David's new iMac G4 Thread!

[OpTic Jayex]

You should post pictures. Would love to see that iMac G4!

 

[gooser]

be careful with that paste. you can do as much damage by putting in too much as you can by omitting it.

 

[davidg4781]

One more pic I have right now. Took this earlier today before upgrading it to Leopard.

This is the iMac Screen Sharing with my MacBook Pro running Mavericks. It actually ran pretty good for a few web searches and playing music in iTunes.

Oh, by the way, my MBP isn't showing up now that I'm running Leopard. Any idea why? I haven't fully updated anything but I thought it would at least show up in Finder...

 

[ad931]

Having a brain lock.... how did you mirror the screen on the iMac? been trying to do that between my Mac mini & my iBook G4....

 

[Intell]

Having a brain lock.... how did you mirror the screen on the iMac? been trying to do that between my Mac mini & my iBook G4....

There's an old script called Screen Spanning Doctor. That may be what you are wanting.

 

[ad931]

thanks!!!!!!

 

[davidg4781]

Having a brain lock.... how did you mirror the screen on the iMac? been trying to do that between my Mac mini & my iBook G4....

I opened Finder, selected the iMac, and clicked Share Screen in the top right. You have to have Screen Sharing turned on in the Sharing preferences.

 

[davidg4781]

There are a few places on the Internet that detail how to best determine if DDR ram is high or low density.

Ok, I need help with this. This is the kind of information I'm finding...

If your system is designed for accepting DDR (Double Data Rate) memories of 184pin DIMM (usually desktops) or 200pin SODIMM (usually laptops) built, for your system to fully recognise 1GB capacity per memory slot, you need to use 'Low Density - 64Mx8 config' 1GB module. If you use 'High-Density - 128Mx4 config' 1GB module, your PC may only recognise it as HALF the size at 512MB or most of the time it will not work.
How to tell if your 1GB module is a low or high density module?
All low density 1GB modules are made with 16 chips (8 chips on each side) using 64Mx8 device.
All high density 1GB modules are made with 16 chips (8 chips on each side) using 128Mx4 device.

And on the RAM I'm looking to purchase it says this...

128Meg x 64

Does this mean it is high density because of the 128Meg? This is what's coming up when I'm searching for iMac G4 SODIMM. This is also on OWC's site. I just want to make sure I don't purchase anything wrong.

By the way, this RAM is only about $30. I found a posting from 2005 that listed this at $204. Glad I waited...

 

[Intell]

If it's from OWC, it's low density.

 

[davidg4781]

Oh! It does have a 160GB HDD. Seagate brand, so I'm guessing it's the original. The ad had it listed at 140GB and Disk Utility has 149.

 

[128keaton]

Some hard drives always make lots of noise. I know my Cube's hard drive sounds like a coffee grinder, has since day one way back in 2003. It currently has about 25,000 hours on it and no problems.

I can confirm, the Cube can be loud!

Loud as a shot cat flyin' though a fan!

 

[davidg4781]

I may have found the issue with my bad wireless connection. In the past it would get a strong signal and slowly go down to nothing.

I got a new router from AT&T (same model, updated version). I set it up to ONLY have wireless G. So far I'm staying with maybe 2-3 curves. It's still slower than all my other devices. And there's only a wall with an a/c unit between the router and the iMac.

Would getting maybe a 5th gen Airport Extreme help any with this? If I had this would I at least be able to keep this on G and run the rest of the network on N?

If not, I'm thinking an Airport Express. Right now internet is pretty much unusable as it's so slow.