 4, 2010, at 9:59 AM, Albert Carter wrote: I wouldn't necessary recommend using Pin-Sol or Water to clean a processor. After wiping away the old paste with alcohol 99%. I use a "Contact Cleaner and Wash" spray product from Fry's Elect

Re: Thermal Compound Question

2010-11-12 Thread John Carmonne
On Nov 4, 2010, at 8:09 AM, ah...clem wrote: On Nov 4, 12:16 am, "Tina K." wrote: That might not be the case, I do remember some Apple model being manufactured with too much thermal paste by mistake, but I don't remember which model it was. that was clearly a manufacturing mistake. i had

G5 Dual processors not bad?

2010-11-12 Thread John Carmonne
I have a PM G5 Dual 2.7 that I just replaced the heat sink on. It had leaked and I was able to catch it before it did any real damage. After I did the installation I booted ASD 2.5.8 and the Calibration page said that calibration wasn't needed. Also I have "Hardware Monitor and all the temps

Re: ADC to DVI Adaptor

2010-11-12 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/12 09:42, Charles Lenington so eloquently wrote: On 11/12/10 10:26 AM, Tina K. wrote: On 2010/11/12 09:04, Ted Treen so eloquently wrote: it does have 2 x DVD connectors (one is dual-link) How can you tell that one is dual-link and the other is not? I have a 6800 Ultra that is dual

Re: ADC to DVI Adaptor

2010-11-12 Thread Charles Lenington
On 11/12/10 10:26 AM, Tina K. wrote: On 2010/11/12 09:04, Ted Treen so eloquently wrote: it does have 2 x DVD connectors (one is dual-link) How can you tell that one is dual-link and the other is not? I have a 6800 Ultra that is dual-link but I don't know if it's just on one port or both. Tin

Re: ADC to DVI Adaptor

2010-11-12 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/11/12 09:04, Ted Treen so eloquently wrote: it does have 2 x DVD connectors (one is dual-link) How can you tell that one is dual-link and the other is not? I have a 6800 Ultra that is dual-link but I don't know if it's just on one port or both. Tina -- iMac 20" USB 2 1.25GHz G4 2G

Re: ADC to DVI Adaptor

2010-11-12 Thread Ted Treen
From: Trickster To: G-Group Sent: Friday, 12 November, 2010 15:41:02 Subject: Re: ADC to DVI Adaptor Thanks for the link Ted. I currently have a 5200 in there... thoughts on an upgrade path? My G5 has a 256MB 9650 in there:- The Mac's an early 2005 Dual 2.

Re: ADC to DVI Adaptor

2010-11-12 Thread Trickster
Thanks for the link Ted. I currently have a 5200 in there... thoughts on an upgrade path? On Nov 11, 6:27 am, Geke wrote: > You could also put in an extra (used) graphic card in a PCI slot. > Those are really cheap. > But if you're not that tight, you could consider replacing the current > AGP c