Re: G4 iMac won't connect wirelessly to internet

2010-12-22 Thread John Carmonne
t??? It appears your iMac doesn't have an Airport card installed? If you're lucky and have a USB 2.0 G4 iMac you can use faster Airport cards or even used a USB wireless adapater. It might be smarter to use a USB adapter, generally any with a Broadcom chipset can be recognized in OS X

Desktop wallpaper for that bigger screen...

2010-12-22 Thread Cornett
Dan, et All G'day! to All.. Anyone gots some recommendations / favs? I've mostly always used: http://macdesktops.com/ after finding an appealing wallpaper's thumbnail, just click to reveal all the sizes available, then option-click on your needed 1680 x 1050 to download, follow up by tossing

Re: RJ 45 Aggravation Update

2010-12-22 Thread Mark Murphy
I do, I think part of my problem is I only work on this stuff every several years or so. Thanks On Dec 20, 2010, at 9:38 PM, gifutiger wrote: Greetings May I ask if you have a pair of RJ-45 crimpers? They usually include a place to cut the cable prior to laying the wires into the RJ-45

Re: Dead computer??

2010-12-22 Thread John Carmonne
On Dec 21, 2010, at 4:06 PM, DAN A CURRIE wrote: My sons MDD 1.25 dualie 2GB RAM running 10.5 has died. We had a electrical storm a couple of days ago so I unplugged it, forgot to plug it in until today, when I did and pressed the start button, NOTHING! Put a new MB battery in it and

Ticking PSU - Quicksilver G4

2010-12-22 Thread Nick Smith - Sky High Data Capture
Not sure how to dredge up an old thread since I receive the digest so cannot hit reply to an individual topic. I had a problem a few weeks ago with a ticking PSU on my quicksilver and was advised to replace with either a stock psu or adapt an atx power supply. In the end I went down the

Re: Dead computer??

2010-12-22 Thread butthead
On Tuesday, December 21, 2010 9:37:48 PM UTC-5, Eric wrote: On 12/21/10 7:06 PM, DAN A CURRIE of dan...@frontiernet.net sent ...pressed the start button, NOTHING! Hi Dan, Hold C, or X or Command-Option-Shift-Delete, T for target disk mode, or N if you want to try netbooting.Hold

Re: Dead computer??

2010-12-22 Thread ah...clem
do as john suggests, except let it sit for at least a day or even two with all cables disconnected from mobo. make sure PRAM battery is good before you reinstall it. no guarantee that it will in your case, but i have personally seen this work. On Dec 21, 7:14 pm, John Carmonne carmo...@aol.com

Re: Dead computer??

2010-12-22 Thread butthead
My sons MDD 1.25 dualie 2GB RAM running 10.5 has died. ...pressed the start button, NOTHING! Put a new MB battery in it and pressed the button again, NOTHING! ...make it start off the DVD, external HD, another computer, your network... Hold C, or X or Command-Option-Shift-Delete, T for

MDD has k-panic then won't restart Was: Dead computer??

2010-12-22 Thread butthead
On Tuesday, December 21, 2010 7:06:37 PM UTC-5, Dan II wrote: My sons MDD 1.25 dualie 2GB RAM running 10.5 has died. We had a electrical storm a couple of days ago so I unplugged it, forgot to plug it in until today, when I did and pressed the start button, NOTHING! Put a new MB battery in

classic or no classic in leopard?

2010-12-22 Thread ah...clem
hi all, i run tiger on all my macs (G4's G5's) except for the 2010 intelmac (10.6.4), but i have been thinking of getting 10.5 for the older ones. however, i use a number of classic apps regularly, and i don't remember if 10.5 supports the classic environment or not. i tried checking the apple

Re: classic or no classic in leopard?

2010-12-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 22, 2010, at 11:43 AM, ah...clem wrote: hi all, i run tiger on all my macs (G4's G5's) except for the 2010 intelmac (10.6.4), but i have been thinking of getting 10.5 for the older ones. however, i use a number of classic apps regularly, and i don't remember if 10.5 supports the

Re: classic or no classic in leopard?

2010-12-22 Thread Dan
At 12:31 PM -0700 12/22/2010, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Dec 22, 2010, at 11:43 AM, ah...clem wrote: i run tiger on all my macs (G4's G5's) except for the 2010 intelmac (10.6.4), but i have been thinking of getting 10.5 for the older ones. however, i use a number of classic apps regularly,

Re: classic or no classic in leopard?

2010-12-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 22, 2010, at 3:42 PM, Dan wrote: I've found Sheepshaver to be sluggish and/or crashy Sure that isn't just the experience of using OS 9 after living with OS X for so long? gdr -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do

Re: classic or no classic in leopard?

2010-12-22 Thread Daniel Stewart
I have not tried it myself, but wouldn't dual booting being an option? Then you could just boot into whichever OS you need at the time. On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Dec 22, 2010, at 3:42 PM, Dan wrote: I've found Sheepshaver to be

New internal hard drive for Power Mac G4

2010-12-22 Thread Sean Carroll
About time I discovered Low End Mac and this group, after 10+ years of owning a G4. My question: What are my limitations in terms of selecting a new hard drive that I can install without any additional upgrades/replacement as far as ATA, Ultra ATA/100, SATA and all that (giving myself away here)

Carbon Copy Cloner?

2010-12-22 Thread John Callahan
I realize that this is a sort of elementary question but possibly someone will help me. Is it possible to copy the entire contents of my Hard drive to my external drive (300GB cap.) and automatically replace the files I have there, that would be duplicates but save the information that is

Re: classic or no classic in leopard?

2010-12-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 22, 2010, at 4:19 PM, Daniel Stewart wrote: I have not tried it myself, but wouldn't dual booting being an option? Then you could just boot into whichever OS you need at the time. Only on some of the G4's. No G5 will boot natively in OS 9, and the last model, perhaps the last two

Re: classic or no classic in leopard?

2010-12-22 Thread Bill Connelly
On Dec 22, 2010, at 6:19 PM, Daniel Stewart wrote: I have not tried it myself, but wouldn't dual booting being an option? Then you could just boot into whichever OS you need at the time. That has worked for me. Using Leopard 10.5.8, and having OS 9 Classic under Tiger 10.4.11, and going

Re: classic or no classic in leopard?

2010-12-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 22, 2010, at 5:09 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: On Dec 22, 2010, at 6:19 PM, Daniel Stewart wrote: I have not tried it myself, but wouldn't dual booting being an option? Then you could just boot into whichever OS you need at the time. That has worked for me. Using Leopard 10.5.8, and

Re: classic or no classic in leopard?

2010-12-22 Thread Daniel Stewart
I didn't think of dual booting multiple versions of OS X either. lol Good to know about the OS9 /OS X dual boot option though. My trusty Quicksilver 2002 runs both just fine. On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: On Dec 22, 2010, at 5:09 PM, Bill

Re: classic or no classic in leopard?

2010-12-22 Thread John Carmonne
On Dec 22, 2010, at 4:55 PM, Daniel Stewart wrote: I didn't think of dual booting multiple versions of OS X either. lol Good to know about the OS9 /OS X dual boot option though. My trusty Quicksilver 2002 runs both just fine. My PowerMac G4 MDD Dual 1.25 boots OS.9.2.2, Tiger 10.4.11,

Re: Carbon Copy Cloner?

2010-12-22 Thread Dan
At 6:41 PM -0500 12/22/2010, John Callahan wrote: Is it possible to copy the entire contents of my Hard drive to my external drive (300GB cap.) and automatically replace the files I have there, that would be duplicates but save the information that is new to my external hard drive? I have

Re: classic or no classic in leopard?

2010-12-22 Thread Bill Connelly
On Dec 22, 2010, at 7:12 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Dec 22, 2010, at 5:09 PM, Bill Connelly wrote: On Dec 22, 2010, at 6:19 PM, Daniel Stewart wrote: I have not tried it myself, but wouldn't dual booting being an option? Then you could just boot into whichever OS you need at the time.

Re: Desktop wallpaper for that bigger screen...

2010-12-22 Thread Dana Collins
Whoa...it's Bill! Nice to hear that you're still around, mate. A Happy Christmas and New Year season to you and yours. Best regards, Dana (p.s. I like MacDesktops, too, and appreciate that the good pictures are available in so many resolutions) On 12/20/10 8:25 PM, Cornett of corn...@gol.com

Re: Desktop wallpaper for that bigger screen...

2010-12-22 Thread Dan
Thanks all! And thanks too to those who emailed their favs to me directly - wow! Some amazing pics! A few of my old favs, I have embiggened. The rest I found at higher resolutions at the various sites. All is good in the world - my fav looks great in the bigger resolution...

Re: classic or no classic in leopard?

2010-12-22 Thread Dan
At 9:01 PM -0500 12/22/2010, Bill Connelly wrote: The only issue I believe is that Spotlight under Tiger starts up when you first run it, after using Leopard ... as if it's never run, if I interpret what is going on correctly. Letting it run to completion, so it doesn't show its buggy-ness,

Re: Desktop wallpaper for that bigger screen...

2010-12-22 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 22, 2010, at 7:51 PM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: All is good in the world - my fav looks great in the bigger resolution... http://dl.dropbox.com/u/610326/JGredBaron1600x1200.jpg After the turn of the century, in the clear blue skies over Germany... :-) -- Bruce -- You

Re: Dead computer??

2010-12-22 Thread t...@savingus.org
My sons MDD 1.25 dualie 2GB RAM running 10.5 has died. ...pressed the start button, NOTHING! Put a new MB battery in it and pressed the button again, NOTHING! ...make it start off the DVD, external HD, another computer, your network... Hold C, or X or

What card is this?

2010-12-22 Thread Andrew Liu Anderson
Hello All, I have 2 G4 Sawtooth computers. One is 400Mhz, the other 450Mhz. One of them has a small card, approximately 2-1/2 X 3-1/2 mounted on the motherboard between the Airport card slot and the PCI cars slots. There are 2 screws holding it down, and there is a tiny cable connected to

Re: What card is this?

2010-12-22 Thread Dana Collins
On 12/22/10 11:21 PM, Andrew Liu Anderson of ma...@lonepineradio.net sent Hello All, I have 2 G4 Sawtooth computers. One is 400Mhz, the other 450Mhz. One of them has a small card, approximately 2-1/2 X 3-1/2 mounted on the motherboard between the Airport card slot and the PCI cars slots.

Re: What card is this?

2010-12-22 Thread Jonas Ulrich
Yep. Modem indeed. As a person who just recently got cable internet, I'm very familiar with Apple's modems. -Jonas -- 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