SnowLeopard--HELP!!
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From: Phillip Jones on 3 Jun 2010 22:58 nospam wrote: > In article > <drache-008B51.10404003062010(a)62-183-169-81.bb.dnainternet.fi>, erilar > <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote: > >> OK. The Apple tech blamed the OS mismatch, but here's what the old one >> says about itself: >> built-in memory 384 MB >> Virtual memory 385 MB used > > that indicates os 9. > >> Machine ID 406 >> Machine speed: 500 MHz >> Model name: Power Mac G4(AGP graphics) >> Processor info: PowerPC G4 >> ATA Hard Drive > > on a very old powermac g4 > >> Open Transport Version 2.7.9 >> Ethernet built-in: Link: up >> Appletalk active Version 60 > > it sees the ethernet hardware. I have the very same G4-500 but I have 1.5 Gb RAM installed, it runs OSX.4.11 just fine and I use Ethernet connected to a DSL Modem all the time. -- Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. "If it's Fixed, Don't Break it" http://www.phillipmjones.net mailto:pjones1(a)kimbanet.com
From: Phillip Jones on 3 Jun 2010 23:10 erilar wrote: > In article<4c07ec4f$0$11813$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, > Warren Oates<warren.oates(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> Why not back the G4 up and install OS X on it? Copy your floppy-disk >> stuff to modern CD-Rs or DVDs; copy the, er umm, "thick" DVDs to some >> modern "thin" ones (I dunno, there were some that were "thicker" but >> they were a kind of bizarre DVD/CD hybrid); I can't believe that your G4 >> was capable of playing them). 9.2.2 is dead and gone, just like NT 4. > > Because there are 9.2.2 things inaccessible to 10+. That's one of the > things I bought the laptop for, though admittedly it was for more RAM. > > The "thick DVDs" have a casing that goes into the slot with them. > They're very weird. They let me get a lot of data backed up and off the > G4 when I was doing graphics over there. ("Over there" is right next to > the laptop) > Folks your talking about DVD RAM Drive. You can copy files on and off a DVD RAM Drive as if it was a Hard DRIVE. it hold about 3.7 GB. My machine also uses one of those Drives. It will read DVD's of all types, and CD's of All types but will only write to a DVD RAM Disk which is usually in a Cartridge. -- Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. "If it's Fixed, Don't Break it" http://www.phillipmjones.net mailto:pjones1(a)kimbanet.com
From: erilar on 4 Jun 2010 11:33 In article <050620100248167489%HP(a)snotmail.com>, High Priest <HP(a)snotmail.com> wrote: > In article <drache-855D1C.09280002062010(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > erilar <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote: > > > > > > OS 10.6.3 has killed my address book, hidden some fonts, and killed my > > local network connection to my old computer. > > I doubt this is the fault of 10.63. More-probably, there is some random > bug on your machine. Run DiskWarrior to fix it. A: I don't have DiskWarrior B: An Apple tech told me, boiled down, that the upgrade was too big a jump and the thing can't handle it. At any rate, it can't open the backup. -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist http://www.mosaictelecom.com/~erilarlo
From: erilar on 4 Jun 2010 11:36 In article <hu9q53$6ia$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Phillip Jones <pjones1(a)kimbanet.com> wrote: > I have the very same G4-500 but I have 1.5 Gb RAM installed, it runs > OSX.4.11 just fine and I use Ethernet connected to a DSL Modem all the time. The G4 with 9.2.2 communicated with no problems with the OS 10.4.11 on my laptop. It's the upgrade on the latter to 10.6.3 for communication with an iPad that messed things up. -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist http://www.mosaictelecom.com/~erilarlo
From: erilar on 4 Jun 2010 11:37
In article <jollyroger-26C0DA.20162903062010(a)news.individual.net>, Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: > In article > <drache-377F97.18541203062010(a)62-183-169-81.bb.dnainternet.fi>, > erilar <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote: > > > In article <jollyroger-01CCEC.17235803062010(a)news.individual.net>, > > Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: > > > > > Typically, when the OS reports the cable is unplugged, yet a cable is > > > plugged in, it means the cable is faulty, or the other end of the cable > > > is not plugged into a powered device. > > > > > > First, try unplugging this cable and using it on another machine with a > > > known working Ethernet interface to see if the cable itself is at fault. > > > > > > It might also be a good idea to try using a known working Ethernet cable > > > on this computer to see if the computer Ethernet port, or the Ethernet > > > port to which you are connecting it, is working correctly. > > > > Unfortunately, that's something I can't very well do with what I have > > here. However, it was working perfectly just before the "up"grade. > > Well if you aren't able or willing to do these simple tests, then I > guess you're going to just have to accept the problem until that changes. It's not a matter of willing, unfortunately, but of not having the necessary alternatives 8-( Nevertheless, thanks for trying to help. I do appreciate it. -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist http://www.mosaictelecom.com/~erilarlo |