Re: Digest for g3-5-list@googlegroups.com - 2 updates in 1 topic

2020-07-31 Thread Mark Murphy
t this thing zeroed out so I can get it to work as an HD? Mark M "Bruce Johnson" : Jul 27 04:47PM On Jul 27, 2020, at 7:13 AM, smac0031 mailto:m.smurph...@gmail.com>> wrote: I have a old Intel PowerMac with os 10.11. It wasn't compatible with my old Brother HL-1440 printe

Re: Digest for g3-5-list@googlegroups.com - 1 update in 1 topic

2018-06-03 Thread Mark Murphy
keyboards and a lot of other stuff in a big pile. Mark M. On Jun 3, 2018, at 6:55 AM, g3-5-list@googlegroups.com wrote: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Google Groups Topic digest View all topics My g5 won’t boot - 1 Update My g5 won’t boot smac0031 : Jun 02 06:34PM -0700 I put my g5 to sleep

Re: Network Troubles

2015-08-31 Thread Mark Murphy
Beats me. That was a quote from another email. Mark Sent from my iPhone On Aug 31, 2015, at 9:03 PM, Cameron Kaiser <spec...@floodgap.com> wrote: >> Software that's not compatible. TenFourFox is a great product, but it's >> still not completely compatible wit

Re: Network Troubles

2015-08-31 Thread Mark Murphy
, series 3 TiVo, the bluray and the charter had cable box should be ok. Thanks Mark Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 31, 2015, at 11:45 AM, Bruce Johnson <john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu> > wrote: > > >> On Aug 30, 2015, at 6:50 PM, Mark Murphy <m.smurph...@gmail.com> wr

Re: is there still a G3-5 list?

2013-06-22 Thread Mark Murphy
The last g3-5-list I have came through on June 10th. Weren't these things supposed to move to wordpress? On Jun 21, 2013, at 7:01 PM, janespra...@comcast.net wrote: Bruce, I went to Google Groups and can't find the G3-5 list. I sent this post to g3-5-list group g3-5-list@googlegroups.com:

Flashing ATI X1900xt for PowerMac G5.

2012-05-10 Thread Mark Langthorne
I have a ATI x1900xt PCIx that I pulled from an old PC and I read that they used to sell these cards for the G5 PowerMac. I have had a google around and can only find how to flash this card for the intel mac pro, has anybody had any success flashing this card for the powermac G5. Or can anybody

Re: Flashing ATI X1900xt for PowerMac G5.

2012-05-10 Thread Mark Langthorne
Yes I did. PCIe. On May 10, 12:30 pm, Mark Langthorne langthorne.m...@gmail.com wrote: I have a ATI x1900xt PCIx that I pulled from an old PC and I read that they used to sell these cards for the G5 PowerMac. I have had a google around and can only find how to flash this card for the intel

Re: HD remounts

2012-04-26 Thread mark ray
Had a similar problem with an iMac at work and it also would go to sleep at very spontaneous moments, typing, drawing, whatever it didn't matter just went to sleep, hit any key and it would come back. When the HD icon disappeared off the desktop, it would cause the drive to disappear from Disk

Re: Buying a G5

2012-02-20 Thread Mark Langthorne
I got my G5 from the same guy off eBay fatfreddie2004. It came quick and had a lot of software pre installed on it. On Feb 17, 2:49 pm, Avid_Fan spe...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All! I am in the market to upgrade to a Power Mac G5. I'm the proud owner of a G4 MDD Dual 867. I got a little stung

Re: PowerMac G5 not waking from sleep?

2012-02-15 Thread Mark Langthorne
and its been fine ever since sleep works as it should. Also the RAM is still in warranty so I can return it. Fingers crossed all them failed boots didn't do any damage to the power supply. On Feb 13, 1:02 pm, Mark Langthorne langthorne.m...@gmail.com wrote: Every time I put the Mac to sleep it cuts

Re: PowerMac G5 not waking from sleep?

2012-02-14 Thread Mark Langthorne
of waking the Mac when I try to boot I get a White and red light then click and off again no fans, so I unplug it for about 3 minutes plug back in and it boots normally. On Feb 14, 5:05 am, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 5:02 AM -0800 2/13/2012, Mark Langthorne wrote: Every time I put the Mac

PowerMac G5 not waking from sleep?

2012-02-13 Thread Mark Langthorne
Every time I put the Mac to sleep it cuts out when waking. Then I have to unplug it let it stand awhile then reboot it. Anybody have any ideas I have tried different configurations of ram to see if that was the issue but the same thing happens. This all started when I removed the CD drives IDE

Late 2005 PowerMac G5 CD drive issue.

2012-02-11 Thread Mark Langthorne
Yesterday I was cleaning some of the dust out of the Mac and I unplugged the CD drives' IDE cable while the Mac was on. I plugged it back and shutdown the machine, then it would not power up the light would come on for a second and the fans would spin a little then it would cut out at first I

Re: G5 issues

2012-02-11 Thread Mark Langthorne
Use Click to Flash plug in for Safari and avoid flash and set youtube videos to open in Quicktime. Videos will play fine and you have the option to download them. On Feb 5, 6:54 pm, JohnV vengbj...@verizon.net wrote: When  a wonderful 2.0GHz G5 (8G mem) failed. I moved the drives into a 1.8GHz

Re: G5 issues

2012-02-11 Thread Mark Langthorne
Its a setting in the Click to Flash plug in not in YouTube and I think its Safari only. On Feb 5, 9:15 pm, Mark Langthorne langthorne.m...@gmail.com wrote: Use Click to Flash plug in for Safari and avoid flash and set youtube videos to open in Quicktime. Videos will play fine and you have

codemeter

2011-10-11 Thread Mark
Why do I appear to have a USB drive called CODEMETER mounted on my computer? No, I do not have a USB drive mounted. It appears to be empty. I found the Wibu website. It says you actually need a USB drive. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using

Re: Upgrading to Lion

2011-08-04 Thread Mark
On 8/4/11 1:55 PM, peterh...@cruzio.com wrote: Is it true that you have to have SL to do the upgrade? No, it is NOT true. And NO, it is NOT an upgrade, it it actually an installer onto 10.6.8, and it can be made into a true installer, and ... indeed ... an installer which needs no other OS of

G5 turns off

2011-04-22 Thread Mark
ok, my dual 2.5ghz G5 just shut off. Like a power outage but nothing else shut off. It will not turn on. Let it sit for a minute. no joy. Any ideas? Some kinda fuse reset? Power supply? thanks -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and

Re: Motherboard and Memory Questions on recovered DAFir

2011-03-15 Thread Mark Murphy
I've tried swapping the sticks and the empty slots change depending on where I move them. Thanks. Mark Murphy On Mar 15, 2011, at 8:01 AM, Geke wrote: @Albert: The Digital Audio has this quirk that it has 3 physical RAM slots but 4 logical ones. @Mark: The DA does need 133MHz. What you can

Re: Motherboard and Memory Questions on recovered DAFir

2011-03-14 Thread Mark Murphy
J21 and J22 now have 133 ram and J23 shows empty. I think this is an improvement. Mark Murphy On Mar 14, 2011, at 9:55 AM, Albert Carter wrote: Mark, First thing I notice with this information is that the memory cannot possibly be all original. Just looking at the report on the RAM

Re: frivolous question

2011-01-25 Thread Mark Lavelle
a purchased product ($9.00) and doesn't run on Intel machines. Something for us PPC holdouts. Runs OK on my G4 MDD running Leopard. Mark Lavelle -- 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

Re: RJ 45 Aggravation Update

2010-12-22 Thread Mark Murphy
and is fully functional. Beats me. How many of the pairs does RJ 45 use? Anyway, the installation looks neat. The other main line I use works with all four pairs like its supposed to. Mark Murphy -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5

Re: how do i stop these emails its been a year now!!

2010-12-01 Thread Ellicott, Mark
IT's screwed up I'm in the same boat.I have sent out mass emails On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:59 PM, J.M.P.Hissel jo...@xs4all.nl wrote: On 30-11-2010 18:28, AJ, aja...@yahoo.com, wrote: I did the proper unsubscribe from the list. I also notified that I would like to be removed and

Re: MIDI

2010-10-06 Thread Mark
Illirik Smirnov wrote: Simple question: Do any powermacs* that are capable of running Audacity* have MIDI ports? I would splurge and get $10 for a connector for my G5, but I have access to pretty much every model of PMac if I ask nicely enough. http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list

G5 coolant leak

2010-09-28 Thread Mark
I think I might have a leaky G5. Haven't looked inside yet but I smelled hot electric a few hours after I heard a dripping sound in a room with nothing that should drip. The window was open however. guess I should see something inside when I open it up? what ? Any idea what fixing it will cost

Digital Audio won't boot into OS9

2010-09-25 Thread Mark Murphy
I was under the impression that you needed 9.2.2 to operate under OSX. I ran 9.2.1 for a while not realizing I wasn't running the latest and last version of os9. I didn't start having problems at first. It took me a while to realize I was running the wrong version of OS9. Later on I

Apple cinema display 20

2010-09-02 Thread Mark Bassett
Hello. Im getting the cinema display for my g4 mdd. I was wondering if you all had a link to the adapter i need to also use it on my pc with standard dvi Mark On 9/2/10, g3-5-list+nore...@googlegroups.com g3-5-list+nore...@googlegroups.com wrote

Re: two macs plugged into the same usb hub?

2010-08-29 Thread mark ray
devices simultaneously is not possible. I can print/scan with one computer then switch to the other no problems. No software/drivers needed, just plug it in (including power cord) and it works. Hope this helps. Have the best day yet, mark ray bluellama...@embarqmail.com -- You received

Re: Mysterious bump in transfer speed?

2010-08-08 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
the sl thing on a ppc, i had to re-install the q emulator thing because i updated, and it had a kp and won't boot. it will take an unknown amount of time to install.. -- It's anyway, anyhow, anywhere you choose it. -Me Sent from my Power Mac G4 Sawtooth -- You received this message because you

Re: Whatever happened to RAM disks?

2010-08-07 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
ithink we have a misunderstanding here. I increase my RAM to it's max, but i use flash disks to store info instead of using ram disks to store programs. -- It's anyway, anyhow, anywhere you choose it. -Me Sent from my Power Mac G4 Sawtooth -- You received this message because you are a member

Re: Whatever happened to RAM disks?

2010-08-07 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
i completely understand what you said. I was referring to virtual RAM. i was wondering if there is a way to completely turn off virtual memory to increase system performance on a mac. RAM on the other hand, most of my computers have it to their limits. -- It's anyway, anyhow, anywhere you choose

Re: Mysterious bump in transfer speed?

2010-08-07 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
look, can you stop running around and teasing people like this? it is because of people like you we can't trust or ask questions. You happen when i ask questions. that SL on a ppc thing was real. this mysterious bump in transfer speed is different, however. the drive i was using had this Bump

Mysterious bump in transfer speed?

2010-08-04 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Hello, everybody I have an external 2.5 drive sitting inside my PM G4 plugged in through USB 2.0 (A PCI card) and normally, whenever I transfer things between the Main system HDD and the external 320GB HDD, the transfer speed is literally 500Kb/s. For some reason, yesterday, when I restarted,

Re: Mysterious bump in transfer speed?

2010-08-04 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Is it hotwired or something? I wouldn't lie and post something this stupid just to get attention, because this really happened. -- Sent from Mark's Power Mac G4 Sawtooth PowerPC G4 7400 -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and

Re: Mysterious bump in transfer speed?

2010-08-04 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
I didn't make an alias It is the full ISO image. -- Sent from Mark's Power Mac G4 Sawtooth PowerPC G4 7400 -- 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

Re: Apple Mail problem?

2010-08-03 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
I have the same problem on my PM g4 sawtooth. Either get an update to the program, delete it an replace it with another copy, or just use time machine to Go back in time using the Leopard copy and everything should work. If all fails like what i said here, i will do some extensive research to

Re: OS 9 Apps on G5

2010-08-03 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Yeah, like I said there is almost no way you'll be able to get OS 9 to work on a G5. Even if you install on a G4 or a G3 and transplant the HDD to a G5, it still won't boor because a G5 is 64-bit, and OS 9 only has 32 bit code in it. Try it, but no guarantee. Try CCC. --  From Mark's PM G4

Re: G5 2.7 upgrade to Quad Core?

2010-07-25 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
There is a very slim chance this will work, as it all depends on whether the processor is compatible, the CPU bus speed, and if the machine will accept it. I tried putting a dual 500Mhz in my other 400Mhz sawtooth, and no luck came around. I'm not saying it's impossible, i'm saying I have had too

ESata to Sata help...

2010-07-18 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Hello everybody, i bought an external enclosure for my 320GB seagate drive about 2 months ago, and then received anther one from tyler. I have the 320GB Seagate in the enclosure right now, and while I was in the process of plugging in the new 320GB Sata drive I got, i couldn't help to notice that

Re: A G5 upgrade

2010-07-17 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
If you need to, get a larger HDD. 320GB is good, but the more, the better. RAM upgrades is always an option, since more RAM memory can make a computer faster.  Sent from my Power Mac G4 Sawtooth -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4,

Re: plain text please

2010-07-17 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Here is a bigger version of the Monster text Apple logo. No, it's not a picture, it's just a bigger Apple logo.  Sent from my Power Mac G4 Sawtooth -- 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

Re: Change machine specific installer requirements

2010-07-17 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
is it illegal to put Mac OS X on unsupported machines? For example, If I tricked the OF to install Leopard on a G4 Sawtooth or tricked the OF to install tiger on a Bondi Blue iMac with no firewire, is that illegal? Note: I bought the legit stuff and used it on the machines.  Sent from my

Re: Best DVD burners?

2010-07-13 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
I have had the same problem whenever I burn dvds, even at lower speeds, it still has trouble. I was wondering if it was some kind of format error, but I checked through disk utility on my beige G3 and i knew you were right. I did burn at a lower speed and it worked, but still sometimes the DVD

Re: Online backup ??

2010-07-08 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
I never worry about third party stuff and other companies, ever. I just buy myself a 320GB 2.5 SATA drive, put it in a USB 2.0 SATA enclosure, and back up to there. Never once in my life will I trust backing up to the internet unless the computer it's backing up to on the internet is mine. I know

Re: MiniStack Reviews, Experiences?

2010-07-08 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Mine has locked up (I had to unplug it and re-plug it) and sometimes whenever I tried to copy stuff to it, my Mac had a window pop-up with a sad old world mac logo and it said The hard drive you are trying to copy to is being an asshole. Kick it so it can work. I made this dialog window possible

Re: Online backup ??

2010-07-08 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Blast radius? What's that gonna be a data and secret exposure to other people? XD --  Sent from my Power mac G4 Sawtooth. -- 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

Re: MiniStack Reviews, Experiences?

2010-07-08 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
It said the external drive was having connectivity problems I replaced the cable. nothing. I replaced the entire thing later, everything was okay. --  Sent from my Power mac G4 Sawtooth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4,

I need your attention.....

2010-07-08 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
I understand that an ATI Radeon 9550 with 256MB of VRAM is incompatible with PPC Macs, but I am going to take a 9800 ROM and edit it. Once I am done, the ROM will be ready for usage if anyone ever dreamed of putting a 9550 in a Mac. --  Sent from my Power mac G4 Sawtooth. -- You received

I need help with my video card! =(

2010-07-08 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Hello, I am Mark, the one who has recently successfully flashed an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro with 128MB of RAM to a Mac, but there's some problems I've been having. Whenever I enter the time machine, the graphics are animated and everything moves as in i was in space, but then again a bunch of lines

Re: Online backup ??

2010-07-08 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
CCC has served me pretty well since whenever i use time machine my video card draws lines all over the screen and freezes until I exit out of time machine. My suggestions are: 1) Never use online backup, because the storage volume could be thrown away or bought out by another company 2) Use a

Re: G4 MDD won't boot frm FW

2010-07-07 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
I'm very glad I have a sawtooh, or rather 2 sawtooth computers, that way, I don't need a special installer to install OS 9 or a special ROM. --  Sent from my Power mac G4 Sawtooth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop

I would like to flash this video card!

2010-07-07 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
I have dug around a little deeper in my place and found an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro with 128MB of VRAM. I tried my other cards by doing research online, and none of them would work. How about this one for a Power Mac G4 Sawtooth? --  Sent from my Power mac G4 Sawtooth. -- You received this message

i need help building this mac

2010-07-06 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
I have a case of a quicksilver, but the parts of a G3 beige desktop. I was fed up at how old the casing of the G3 beige looked, so I took the entire G3 apart, and I am attempting to put the parts in the G4 quicksilver case, but the G3 power supply box won't fit. I tried an ATX power supply box,

Re: Leopard is sloooooow to boot...

2010-07-06 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Leopard will add an extra 5 minutes to boot if you use an AGP PNY/Nvidia GeForce 6200 with 256MB of RAM. The graphics will be very fast if you use this card, but it seems to me that there is a Kext file in the system that is making your system boot for such a long time. My Power Mac G4 Sawtooth

Re: Leopard is sloooooow to boot...

2010-07-06 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
If I added the Login automatically as my user in system preferences in Leopard and restared, it would take me about 25-40 seconds to load from the beginning to the desktop. Here are my Sawtooth's specs: Power Mac G4 Sawtooth 400GB HDD space (320GB SATA, 80GB main HDD) PowerPC G4 @400Mhz 2048MB

Re: Leopard is sloooooow to boot...

2010-07-06 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
By the way, my Ultradrive (as i call it) is not only a DVD/CD/Blu-ray/Lightscribe reader, it's also a burner. --  Sent from my Power mac G4 Sawtooth. -- 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

Re: G4 MDD won't boot frm FW

2010-07-06 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
That is so weird, I had the same story on my sawtooth where leopard crashed on a 320GB SATA HDD. Re-install the OS. --  Sent from my Power mac G4 Sawtooth. -- 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

Re: time machine back ups

2010-07-05 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
On my sawtooth, I have a 320GB SATA (plugged into a USB 2.0 PCI Card) drive plugged in for my time machine backups, and I really have to constantly delete my backups, because I copied some of my data on it one day and I had around 290.8GB free. The next day I woke up, The drive only had 187.9GB

Re: G5 1.8 PPC memory RAM Question???

2010-07-05 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Of course! Try it out, since the 2 machines are similar. --  Sent from my Power mac G4 Sawtooth. -- 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

Re: Video Card Upgrade Info Please

2010-07-05 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Core image is the very center of the graphics on Mac OS X. If the video card doesn't support it, well then, I guess you can kiss fast graphics goodbye. As for quartz extreme, i don't know too much about it, but I know for a fact that any video card that doesn't support it will make the graphics

Re: I need networking help

2010-06-30 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
I have fully taken a clamshell apart before, and from that experience, I know I never want to do that ahain. It doesn't have 512MB of RAM though, it has 544MB. --  Sent from my Power mac G4 Sawtooth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using

Re: POOCH Clustering Question

2010-06-30 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Where do I download this? please i need this. --  Sent from my Power mac G4 Sawtooth. -- 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

Re: Video Card Upgrade Info Please

2010-06-29 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
It is actually an okay-ish card. if you want something that doesn't go slow, this is a good choice. Don't rely way too heavily on this, because it's only 128MB of video RAM. On a scale from 1 to 10, it is a 4. I am going to get my Nvidia GeForce 6200 GT card with 256MB of VRAM flashed to my

Re: I need networking help

2010-06-29 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
I have used XpostFacto to install Mac OS X Jaguar on my PM 9600, and the network problem is ok now. It can see the HDD now. The external HDD was on a computer running Leopard. How can a computer running OS9 see a network drive on a Leopard computer? --  Sent from my Power mac G4 Sawtooth. --

Re: I need networking help

2010-06-29 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
CCC never worked for me as the OS itself would not boot. Also, I don't feel like getting through all of those screws just to get to the hard drive. --  Sent from my Power mac G4 Sawtooth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5

Re: G5 iMac

2010-06-29 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
126F? That is crazy! My PM G4 Sawtooth's PowerPC G4 processor runs an average of 73F. IDK why, but it's like that. I have a thermal sensor next to the processor. --  Sent from my Power mac G4 Sawtooth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using

Re: G5 iMac

2010-06-29 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
My sawtooth is 73F when turned on. --  Sent from my Power mac G4 Sawtooth. -- 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://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml

Re: G5 iMac

2010-06-29 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
5 blue LED fans and a hydrogen cooled system is in there =) --  Sent from my Power mac G4 Sawtooth. -- 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

Re: I need networking help

2010-06-28 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Here are the errors i get. It simply does not see the sawtooth, or any computer running Mac OS X or their HDD volumes. I took your advice and upgraded the machine using the OS 9 helper and brought it up to OS 9.2.2, and I have noticed something. I booted my iBook clamshell to OS9.0, and the PM

I need networking help

2010-06-27 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
hello users of Lem's G3-G5 list, I have a networking problem that I have been trying to resolve since the early half of june. On my PM G4 Sawtooth, I have a 320GB SATA drive plugged in through firewire, and I have the entire network of Mac OS X Systems being able to see it. I have other computers

Re: I need networking help

2010-06-27 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Btw, any computer i have that runs Mac OS X can see it, but Mac OS 9 and earlier can't. --  Sent from my Power mac G4 Sawtooth. -- 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

I need help flashing a video card

2010-06-27 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Hello again, everyone. I am trying to find a download link to flash my Nvidia GeForce 6200 AGP card onto my sawtooth, but sp far, the website that has all of the Rom's for the video cards isn't useful. Here are the exact specs of the video card i want to put on my sawtooth: PNY Technologies, inc.

Re: I need networking help

2010-06-27 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Whoa! Hold on a second! I am running happily with Leopard on my PM G4 Sawtooth, but you're thinking about putting leopard on a G3! That is the last thing I would do right now, but the first thing I would try if I am simply done with my G3 iMac. with some mods, would Leopard run on (let's say...)

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: iLife 08 on 933mhz PM QS

2010-06-21 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
If you want to trick the installer into thinking you have a PowerPC G4 processor with some serious processor speed, follow this: (This is going to mod this info on open firmware until you restart telling the Mac OS X system that you have a faster processor when in reality you don't to fool the

Re: iLife 08 on 933mhz PM QS

2010-06-21 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
you know what i did with this OF command? I restarted and played around with it, turns out i added way too many zero's to the script where i set the processor frequency. When i loaded up to the desktop, do you know what my about this mac window reported? A 83Thz (That's Terahertz, 1000Ghz=

Re: OSX is a 32-bit operating system?? is this true??

2010-06-19 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
I've noticed something. The government keeps us out of all of their little secrets. 64-bit is not ever close to being new. The standard computer out there today in best buy is 64-bit, while back in the 1960's the world's first 64-bit computer was overly protected by the government and was operated

Re: OMG I NEED HELP!

2010-06-17 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Problem solved: I re-installed Leopard. I checked the logs, it said it could not boot from leopard (the old copy of leopard i had before it crashed) because of a bad HDD. OMG really? So i went out and bought myself a new 80GB EIDE HDD. Btw, I did lose all of my old programs, but i can just

OMG I NEED HELP!

2010-06-16 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
I had Mac OS X 10.5.8 on my PM G4, and I updated it to the 2010-004 security update. Since I had 3 Os's on my PM G4, it automatically booted up into Mac OS X Jaguar, and it told me to restart. Now I can't fix leopard and it loads up with the frey apple logo and spinning wheel for like forever! --

IDK how to flash a video card

2010-06-16 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
I have been an expert on computers since the dawn of the DOS systems, and this is something i really am stumped on. 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? I really am

Re: to scsi or not to scsi?

2010-06-16 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
SCSI may be older, but it is built on faster technology. SATA is a bit cheaper and a bit slower. I have the charts on my system. On my PM G4 sawtooth, I have 2 tested drives plugged in. One's a 320GB EDIE plugged in through SCSI through an SCSI to EIDE adapter, and the other is the same version

Re: OMG I NEED HELP!

2010-06-16 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
this is bad. I used leopard assist to install leopard o my computer, and when i booted up into the leopard installer, it said that my HDD with leopard on it has bad sectors. The area which had bad sectors was quarantined into a different sector, and now, i lost all my data. My backups were on that

Re: New unibody Mac Mini (was Re: Apple Store closed for update)

2010-06-15 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
I know alot of the macs don't have peripheral ports in the front, but why not hide them behind a tab or slider like the Dell optiplex series computers or the Hp a418x computer? How about Alienware towers? --  Sent from my Power mac G4 Sawtooth. -- You received this message because you are a

Re: G3 Lime iMac and 10.4 instal CD

2010-06-15 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Look in the archives and check my postings. You will see that I explained that all PowerPC macs with USB can boot from USB. (except for beige systems and powerbooks before the G3 era.) I have successfully installed Mac OS X tiger on a blue (not indigo) iMac G3 @350Mhz with 512MB of RAM through my

Re: G3 Lime iMac and 10.4 instal CD

2010-06-15 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
You know what? Don't explain a bunch of stuff to him that he might not want to know. It's helpful, i thank you for that, but he wants Mac OS X tiger re-installed on his system. i have a better idea. Pull out the HDD out of the lime iMac G3, put it in another iMac G3 (or how about I install tiger

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?

2010-06-14 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
I will re do the cideo, but because of the 4GB of RAM change, the Jaguar system constantly tells me to restart the system over and over again. I tried reverting back to 2GB of RAM, and still, it tells me to restart. i don't know what is going on. Any suggestions? --  Sent from my Power mac G4

Re: Jaguar not booting up

2010-06-14 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
I zapped the PRAM already. It goes like this. I turn it on, the Apple logo shows up. The grey wheel spins until the Mac OS X window with a light blue Apple ahows up and says Loading Mac OS X and after the window disappears or is done loading, the screen turns a darker shade of blue and it says you

Re: Jaguar not booting up

2010-06-14 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Ok, I will try the shift button at start and see what happens. On 6/14/10, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 8:33 AM -0400 6/14/2010, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: I zapped the PRAM already. It goes like this. I turn it on, the Apple logo shows up. The grey wheel spins until the Mac OS X window

Mac OS X Tiger commercial idea

2010-06-14 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
I have an idea that may be 5 years too late. I watched a Mac OS X tiger commercial, and then the next day I happened to run across Eye of the tiger by surviver on my iPod nano. Wouldn't it bee cool if back then they could make a commercial about Mac OS X tiger with the eye of the tiger song in the

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?

2010-06-14 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Okay. I will have the video posted on youtube in a while. In the meantime I have to resolve issues with Jaguar not working properly and to re-install Mac OS X SL on Q because i did not back up my info. What a bummer. I will get it running soon. I can handle the problem with SL on a Q emulator, i

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?

2010-06-13 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Like I said, you don't have to believe me if you don't want to. If You don't believe, than good for you. Everyone's different. If you look at my evidence in the face and say that it's fake or a scam, well then, oh well. I really don't care. For those of you who know this is real, thank you for

Re: weird USB - Firewire bridge

2010-06-13 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
It might stop working after a while, but it won't blow up. This is what usually happens to really cheap computer stuff. --  Sent from my Power mac G4 Sawtooth. -- 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

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?/ RICH Text

2010-06-13 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
yourself that you just made Leopard look like SL. On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Mark Sokolovsky mailto: coolmar...@gmail.comcoolmar...@gmail.com wrote: Heh. Really, it's not worth it now. people like you ruined my amazing discovery. -- • Sent from my Power mac G4 Sawtooth

Re: weird USB - Firewire bridge

2010-06-13 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Here's a good question. If i have a USB 2.0 external HDD and plug in the FW adapter, will it run at full firewire speed? --  Sent from my Power mac G4 Sawtooth. -- 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

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?

2010-06-13 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Well why didn't I think of that earlier? I'll have the video posted on July 9, 2010, because I am going on vacation. I will be back to post the video. --  Sent from my Power mac G4 Sawtooth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and

Jaguar not booting up

2010-06-13 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
i recently installed a fresh copy of Mac OS X jaguar on my system since my old copy of jaguar crashed (due to the 4GB memory switch) and it keeps on telling me to restart the system every time i boot up into jaguar. Any suggestions? leopard works fine, but i use jaguar because of the fact that

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?

2010-06-12 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Here is that proof you wanted. Please, after you watch it, don't bug me about this subject ever again. I started what i thought would be an interesting conversation, but all i got is Fed up from other people annoying me with It's fake comments. Since iMovie wasn't compatible with the videos i

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?

2010-06-12 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
restart, I then shut it off. I plugged in the 4 1GB Low profile modules, and it started up. I had the Question mark over the folder icon flashing, So I installed the lightest version of Mac OS X that the Application can run on, Mac OS X Jaguar. I installed Q emulator, emulated the (PC only) intel

Re: Will PowerPC be forever obsolete?

2010-06-12 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
It's simple. I donot have 10.6.3 on the machine itself. I have it installed as a Virtual system inside an emulation program. You see, the 'flaw you considered wasn't actually a flaw. The reason why it says Mac OS X 10.6.3 and powerPC G4 @400mhz in the same window, is because i took the system

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