Re: iMac G4 questions

2011-04-30 Thread Ralph Green
On Sat, 2011-04-30 at 04:17 -0500, Kris Tilford wrote: > On Apr 30, 2011, at 4:07 AM, Ralph Green wrote: > > > I don't see how the bottom plate comes off. > > I see in the pictures that they got it out. > > But, what do you pull or pry on? > > In the 2nd photo the plug that's causing you problems

Re: iMac G4 questions

2011-04-30 Thread Kris Tilford
On Apr 30, 2011, at 4:07 AM, Ralph Green wrote: I don't see how the bottom plate comes off. I see in the pictures that they got it out. But, what do you pull or pry on? In the 2nd photo the plug that's causing you problems is shown taken apart in about the 11 o'clock position and someone has

Re: iMac G4 questions

2011-04-30 Thread Ralph Green
On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 16:01 -0700, Dan Ziegler wrote: > Ralph, this hard disk was pretty easy to get to: I just removed the > motherboard, and the disks were right there in a caddy. See xlr8 your > mac's page here: > http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/systems/iMac_g4/imacg4_takeapart.html > - it's helpful

Re: iMac G4 questions

2011-04-27 Thread t...@io.com
On Apr 26, 6:01 pm, Dan Ziegler wrote: > Ralph, this hard disk was pretty easy to get to: I just removed the > motherboard, and the disks were right there in a caddy. See xlr8 your > mac's page > here:http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/systems/iMac_g4/imacg4_takeapart.html > - it's helpful. And while

Re: iMac G4 questions

2011-04-26 Thread Dan Ziegler
Thanks for all the insight... now I'll have to check and see what GeForce it has!! ;-) This screen has plastic on the top as far as I can tell, the shame is all the pixels are nice and bright, only the top layer is scratched. Might just have to keep an eye out for dead iMacs with good screens. As

Re: iMac G4 questions

2011-04-26 Thread John Carmonne
On Apr 26, 2011, at 1:43 PM, Tina K. wrote: On 2011/04/26 14:28, John Carmonne so eloquently wrote: On Apr 26, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Tina K. wrote: According to Mactracker both of the USB 1 17" iMacs use the GeForce4 MX but the earlier one came with 32 MB of VRAM whereas the second one came

Re: iMac G4 questions

2011-04-26 Thread Tina K.
On 2011/04/26 14:28, John Carmonne so eloquently wrote: On Apr 26, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Tina K. wrote: According to Mactracker both of the USB 1 17" iMacs use the GeForce4 MX but the earlier one came with 32 MB of VRAM whereas the second one came with 64 MB VRAM. Tina IMO EveryMac.com gives

Re: iMac G4 questions

2011-04-26 Thread John Carmonne
On Apr 26, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Tina K. wrote: On 2011/04/26 09:41, t...@io.com so eloquently wrote: There were two extremely similar models of 800MHz G4, 17" iLamp. The first one will boot into OS 9.2. The second one will not. It's a bit like the difference between a regular MDD and a F

Re: iMac G4 questions

2011-04-26 Thread Tina K.
On 2011/04/26 09:41, t...@io.com so eloquently wrote: There were two extremely similar models of 800MHz G4, 17" iLamp. The first one will boot into OS 9.2. The second one will not.It's a bit like the difference between a regular MDD and a FW800 MDD, except harder to tell apart. Yours is pr

Re: iMac G4 questions

2011-04-26 Thread t...@io.com
On Apr 24, 6:14 pm, Dan Ziegler wrote: > I have recently bought an iMac G4 (iLamp) off craigslist-it's the > original 17" model (800 MHz, SDRAM, 80 GB). Just an aside, as your main questions have already been addressed by others... There were two extremely similar models of 800MHz G4, 17" iLa

Re: iMac G4 questions

2011-04-25 Thread Ralph Green
On Mon, 2011-04-25 at 14:23 -0700, Dan Ziegler wrote: > Hi there, > I have recently bought an iMac G4 (iLamp) off craigslist-it's the > original 17" model (800 MHz, SDRAM, 80 GB). When I bought it the girl .. > stuck a old 60 GB hard drive in and installed OS X 10.4 and now it > works fine. > I

iMac G4 questions

2011-04-25 Thread Dan Ziegler
Hi there, I have recently bought an iMac G4 (iLamp) off craigslist-it's the original 17" model (800 MHz, SDRAM, 80 GB). When I bought it the girl told me, "I think it needs a Software Update." Well, turns out it needed a lot more than that. I plugged it in, hooked up a Pro keyboard and mouse, and w

Re: iMac G4 questions

2011-04-25 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Apr 24, 2011, at 4:14 PM, Dan Ziegler wrote: > But I was wondering why the old drive "failed". It wouldn't even start > up off the OS X DVD to do a disk check! I took the original "failed" > hard drive and stuck it in my Linux box, and ran Disk Utility (the > Gnome app, it's similar to Apple's

iMac G4 questions

2011-04-25 Thread Dan Ziegler
Hi there, I have recently bought an iMac G4 (iLamp) off craigslist-it's the original 17" model (800 MHz, SDRAM, 80 GB). When I bought it the girl told me, "I think it needs a Software Update." Well, turns out it needed a lot more than that. I plugged it in, hooked up a Pro keyboard and mouse, and w