Re: Help needed for Mac Powerbook M7572, reload

2011-01-24 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 24, 2011, at 5:03 PM, Wm. Arnold wrote: I did a dumb thing, I wiped the hard drive of this computer instead of writing all 0's. This doesn't make sense because writing all 0's is wiping the hard drive. You meant you wrote all zeros and wiped the HD. Now I can't reload an operating

Re: Help needed for Mac Powerbook M7572, reload

2011-01-24 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
Mac OS10.3.2 Panther then OSX10.4 Tiger, both of which I have. Any help will be appreciated. Wm. in Bay Village, Ohio ___ If you low-level formatted it it is now a paper weight. Just forget it and get another. I am speaking from experience

Re: Help needed for Mac Powerbook M7572, reload

2011-01-24 Thread Miguel Garcia-Gell
experts, I did a dumb thing, I wiped the hard drive of this computer instead of writing all 0's. Now I can't reload an operating system. I have tried several ways including using an external DVD reader. I want to reload Mac OS10.3.2 Panther then OSX10.4 Tiger, both of which I have. Any help

Re: help, i'm going deaf!

2011-01-19 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
Hi Jeff Daile. What have you got the Skype volume control set at? If it was set very low then you would have to turn up the system volume up to be able to hear Skype calls. I normally have my Skype volume control about halfway, and system volume about 3/4 and this works. HTH, Dan -- You

Re: help, i'm going deaf!

2011-01-19 Thread Deiniol ap Deiniol
Hi Jeff Daile. What have you got the Skype volume control set at? If it was set very low then you would have to turn up the system volume up to be able to hear Skype calls. I normally have my Skype volume control about halfway, and system volume about 3/4 and this works. HTH, Dan -- You

Re: help, i'm going deaf!

2011-01-19 Thread Doug McNutt
At 21:17 -0800 1/18/11, Jeffrey Daile Engle wrote: On Jan 18, 2011, at 8:40 PM, Yersinia wrote: On 1/18/11 10:59 PM, Jeffrey Daile Engle wrote: hThen when the chat is over, heaven forbid if I had itunes playing a song earlier, because the song is now 1400 decimals!! ...decimals?!

help, i'm going deaf!

2011-01-18 Thread Jeffrey Daile Engle
here's the problem... While using my powermac G5, I use ichat, skype and other video conferencing software. When I get an invite to chat, I have to turn my (system) volume way up to hear the caller. Then when the chat is over, heaven forbid if I had itunes playing a song earlier, because the

Re: help, i'm going deaf!

2011-01-18 Thread Bruce
Jeffrey Daile Engle wrote: here's the problem... While using my powermac G5, I use ichat, skype and other video conferencing software. When I get an invite to chat, I have to turn my (system) volume way up to hear the caller. Then when the chat is over, heaven forbid if I had itunes

Re: help, i'm going deaf!

2011-01-18 Thread Tina K.
On 2011/01/18 20:59, Jeffrey Daile Engle so eloquently wrote: While using my powermac G5, I use ichat, skype and other video conferencing software. When I get an invite to chat, I have to turn my (system) volume way up to hear the caller. Then when the chat is over, heaven forbid if I had

Re: help, i'm going deaf!

2011-01-18 Thread Yersinia
On 1/18/11 10:59 PM, Jeffrey Daile Engle wrote: hThen when the chat is over, heaven forbid if I had itunes playing a song earlier, because the song is now 1400 decimals!! ...decimals?! ROFLMAO I didn't know numbers could be so earsplitting.ROFL!!! (I trust you meant decibels...

Re: help, i'm going deaf!

2011-01-18 Thread Jeffrey Daile Engle
On Jan 18, 2011, at 8:40 PM, Yersinia wrote: On 1/18/11 10:59 PM, Jeffrey Daile Engle wrote: hThen when the chat is over, heaven forbid if I had itunes playing a song earlier, because the song is now 1400 decimals!! ...decimals?! ROFLMAO I didn't know numbers could be so

Re: Help Me Please!

2011-01-01 Thread Stephen Conrad
64036 The time has come for mankind to grow up and leave its cradle behind; to go forth and claim our place in outer space. - Capt. Henry Gloval (\__/) (='.'=) ()_() Help Bunny Take Over The World! -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group

Re: Help Me Please!

2010-12-31 Thread Nestamicky
On an unrelated note, I'm seeing some new names here now. I really have been gone a while...group's still very much vibrant. On 29/12/10 7:52 AM, Stephen Conrad wrote: OK, 2 questions 1) Kitty dumped Diet Pepsi on my (Mac) USB KB. How should I clean it so it can be sued again? In the

Re: Help Me Please!

2010-12-31 Thread Nestamicky
On 30/12/10 9:30 AM, ah...clem wrote: a dishwasher uses 40 gallons of hot water (heating requires energy) to clean dishes that could be washed more thoroughly by hand using only 2 gallons of water. You have not counted the amount of water used at pre-wash before the dishes are thrown in. What a

Re: Help Me Please!

2010-12-31 Thread Nestamicky
On 31/12/10 8:01 AM, John Carmonne wrote: As far as the green crap goes the waste of the compnent contributes a lot more wasted energy than the renewable water and electricity you use. BTW use the top rack away from the heating and drying coil. Come on John, show some respect. Calling

Re: Help Me Please!

2010-12-31 Thread Tom
THE dishwasher.  as if everyone has one handy.  to some folks, save the environment is more than a feel good bumpersticker to put on their Hummer.  a dishwasher uses 40 gallons of hot water (heating requires energy) to clean dishes that could be washed more thoroughly by hand using only 2

[Closing Thread] Re: Help Me Please!

2010-12-31 Thread Fabian Fang
On Dec 31, 2010, at 10:11 AM, Tom wrote: If you want to go the absolute easiest on the environment, don't wash your dishes at all. Lick them clean. Reminds me of that actress who says you should never use more than one square of toilet paper, to save trees. I can't remember her name, but her

Re: Help Me Please!

2010-12-31 Thread Tina K.
On 2010/12/29 08:45, Dan wrote: The answer is to use the proper command diskutil eject devicename If for some reason you don't know the proper device name, and it is a tray-loading ODD, you can use: drutil tray open drutil tray close Tina -- You received this message because you are a

Re: Help Me Please!

2010-12-30 Thread ah...clem
On Dec 29, 6:33 pm, Judith Berkowitz sfjb...@mac.com wrote: It sounds extreme, but a very effective way to clear keyboard spills is to put the kb upside down on the upper rack of the dishwasher and run it through a cycle. Dry it out thoroughly, as others have advised, and it's perfectly fine.

Re: Help Me Please!

2010-12-30 Thread ah...clem
On Dec 29, 2:21 pm, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: Two days? Two weeks? ROFL Water apparently takes a long time to evaporate in some areas on the planet!  I guess it's kind of like the way electrons flow at different speeds off motherboards, when people are told to pull their PRAM

Re: Help Me Please!

2010-12-30 Thread Jeff Bequette
On Dec 29, 2010, at 1:21 PM, Dan wrote: At 8:03 PM +0100 12/29/2010, Erik Harperink wrote: Spiliing coke: rinse in water (yes, detach keyboard !) and for the time being leave to try in a warm spot for at least two weeks. Dry the keyboard, and leave it for 2 days in a warm spot. 2 weeks is

Help Me Please!

2010-12-29 Thread Stephen Conrad
key ejects CDs? If that does not work how can I manually eject this CD? -- Steve Conrad Henrietta, MO 64036 The time has come for mankind to grow up and leave its cradle behind; to go forth and claim our place in outer space. - Capt. Henry Gloval (\__/) (='.'=) ()_() Help

Re: Help Me Please!

2010-12-29 Thread Erik Harperink
Op 29-dec-2010, om 15:52 heeft Stephen Conrad het volgende geschreven: OK, 2½ questions 1) Kitty dumped Diet Pepsi on my (Mac) USB KB. How should I clean it so it can be used again? which key combo do I use to reboot? 2) I tried to eject a CD and no go. Which key ejects CDs? If that

Re: Help Me Please!

2010-12-29 Thread Stephen Conrad
come for mankind to grow up and leave its cradle behind; to go forth and claim our place in outer space. - Capt. Henry Gloval (\__/) (='.'=) ()_() Help Bunny Take Over The World! -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4

Re: Help Me Please!

2010-12-29 Thread Erik Harperink
Op 29-dec-2010, om 16:19 heeft Stephen Conrad het volgende geschreven: On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Erik Harperink hbharper...@quicknet.nl wrote: Op 29-dec-2010, om 15:52 heeft Stephen Conrad het volgende geschreven: OK, 2½ questions 1) Kitty dumped Diet Pepsi on my (Mac) USB KB. How

Re: Help Me Please!

2010-12-29 Thread John Carmonne
On Dec 29, 2010, at 6:52 AM, Stephen Conrad wrote: OK, 2 questions 1) Kitty dumped Diet Pepsi on my (Mac) USB KB. How should I clean it so it can be sued again? In the meantime I am on a new Logitech K120 USb KB. On this beastie (actually it is rather nice) which key combo

Re: Help Me Please!

2010-12-29 Thread Dan
At 8:52 AM -0600 12/29/2010, Stephen Conrad wrote: 1) Kitty dumped Diet Pepsi on my (Mac) USB KB. How should I clean it so it can be sued again? Yea, that's right, blame it on the cat. Let's face it - you're *terrible* staff. If you'd been doing your job you would have been petting her

Re: Help Me Please!

2010-12-29 Thread Dan
At 4:23 PM +0100 12/29/2010, Erik Harperink wrote: Again go to the terminal and type eject (root) or sudo eject as normal user. Neither ejected the CD-ROM I'll post your question on the MacFreak discussion forum and see if anyone else can come up with an answer. The answer is to use the

Re: Help Me Please!

2010-12-29 Thread Stephen Conrad
our place in outer space. - Capt. Henry Gloval (\__/) (='.'=) ()_() Help Bunny Take Over The World! -- 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

Re: Help Me Please!

2010-12-29 Thread Dan
At 7:02 AM -0800 12/29/2010, John Carmonne wrote: Here is a good link if the keyboard is clear Pro Keyboard. I also soak in 99.9% alcohol and give plenty of dry time. A good point there. Daubing spots with rubbing alcohol, plus dry time, is ok. But to really do the job heavily, rubbing

Re: Help Me Please!

2010-12-29 Thread James Therrault
On Dec 29, 2010, at 9:55 AM, Dan wrote: At 7:02 AM -0800 12/29/2010, John Carmonne wrote: Here is a good link if the keyboard is clear Pro Keyboard. I also soak in 99.9% alcohol and give plenty of dry time. A good point there. Daubing spots with rubbing alcohol, plus dry time, is ok.

Re: Help Me Please!

2010-12-29 Thread iJohn
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Stephen Conrad khel...@gmail.com wrote: 2) I tried to eject a CD and no go. Which key ejects CDs? If that does not work how can I manually eject this CD? A while back (August ??) someone had a post on the G-3-5-list which explained how to add an eject icon to

Re: Help Me Please!

2010-12-29 Thread iJohn
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 11:44 AM, iJohn zjboyguard-ggro...@yahoo.com wrote: As for rebooting, I'm confused. Does pressing the power on/off button no longer bring up the shutdown dialog? DUH! I'm an idiot. Here I am explaining how to add an eject icon to the menu bar and I completely forget that

Re: Help Me Please!

2010-12-29 Thread dc
On Dec 29, 9:52 am, Stephen Conrad khel...@gmail.com wrote: I tried to eject a CD and no go. Which key ejects CDs? If that does not work how can I manually eject this CD? The easiest way is to put the Eject icon in your menubar, then you can easily control the open/close/eject functions.

RE: Help Me Please!

2010-12-29 Thread Eric Volker
-Original Message- From: Stephen Conrad khel...@gmail.com Sent: December 29, 2010 8:52 AM To: g3-5-list g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Help Me Please! OK, 2 questions 1) Kitty dumped Diet Pepsi on my (Mac) USB KB. How should I clean it so it can be sued again?      In the meantime

Re: Help Me Please!

2010-12-29 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 29, 2010, at 10:06 AM, Eric Volker wrote: 2) I tried to eject a CD and no go. Which key ejects CDs? If that does not work how can I manually eject this CD? I believe that on a non-Apple keyboard, holding down the F12 key will eject the CD. Don't just press it-you need to

Re: Help Me Please!

2010-12-29 Thread Erik Harperink
Op 29-dec-2010, om 15:52 heeft Stephen Conrad het volgende geschreven: OK, 2 questions 1) Kitty dumped Diet Pepsi on my (Mac) USB KB. How should I clean it so it can be sued again? In the meantime I am on a new Logitech K120 USb KB. On this beastie (actually it is rather nice) which

Re: Help Me Please!

2010-12-29 Thread Dan
At 8:03 PM +0100 12/29/2010, Erik Harperink wrote: Spiliing coke: rinse in water (yes, detach keyboard !) and for the time being leave to try in a warm spot for at least two weeks. Dry the keyboard, and leave it for 2 days in a warm spot. 2 weeks is indeed a long time... Two days? Two weeks?

Re: Help Me Please!

2010-12-29 Thread Andrew Liu Anderson
Stephen Conrad wrote: 1) Kitty dumped Diet Pepsi on my (Mac) USB KB. How should I clean it so it can be sued again? I don't believe that US law allows one to file suit against a keyboard. ;-) Smart-arse, Drew -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for

Re: Help Me Please!

2010-12-29 Thread John Martz
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Erik Harperink hbharper...@quicknet.nl wrote: A new keyboard ($ 30) may be an easier fix in these circumstances. Not sure if these are a match for what the OP needs, but amazon marketplace has some sellers offering used keyboards for $15-$20 (And for more of

Re: Help Me Please!

2010-12-29 Thread Judith Berkowitz
On Dec 29, 6:52 am, Stephen Conrad khel...@gmail.com wrote: 1) Kitty dumped Diet Pepsi on my (Mac) USB KB. How should I clean it so it can be sued again? The good part is that it's a diet drink - no sugar. It sounds extreme, but a very effective way to clear keyboard spills is to put the kb

Re: Help Me Please!

2010-12-29 Thread John Carmonne
It sounds extreme, but a very effective way to clear keyboard spills is to put the kb upside down on the upper rack of the dishwasher and run it through a cycle. Dry it out thoroughly, as others have advised, and it's perfectly fine. The dishwasher works fine for me if I disassemble the

Re: Help Me Please!

2010-12-29 Thread Mama Haymes
Hey wipe it down real good, and take a cloth with water (damp) and clean the soda off, then let it dry good. It should work fine.  --- On Wed, 12/29/10, Andrew Liu Anderson ma...@lonepineradio.net wrote: From: Andrew Liu Anderson ma...@lonepineradio.net Subject: Re: Help Me Please! To: g3-5

Re: Help - what does this mean?

2010-12-19 Thread pdimage
On 19/12/10 03:27, Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.net wrote: Good info. I have a ATI Radeon 9800 Pro ME, and was wondering if the cooling fan ever fails, will I get a similar warning? No - the warning is just for the 12v power connection to the card. However, the fan is easy to replace

Help - what does this mean?

2010-12-18 Thread DLC
Greetings all, I little help in discerning a splash page on boot-up I've not seen before. I gave my daughter an upgraded G4 Quicksilver (1.5GHz single CPU, running leopard). It has an ATI Radeon card in it, a rather nice one iirc, 9500, w/ 256Mb RAM. She sent me a cell phone photo of a picture she

Re: Help - what does this mean?

2010-12-18 Thread Ted Treen
DLC wrote: Quick Update; I had my daughter reset the motherboard - so far, it worked. Still curious about the splash screen - I can send anyone a pict if you're at all curious yourself. Thanks, Dana On Dec 18, 12:43 pm, DLCdlcatft...@frontier.com wrote: Greetings all, I little help

Re: Help - what does this mean?

2010-12-18 Thread Kris Tilford
On Dec 18, 2010, at 2:23 PM, Ted Treen wrote: I have seen a similar splash screen, but when a Radeon 9800 was fitted, and its direct power lead (to the 9800, that is) wasn't connected. Yeah, this makes sense, the power lead is red, indicating a problem. That's pretty cool that the ATI

Re: Help - what does this mean?

2010-12-18 Thread Dana Collins
is red, indicating a problem. That's pretty cool that the ATI card can override the boot and stop it until its power is correctly configured. I've got a 9800 but I've never seen this boot screen. Yes to both Kris and Ted's response - with the help of some more description from my daughter we traced

Re: Help - what does this mean?

2010-12-18 Thread Bill Connelly
connected. Yeah, this makes sense, the power lead is red, indicating a problem. That's pretty cool that the ATI card can override the boot and stop it until its power is correctly configured. I've got a 9800 but I've never seen this boot screen. Yes to both Kris and Ted's response - with the help

Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop

2010-12-03 Thread Al Poulin
One possible trick to retrieve data, place unit in freezer overnight and try again. Also, look at this thread in the leopardlist: http://groups.google.com/group/leopardlist/browse_thread/thread/38989eeb976f41fa Disk Warrior or Drive Genius? Al Poulin -- You received this message because you

Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop

2010-12-03 Thread Tom
Yes, John, the drive was a fairly new one and OWC may well replace it if I can find the receipt and warranty among my mounds of paperwork. But replacing the drive is a minor issue to me compared to retrieving the data on the dead one. I don't blame OWC for the current state of computer technology;

Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop

2010-12-03 Thread John Martz
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Tom tba...@nmia.com wrote: Yes, John, the drive was a fairly new one and OWC may well replace it if I can find the receipt and warranty among my mounds of paperwork. Your receipt should be available online as part of your ordering information for your account

Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop

2010-12-03 Thread J.M.P.Hissel
On 03-12-2010 01:30, Tom, tba...@nmia.com, wrote: With that established, what to do now, if anything? Bash the drive with a hammer, freeze it in the freezer--anything at all--to somehow make it show on the desktop, at least long enough to get the data off it? Ask Drew Janssen

Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop

2010-12-03 Thread Clark Martin
On Dec 3, 2010, at 8:42 AM, Tom wrote: Yes, John, the drive was a fairly new one and OWC may well replace it if I can find the receipt and warranty among my mounds of paperwork. But replacing the drive is a minor issue to me compared to retrieving the data on the dead one. I don't blame OWC

Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop

2010-12-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 3, 2010, at 9:42 AM, Tom wrote: Thanks for the freezer suggestion, Al. I've heard of that treatment, too. Freezing things shrinks them and frees up stuck parts temporarily. It also causes broken electronics to not overheat as fast. My drive isn't stuck, though; it spins up freely,

Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop

2010-12-03 Thread iJohn
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu wrote: What CAN be done is sending it off to a drive recovery place like DriveSavers. It's quite pricey, though: last time I checked, Drive Savers starts at $750 for recovery, and goes on up to about $2500 for normal

Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop

2010-12-03 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Dec 3, 2010, at 3:57 PM, iJohn wrote: I wonder, does the $2500 cover the cost of one of their techs disassembling the drive in a clean room and trying to tease bits off the bare platters? (Do they even still use that approach or has the retrieval technology moved on to other approaches?)

Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop

2010-12-02 Thread Tom
The new OWC external HD enclosure arrived today, and I took the drive that had vanished from the desktop out of its old enclosure and put it into the new one, but it didn't do any good. The drive still doesn't show up on the desktop from inside its new enclosure, even though it spins up and goes

Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop

2010-12-02 Thread Tom
in the dead drive's enclosure, now that it's shown itself to be a good enclosure, and that will become my back up drive for the other one I just got. I TRUST NOTHING anymore! Thanks again to all who tried to help me out here. Best wishes, Tom -- You received this message because you

Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop

2010-12-02 Thread John Martz
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 12:35 AM, Tom tba...@nmia.com wrote: So, I guess the drive and all my data on it are toast. I forget how this all began but I believe you said the bad drive was from a 1 TB Mercury Elite Pro external hard drive you bought from OWC about 1 1/2 years ago, correct? Since

Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop

2010-11-28 Thread Tom
Thanks James. I hope you're right about the drive being still alive and OK inside of a dead enclosure. I can start the drive up and hear the disk spinning up and running inside, gently vibrating like normal, so I hope that when the new enclosure comes, the thing will be able to send out the data

Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop

2010-11-28 Thread nikoad
Check the gas tank first. Two basic items not mentioned. Check your finder preferences. Under Show Items on Desktop, is Hard Drives Checked? Also, does Disk utility see the hard drive? Nick On Nov 27, 5:59 am, Tom tba...@nmia.com wrote: This is a 1 TB OWC Mercury Elite Pro external hard drive

Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop

2010-11-27 Thread Tom
Thanks Clark Kris. You guys are very kind to take the time to help me out like this, and I appreciate it. Well, this external hard drive has three interfaces: FW400, FW800, and USB, and I've tried connecting the drive to the Mac with each one of these cables, and in all three cases nothing

Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop

2010-11-27 Thread Clark Martin
On Nov 27, 2010, at 12:00 AM, Tom wrote: Thanks Clark Kris. You guys are very kind to take the time to help me out like this, and I appreciate it. Well, this external hard drive has three interfaces: FW400, FW800, and USB, and I've tried connecting the drive to the Mac with each one

Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop

2010-11-27 Thread Tom
Thanks Clark. OK, I'm ordering up a new enclosure for this drive from OWC (this one: http://tinyurl.com/y94fw3) plus two big new external hard drives, and DiskWarrior is also on the way. Guess all I can do for the nonce is just sit tight and wait for all this stuff to arrive, while mourning my

Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop

2010-11-27 Thread James Therrault
On Nov 26, 2010, at 11:07 PM, Tom wrote: OK Isaac. I'll probably try that too somewhere down the line. First I thought I'd give DiskWarrior a go. I dug around in my disks and found the DiskWarrior 3.0.2 disk, which has for OSX written on it in pen. But I'll bet the last time I used it was for

Help! External HD vanished from desktop

2010-11-26 Thread Tom
This is a 1 TB OWC Mercury Elite Pro external hard drive that I've had for maybe a year and a half. Today its icon just vanished off the desktop. The drive is still running, at least when I touch it I can feel the disk spinning inside, the case is warm, and the blue power light is lit. The drive

Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop

2010-11-26 Thread Isaac Smith
This is a 1 TB OWC Mercury Elite Pro external hard drive that I've had for maybe a year and a half. Today its icon just vanished off the desktop. The drive is still running, at least when I touch it I can feel the disk spinning inside, the case is warm, and the blue power light is lit. The

Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop

2010-11-26 Thread James Therrault
On Nov 26, 2010, at 9:59 PM, Tom wrote: This is a 1 TB OWC Mercury Elite Pro external hard drive that I've had for maybe a year and a half. Today its icon just vanished off the desktop. The drive is still running, at least when I touch it I can feel the disk spinning inside, the case is warm,

Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop

2010-11-26 Thread Kris Tilford
On Nov 26, 2010, at 9:59 PM, Tom wrote: I've tried both a FW400 and a FW800 cable to the G5 Mac Are you sure the FW is working on the G5? I've heard of several G5's where the front FW port quits, and I think if the rear FW port quits it's both the 800 400 together. I'd try plugging the

Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop

2010-11-26 Thread Tom
Thanks Isaac and James. I have an old version of Disk Warrior that worked with early versions of OSX, that I suspect may do more harm than good if I tried it, so I'd better not. I'll just buy a fresh new copy for 10.5. I'm not much of a techie so I hesitate to start taking drives out of their

Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop

2010-11-26 Thread Isaac Smith
I guess I could buy a new enclosure from OWC and put this drive in it, to see what happens. Tom, Before dropping the money on a new enclosure, I'd take a serious look at a universal drive adapter. They're not pretty and they're not even close to permanent, but I was able to pick one up from

Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop

2010-11-26 Thread Tom
OK Isaac. I'll probably try that too somewhere down the line. First I thought I'd give DiskWarrior a go. I dug around in my disks and found the DiskWarrior 3.0.2 disk, which has for OSX written on it in pen. But I'll bet the last time I used it was for OSX 10.2 or something, a long time ago. Dare

Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop

2010-11-26 Thread Kris Tilford
On Nov 26, 2010, at 11:07 PM, Tom wrote: BTW I took this external drive and plugged it into the FW400 port of a G4 eMac, and then a G4 dual 2.0, and it didn't show up on the desktop of either one of them. However, as I said before, when this drive turns on it spins up and does the little

Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop

2010-11-26 Thread Tom
Thanks Kris! OK, I plugged the external drive into the G5, it's the only FW device plugged in, and in the System Profiler under FireWire, there are two FireWire Buses listed one above the other in the top window. When I click on the upper FireWire Bus, it says in the lower window: Maximum speed:

Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop

2010-11-26 Thread Clark Martin
On Nov 26, 2010, at 10:08 PM, Tom wrote: Thanks Kris! OK, I plugged the external drive into the G5, it's the only FW device plugged in, and in the System Profiler under FireWire, there are two FireWire Buses listed one above the other in the top window. When I click on the upper FireWire

Re: Help! External HD vanished from desktop

2010-11-26 Thread Kris Tilford
On Nov 27, 2010, at 12:08 AM, Tom wrote: When I click on the upper FireWire Bus, it says in the lower window: Maximum speed: Up to 400 Mb/sec., and that's all. It strikes me that one of these FireWire buses might be a PCI-X card I installed that provides some extra USB and two FW ports.

Giga Designs G-Celerator G4/1.0 AGP jumper settings – please help

2010-11-24 Thread Mac User #330250
(100 MHz system bus ×12 = 1.2 GHz CPU), but this is no help at all. I also don't what to experiment with the jumper settings. These are right now: J1 through J5: closed – closed – open – closed – closed J7 through J10: closed – open – closed – closed I did find a PDF file for the Cube version

Re: Giga Designs G-Celerator G4/1.0 AGP jumper settings – please help

2010-11-24 Thread Mac User #330250
-- Original message -- Subject: Giga Designs G-Celerator G4/1.0 AGP jumper settings – please help Date:Mittwoch 24 November 2010N From:Mac User #330250 macuser330...@gmx.net To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com Does anyone here possess a document that describes

Need help understanding webcam differences

2010-11-02 Thread Jonas Lopez
Need help understanding webcam differences Picture this on your G4, the webcam local picture is just not clear - reason is 400k vs 4M pixels. A 640x480 pixel image printed at a size of 6.4 x 4.8 inches has a printing resolution of 100 PPI, just look at several public webcam sites to see which

Re: Need help understanding webcam differences

2010-11-02 Thread Jonas Ulrich
Google MacCam. Download it and be sure and put the little extension file in the folder given. It will be clear what to do when you download it. This extension will let you use almost ANY webcam in any application! Here are some possible reasons the picture isn't so great: 1. The camera just

Re: Need help understanding webcam differences

2010-11-02 Thread Kris Tilford
On Nov 2, 2010, at 7:45 PM, Jonas Lopez wrote: Need help understanding webcam differences Picture this on your G4, the webcam local picture is just not clear - reason is 400k vs 4M pixels. A 640x480 pixel image printed at a size of 6.4 x 4.8 inches has a printing resolution of 100 PPI

Re: desperate help

2010-08-26 Thread Dan
At 7:31 AM -0600 8/24/2010, Nestamicky wrote: The objective is to install 10.5 using .dmg. The approach, as she just explained it to me: Put the HD that 10.5 is being installed to inside the machine, having formatted and partitioned it; one for OS, the other for personal data. Boot off an HD

Need help with a disk problem

2010-08-26 Thread John Ruschmeyer
I have a PowerBook G3 (Pismo, 500mhz, 1GB RAM) which has been running under 10.4 for some time. Recently, though, I've noticed some disk-related problems which I could use some help with. The first problem appeared during an update for Office 2004. Like most installers, it popped up

Re: Need help with a disk problem

2010-08-26 Thread Dan
At 12:35 PM -0400 8/26/2010, John Ruschmeyer wrote: PowerBook G3 (Pismo, 500mhz, 1GB RAM) HD size? free space? running under 10.4 for some time. 10 point 4 point what? Fully updated or ? The first problem appeared during an update for Office 2004. Like most installers, it popped up a

Re: Need help with a disk problem

2010-08-26 Thread jruschme
On Aug 26, 1:06 pm, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 12:35 PM -0400 8/26/2010, John Ruschmeyer wrote: PowerBook G3 (Pismo, 500mhz, 1GB RAM) HD size?  free space? 40GB drive (shows up as 36.7GB), 9 GB free running under 10.4 for some time. 10 point 4 point what?  Fully updated or ?

Re: Need help with a disk problem

2010-08-26 Thread Gus
, 11:35 am, John Ruschmeyer jrusc...@gmail.com wrote: I have a PowerBook G3 (Pismo, 500mhz, 1GB RAM) which has been running under 10.4 for some time. Recently, though, I've noticed some disk-related problems which I could use some help with. The first problem appeared during an update

Re: Need help with a disk problem

2010-08-26 Thread jruschme
Well, it turns out to be simpler than I thought... Based on the advice I received, I started poking around with the Console app and found the following: 2010-08-26 19:27:52.100 SoftwareUpdateCheck[626] -[NSCFString substringFromIndex:] called with out-of-bounds index. For apps linked on Tiger

desperate help

2010-08-24 Thread Nestamicky
The objective is to install 10.5 using .dmg. The approach, as she just explained it to me: Put the HD that 10.5 is being installed to inside the machine, having formatted and partitioned it; one for OS, the other for personal data. Boot off an HD with an OS-Tiger-and mount, this HD is

Re: desperate help

2010-08-24 Thread John Carmonne
On Aug 24, 2010, at 6:31 AM, Nestamicky wrote: The objective is to install 10.5 using .dmg. The approach, as she just explained it to me: Put the HD that 10.5 is being installed to inside the machine, having formatted and partitioned it; one for OS, the other for personal data. Boot

Re: desperate help

2010-08-24 Thread nestamicky
On 8/24/2010 7:42 AM, John Carmonne wrote: What machine are you doing this on? Use the Disk Utility restore feature to put the image on the partition you want to boot from or make a DVD from the .dmg. I think she's on a laptop. I'm not sure which one. What you've suggested here has been done,

Re: I need help, connecting a extra HD to my G3 B W

2010-08-16 Thread Charles Lenington
Robert Long wrote: Hello group, I am trying to add an additional HD to my G3. Here is the info I copied from my machine. My G 3 is a blue I assume you mean blue and white - The rev 1 motherboards have a issue here only 1 drive can be used on the (IDE/ATA) hard drive bus. search the list

Re: I need help, connecting a extra HD to my G3 B W

2010-08-16 Thread Peter Haas
On Aug 15, 2010, at 9:07 PM, Robert Long wrote: I observed that the connection from the HD to the MB are female and there is one spare connection. Can I connect another HD and what type of cable or connection do I need? I have been given sever HDs, 20 gb and 40 gb. I don't know at this

Re: I need help, connecting a extra HD to my G3 B W

2010-08-16 Thread Dana Collins
challenge will be your video card, which will have to be PCI-based; an ATI Radeon 32Mb of various flavors (Mac Ed., Radeon 7000, 7500, et.al.) will be what to look for. Try to get as many of these items at our LEM swap list; here you¹ll find enough savvy sellers who can help you make sure you

I need help, connecting a extra HD to my G3 B W

2010-08-15 Thread Robert Long
Hello group, I am trying to add an additional HD to my G3. Here is the info I copied from my machine. My G 3 is a blue and the info on it is; CD rom and ATA hard drive, PCI slot $J12 display card,4 MB disk cache. Virtual memory; 129 MB, Built in Memory 128 MB, backside L2 cache 512 K cache,

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

Re: ESata to Sata help...

2010-07-18 Thread Dan
drive I got, i couldn't help to notice that I had an eSata plug on my enclosure. I have a few questions about that: 1: Is there a connector cable that can plug into an eSata enclosure and plug into an Internal Sata drive? 2: If I have a SATA plugged into the Esata port and inside the enclosure

I need help with my video card! =(

2010-07-08 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
resolution for the transparent bar. Any help is needed and very much appreciated! Thank you very much. --  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

Re: I need help with my video card! =(

2010-07-08 Thread Eric Herbert
possibilities i have in mind: 1) The sawtooth I originally used to flash the video card was the only machine that showed the transparent bar (I only have 2 AGP machines, the rest are PCI and PCIe) 2) maybe 1366x768 is not a supported resolution for the transparent bar. Any help is needed

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,

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