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Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 3 update is available. It seems the only way to get it, is to go directly to Microsoft Update and perform a custom update check.
I had the computer on for automatic updates, but it would not update that way. I had to do a manual update. It appears to be a very large update indeed.
Recommend having a backup to begin with. Just in case.
Good luck.
My update took about 45 minutes from the Microsoft Update website, even with a Comcast high speed connection.
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2 days ago
Packed off my iMAC G5 to the Apple store. I told them the symptoms of display video shaking, powering down on its own, can not power it up sometimes, and locks up with a blue screen. It wasn’t lack of memory.
The Genius Bar guy opened it up in less than a minute, took a ten second look inside, and said, “you need a new motherboard. The capacitors are bulging and blowing out electrolytic stuff. Sorry, your warranty was up two months ago. And, that is going to cost you somewhere around $750.00. Why don’t you just get a new one? The new ones are so much faster and better. Also, you are real close to the price of a new one too.”
Well, that didn’t sit well with me. I packed it back up and brought it home. I started doing more research and found the whole industry, including Apple had manufactured motherboards with defective capacitors in the past three or four years. These capacitors were built using a stolen recipe from Taiwan. Now all these motherboards are starting to have leaky and drying up electrolytic capacitors all over the place.
Now, since I don’t have anything to loose, I decided to remove the mother board from the computer. I’ll pick up (20) 1,000 uf 6.3 volts capacitors and (5) 1,000 uf 16 volts capacitors next week and try replacing every single one on the bad mother-board. To remove the mother-board, you have to remove the hard drive, the computer power supply, and the Super drive too. In addition, you need to unplug and unscrew several sensors on the board itself. Then you need to unscrew all the screws holding it to the mounted chassis. Then very carefully, you need to extract it from the computer. Be sure you find all the hidden screws. If I get a chance I’ll take some pictures of this process. In the meantime take a look at these pictures (one of the pictures is above) showing the mother board replacement assembly in total. Replace iMac G5 Motherboard
For the latest update go to Repairing an Apple iMac G5 Motherboard, according to Jim. See first hand with a show and tell of what is involved with this Apple motherboard repair.
Jim
3 weeks ago
Piece of cake to install memory on the Apple iMAC G5 computer.
Follow the simple how to install memory instructions at: Apple iMac G5: How To Install More Memory
Great pictures with detailed instructions.
Jim
PS - I had 512MB PC3200 memory in mine from the Apple factory. There are a total of two slots available. It appears that 2GB is the maximum amount of memory that can be installed on the iMAC G5 computer.
Since I recently purchased a 1GB PC3200 for my wife’s computer, I deceided to remove one of her 512MB and double the iMAC memory to a total of 1GB. This gave my wife 1.5GB on her PC running Windows XP and my extra iMAC a total of 1GB.
I use the iMAC more for web testing pruposes and browsing on the Internet than having the need for any very intensive type of computing power on that particular machine.
3 weeks ago
Blogger Custom Domain Name Publishing works much faster than publishing with FTP especially when blogs get very large in the number of files. Use a subdomain name with a Cname record following the Google DNS procedure on your domain name for custom domain name publishing. Keep your old blog alive and give a new link with your new blog address at the top. Use this option if you still want to publish your website on the main domain name.
An example of this would be. www.yourwebsitename.com for the old FTP blog. Create a new Cname record for blog.yourwebsitename.com. Publish to blog.yourwebsitename.com using Blogger Custom Domain name publishing. Create a new post at the old blog with a link telling your readers to go to the new blog address.
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Faster speed in publishing.
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4 weeks ago
R.I.P.
Working on a buddy’s Dell XPS R450 with Windows ME loaded. The last time it had a successful boot was probably two years ago. Could not boot from CD either. I think there was a motherboard failure.
Gave him the bad news. Time to send it to the graveyard.
Took out the 13 Gigabyte Hard Drive (can you say bad luck), and wiped it out with a complete reformat to NTFS; going to make use of this as a complete disk image for another computer that has Windows 2000 Professional installed. It will be an emergency cloned image at this point in time. Needed a little over 10 GB with this virgin system to begin with.
Worst case scenario is, if there is ever a complete hard drive failure, this drive could be plugged in this computer, and be back up and running at this point in time, with all the current software installed and orignial documents on this computer machine. Note: It is still a good idea to use some sort of regular backups with all computers today. Here is some good information on what software to use for backups and how to upgrade your hard drive.
Can’t think of much other use for this small a hard drive though. I predict in two or three years we will have 20 GB USB memory sticks.
So, say goodbye to the old, and say hello to the new.
Jim
4 weeks ago
I hate days like this. It seems like you can never fix what you started working on. You start in on one thing, and discover ten other things that are wrong. Very very frustrating. Talk about killing time. It seems like 12 hours can go by in a flash, and believe me it was is not fun.
Dealing with email issues. Dealing with formmail issues. Dealing with FTP issues. Dealing with SFTP issues. Shall I go on.
No, let’s see what tomorrow brings. Hopefully it will be a brighter day.
1 month ago
