Re: iMac G4 troubles

2010-08-22 Thread Jason Trunzo
even though I'm booting it off a CD. It freezes when it shows a happy Mac or when the grey apple comes up. Jason Trunzo wrote: The reason we want you to do this is two fold. First to see the mac thru a successful bootup. Second so you can run disc utility on your drive from the installer cd

Re: iMac G4 troubles

2010-08-22 Thread Jason Trunzo
screw up downloads before too, weird stuff Steve On Aug 22, 2010, at 5:47 AM, Jason Trunzo wrote: Thats unusual all right. The real deal here is that we've got to get the iMac to boot from somewhere so we can diagnose the drive. Do you have another working PowerPC mac with firewire in your house

Re: iMac G4 troubles

2010-08-21 Thread Jason Trunzo
I am gathering that you don't have any other equipment to connect to the iMac. If you had an internal or external DVD drive you could boot w the installer disc by holding down the c key until the disc boots or the option key until you can select the disc as startup. If you can't open your

Re: iMac G4 troubles

2010-08-21 Thread Jason Trunzo
The reason we want you to do this is two fold. First to see the mac thru a successful bootup. Second so you can run disc utility on your drive from the installer cd to attempt to repair the drive. Or simply reinstall the os. DON'T PANIC! Sent from my Electronic Thumb On Aug 21, 2010, at

Re: G4 iMac w/Ubuntu - install problems

2010-08-13 Thread Jason Trunzo
You can boot mac in target disk mode and install os x from your g4 tower that way. The iMac should be able to boot from the disc when you launch holding c key. You may want to insure that you are using a USB cabled keyboard not wireless at startup. DON'T PANIC! Sent from my Electronic

Re: Ap-Tel Talk

2010-08-01 Thread Jason Trunzo
You have all the software you need. Tiger will talk to XP. You need to make sure that all your computers are on the same workgroup and that windows sharing is turned on, and your mac will 'see' the other computers. Then you can transfer files from the desktop. On Jul 31, 2010, at 5:49 PM,

Re: iMac G3 - reluctant CD drive

2010-06-26 Thread Jason Trunzo
same on mine - and replacing the optical drive just isn't much fun on an iMac G3 so I live with it until I can't live with it. Peace Lovingkindness, Jason Trunzo jasontru...@gmail.com On Jun 24, 2010, at 8:23 PM, Andrew Main wrote: I'm working on a 600MHz iMac G3 whose CD-RW drive has

Re: iMac G3 Upgade

2010-06-12 Thread Jason Trunzo
You will need a tiger upgrade or tiger retail disc - i've had the same issues in the past myself. You should still be able to install Tiger onto the iMac from the iBook by booting the iMac into target disc mode and choosing to upgrade Mac OS X Peace Lovingkindness, Jason Trunzo jasontru

IC2 register test failed

2010-06-05 Thread Jason Trunzo
Does anybody know what this means? I ran apple service diagnostic 2.5.2 on 1.8ghz iMac G5 and am getting this error. Thanks! Don't Panic! JT -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at

Re: IC2 register test failed

2010-06-05 Thread Jason Trunzo
NOT affect/confused with the data and address buses. If the G5 is otherwise working as intended, disregard the error. Regards, Naftali On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 11:10, Jason Trunzo jasontru...@gmail.com wrote: Does anybody know what this means? I ran apple service diagnostic 2.5.2

iMac G5 Cap Replacement Follow Up - I2C errors in ASD 2.5.2

2010-06-03 Thread Jason Trunzo
Hey guys, a couple of months ago I looked here for some help with replacing the bad caps on my iMac g5 1.8Ghz 20' Well I did it! It starts up. It seems to be working. I ran Apple Service Diagnostic 2.5.2 on it WITHOUT an internal HD and I am getting 2 errors. The first is on the I2C - Register

Re: G3 having trouble with target disk mode.

2010-03-29 Thread Jason Trunzo
I'm pretty sure that G3 Pmacs don't have a target disk mode on the ROM. Lets see what other listers have to say, but I remember this being an issue with a 400Mhz G3 Pmac that I was trying to pull data from - it had a SCSI drive and an ATA drive attached - Target disk mode may have been a later

Re: iMac Cooling

2010-03-28 Thread Jason Trunzo
On Mar 28, 2010, at 6:53 PM, Amanda Ward wrote: Rookie question here... I have an iMac G5... how is this machine cooled? Is it liquid cooling or just fans and heat-sinks? fans and heat sinks -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using