Upgraded PowerBook SSD reinstall.

[Archduk3]

UPDATE!

So I had my new drive delivered, and and installed by the same service place and yet again. The same issue. Could not install OSX at all.

Since I am not that handy with laptops I am a little afraid that I would bread something if I tried to do it on my own, but as it is now I spent sooo much on them trying to take it out and put in a new drive.

I will contact OWC tomorrow to hear what they are saying.

 

[GermanyChris]

UPDATE!

So I had my new drive delivered, and and installed by the same service place and yet again. The same issue. Could not install OSX at all.

Since I am not that handy with laptops I am a little afraid that I would bread something if I tried to do it on my own, but as it is now I spent sooo much on them trying to take it out and put in a new drive.

I will contact OWC tomorrow to hear what they are saying.

Use iFixit and do it yourself..it'll be fun and you'll learn something

 

[Archduk3]

Use iFixit and do it yourself..it'll be fun and you'll learn something

Yeah I'll try it, just a some work to find the tools in Hong Kong

Is there a way to make a faulty install?

 

[GermanyChris]

Yeah I'll try it, just a some work to find the tools in Hong Kong

Is there a way to make a faulty install?

Really the only hard part is getting to the grive and keeping track of all the small screws. It took me about an hour to put one in my 12" G4.

 

[Archduk3]

Really the only hard part is getting to the grive and keeping track of all the small screws. It took me about an hour to put one in my 12" G4.

Yeah, well what I was wondering about was if they couldve messed it up while installing it.

 

[Archduk3]

Really the only hard part is getting to the grive and keeping track of all the small screws. It took me about an hour to put one in my 12" G4.

Managed to screw the drive out myself. And will be sending it back to OWC tomorrow for them to have it tested.


This is a side question really, but my SuperDrive is dead. Can I just remove it to loose some weight and maybe even "save" battery time?

 

[GermanyChris]

Managed to screw the drive out myself. And will be sending it back to OWC tomorrow for them to have it tested.


This is a side question really, but my SuperDrive is dead. Can I just remove it to loose some weight and maybe even "save" battery time?

Why not ebay another one while you wait on OWC to tell you the drive is good..

 

[Archduk3]

Why not ebay another one while you wait on OWC to tell you the drive is good..

The story continues.

I think OWC had a bad batch or something. Because it took them 4 drives to find a working one.

But now I am typing on my 1 ghz, 1.25 gb ram, 40 gb SSD powerbook.

And honestly I can only say, what was I thinking?

Booting is fast. And yes, some software run smoother than before. But still, Youtube wont work properly, doesnt matter if it is SD or HD, and all the rest is slow. In fact, moving files is either lightning fast, or slow as hell.

And this from a laptop that I used to watch HD videos, shown on external screen running tiger, with a 5400 rpm disk.

Is there any tweaks I have to do or?

//C

 

[GermanyChris]

The story continues.

I think OWC had a bad batch or something. Because it took them 4 drives to find a working one.

But now I am typing on my 1 ghz, 1.25 gb ram, 40 gb SSD powerbook.

And honestly I can only say, what was I thinking?

Booting is fast. And yes, some software run smoother than before. But still, Youtube wont work properly, doesnt matter if it is SD or HD, and all the rest is slow. In fact, moving files is either lightning fast, or slow as hell.

And this from a laptop that I used to watch HD videos, shown on external screen running tiger, with a 5400 rpm disk.

Is there any tweaks I have to do or?

//C

I would for a couple day set the computer to; not put the hard drive to sleep, and turn off sudden motion sensor if g4's have this option, I just can't remember..

Just enjoy the new found life of you PB G4!!!

 

[Imixmuan]

Booting is fast. And yes, some software run smoother than before. But still, Youtube wont work properly, doesnt matter if it is SD or HD, and all the rest is slow. In fact, moving files is either lightning fast, or slow as hell.

And this from a laptop that I used to watch HD videos, shown on external screen running tiger, with a 5400 rpm disk.

Is there any tweaks I have to do or?

//C

Well, if you are relying on flash for youtube, and using leopard, that's your problem. Use Mactubes or Youview for youtube viewing, make sure to set your player in mactubes for quicktime. If you want HD then start a HD download with mactubes, then drop the file on Coreplayer. Thank Nova77 for that trick! You can even search ahead with coreplayer, it works spectacularly well, except for On2V6 encoded videos. Coreplayer does not support that codec.

If you don't have Coreplayer, you need to find 20 American dollars and buy it, while mobihand still sells it. It seems to be orphanware at the moment, ie, they still sell it but don't give a rat's ass about supporting or updating it. Up to 720p streaming on a decent G4 is possible with Coreplayer. Impossible without.

Also, if you have tenfourfox you can try out viewtube. It's a greasemonkey script that replaces flash with quicktime. In tiger with quicktime 7.6.4 and perian it allows me to stream pretty decent quality (360p) embedded within the browser on a 1.07 ghz ibook G4. You can also use it to download video, or if you have quicktime pro (and who doesn't these days) you can download the file once its fully loaded. You can use the firefox downloadhelper extension for that too, and for copying the url of a HD stream and letting coreplayer stream it for you. Basically options abound is what I am saying.

Mactubes or Youview are far better for daily use though.

 

[Archduk3]

Well, if you are relying on flash for youtube, and using leopard, that's your problem. Use Mactubes or Youview for youtube viewing, make sure to set your player in mactubes for quicktime. If you want HD then start a HD download with mactubes, then drop the file on Coreplayer. Thank Nova77 for that trick! You can even search ahead with coreplayer, it works spectacularly well, except for On2V6 encoded videos. Coreplayer does not support that codec.

If you don't have Coreplayer, you need to find 20 American dollars and buy it, while mobihand still sells it. It seems to be orphanware at the moment, ie, they still sell it but don't give a rat's ass about supporting or updating it. Up to 720p streaming on a decent G4 is possible with Coreplayer. Impossible without.

Also, if you have tenfourfox you can try out viewtube. It's a greasemonkey script that replaces flash with quicktime. In tiger with quicktime 7.6.4 and perian it allows me to stream pretty decent quality (360p) embedded within the browser on a 1.07 ghz ibook G4. You can also use it to download video, or if you have quicktime pro (and who doesn't these days) you can download the file once its fully loaded. You can use the firefox downloadhelper extension for that too, and for copying the url of a HD stream and letting coreplayer stream it for you. Basically options abound is what I am saying.

Mactubes or Youview are far better for daily use though.

Just checked reading speed using Xbench. And my ssd is around 19mbit at fastest. While the 5400 rpm drive was easily around 30-40 mbit.

I talked to OWC and they would get back to me. But so far, investing money in a SSD and a OWC one, has costed me time, money and a lot of effort. I would never recommend buying this drive from them. It isn't the supports fault, its just their quality check, third drive I get and I still experience problems...