Re: Replace HDD iMac 2007

2016-03-06 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
I've noticed this to be an issue with my 2008 iMac 24". The original 750 GB HDD was greyed out by Disk utility, and wasn't even remotely capable of being formatted, citing a "unable to mount disk" issue everytime. I went the hard way and disassembled the entire machine, replacing the HDD with

Re: iMac G3 - anyone in UK willing to breathe life back..?

2016-01-22 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
I live in the US. Had I have lived there, I'd gladly fix them. -- -- 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 http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at

Re: What do you use your (old) iMac for in 2015?

2015-03-26 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
I'll take a look at it, maybe take a picture to further elaborate. I'm also working on an iMac G5 project, replacing the screen, for the most part. With $30, I was able to get myself a replacement logic board, LCD, and inverter board off of gainsaver. No single combination has resulted in any

Re: What do you use your (old) iMac for in 2015?

2015-03-25 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
I'm currently using an iMac G4 700 MHz as a clock server. It's hooked up to an external monitor, running fliqlo as a screensaver, with the monitor on constantly. I'm not sure if it's the fact I'm using it solely for this, or it's age, however, the screen is starting to show a few multicolored

Re: Lost Password Recovery

2014-09-08 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
What is the version of Mac OS/OS X is it running? If it starts up with an Apple logo and a spinning wheel, it is running 10.2 and above. Any version of OS X can have it's admin account circumvented by accessing open firmware and resetting the machine to think it was just installed with OS X. OS

Re: upgrade HD for g3

2011-12-16 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
If you are looking for a 120GB+ solution. look no further: www.speedtools.com/ATA6 Install this driver for $25 on any PowerPC Mac running Mac OS X 10.4 or later, then install anything in terms of capacity. On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:05 AM, J. R. Rosen jrose...@sbcglobal.netwrote: That

Re: Upgrading the emac is it worth it

2011-12-04 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Or if you want to run a very current OS, run Ubuntu 11.10. On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 8:40 PM, platnicat mewr platni...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 6:27 PM, Christopher Satterfield christopher1...@gmail.com wrote: OS 10.4 is the lastest it supports so no upgrading that, unless you

Re: emac 700Mhz Opinium

2011-11-10 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
All my my G4 machines are running leopard regardless of their speed. I just throw in the max ram, and it works fine for most basic things. On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Jack Suggs jhs...@gmail.com wrote: I gave my grandson an eMac 700mhz with 1 gb RAM running 10.4.11 when he was 10, now

Re: emac 700Mhz Opinium

2011-11-08 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Bump the RAM to 1GB and it will be a smooth ride. On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 10:58 AM, MACMAN joshantiq...@gmail.com wrote: I Just want to get peoples opinium on the emac 700Mhz The emac i use specs powerpc G4 700mhz 256 megs of sdram 40 gig hard drive CD rom only, no modem OS, mac os

Re: emac 700Mhz Opinium

2011-11-08 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
I am rather to question as to why modems were placed on any machines after 2003 at all. It's not like we are still dealing with dial-up anymore, are we? On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 10:18 PM, Christopher Satterfield christopher1...@gmail.com wrote: The ram is really low, especially for Tiger. The

Re: iTunes 9.2.1 and 700 Mhz G3 iMac (OS 10.4.11)

2011-11-06 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Well guess what. My G3 PowerMac works with iTunes 9.2.1 On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Dan dantear...@gmail.com wrote: At 9:19 AM -0500 11/3/2011, ZEKE wrote: I used a known Internet link to re-grab iTunes 9.2.1 and, now, it says my computer must be a G4 or greater. It worked,

Re: iTunes 9.2.1 and 700 Mhz G3 iMac (OS 10.4.11)

2011-11-06 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
Funny thing is, I never used Xpostfacto for it to work on my machine. On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 10:57 AM, gifutiger gifuti...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, You need to get a copy of xpostfactor see below, it fools the installer into thinking that your processor meets the 833Mhz requirement for

Re: 17'' 800 G4 iMac, suddenly no video

2011-11-04 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
What OS is it running? The very first version of Mac OS X 10.5 is prone to whiting or blacking out the screen due to incompatible screen drivers that came with it. This was fixed with Mac OS X 10.5.3. On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 2:53 AM, a1 arichic...@gmail.com wrote: So what are the standard steps

Re: iTunes 9.2.1 and 700 Mhz G3 iMac (OS 10.4.11)

2011-11-03 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
When I had iTunes 9.2.1 on my iMac G3, it worked because my installation was off of a machine of which was running a G4 processor. I transplanted it to the iMac G3, installed iTunes, and it worked like that. When you try to install iTunes on a supported OS version but an unsupported processor,

Re: New Mac Virus?

2011-11-02 Thread Mark Sokolovsky
One question, is this trojan universal code or Intel/PowerPC only? On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Christopher Satterfield christopher1...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting, I didn't know there was anything for Linux, that is something I just learned. I wonder how long it is until there is a new