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Operating System / Your 7.6.1 Uptime
July 19, 2008, 02:10 |
Now that I've had some fun tinkering with 7.6.1 on my G3 upgraded Powerbook 1400 (making it do things that astonish and amaze the kids who only know Macs in the OS X era), I'm interested in setting up the most stable 7.6.1 system I can. I crash at least once a day, though most of those are caused by the Orinoco wireless driver, especially when switching from wireless back to Ethernet, or vice-versa. It’s a very fussy driver, but I’m forgiving because I’m amazed that it works at all. Some of the “risky” things I’ve done are edit the System resource to report 8.1.0 as the installed System, enabled speculative processing for my Vimage G3 upgrade card, installed Appearance Manager, and installed Office 1998 (ha-ha). Anyone one have an opinion on the degree of risk invovled with any of those (especially the speculative processing, which I don’t know much about)? I could live without all of those mods, especially if someone could tell me how to enable the stream tuner you get in SoundJam 2.5.3 in the free version that runs without mods or Appearance Manager. The add-ons I don't think I could live without are BeHierarchic, Network Time, Default Folder, Sleeper, Hidden Finder Features, RamDoubler 8 and SpeedDoubler 8. Anyone have stability issues with only of those? The software I use every day are the WannaBe Browser, IE 5, Netscape 4.8 (whose mail component actually works with gmail IMAP), Fetch 3, SoundJam, BBEdit Lite 4.6, and Word 5.1a, all of which seem to be solid. I'd like to hear some of your uptime reports, what features you turn on and off to achieve good uptime, what software is most reliable, and what you consider to be absolute no-nos. It goes without saying that I’ve applied all the essential updates offered at this site :-}. --V |
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Hardware / PowerBook 1400 HEAT
July 17, 2008, 18:51 |
Quote from: "DaveRhodes" Maybe Gauge Pro is reporting temperatures too high? I think this is likely, as the temp monitor in the XLR8 MACh Speed Control Panel always reports a reading 2 or 3 degrees cooler than what Gauge Pro reports. You are also right that the suite of apps you regularly run can push the temp one way or another. My temp now averages 64˚C under my full load, and maybe climbs to 66˚C after several hours of pushing the 1400 hard (if I'm playing with something like sonicWORX PowerBundle, or ProTools 3.8.4). However, ever since I disabled desktop printing, it always drops into the 40s at idle, and overnight it drops into the 30s (and I do have processor cycling enabled). That NEVER happened with desktop printing on: it stayed pegged at 70˚C no matter what. --V |
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Hardware / PowerBook 1400 HEAT
July 13, 2008, 01:39 |
Nearly two years later, and I finally solved this heat problem (though entirely by accident). I got an error one day that the desktop printer had encountered an error and had shut down. I don't print from my 1400 anyway, so I decided to disable all of the desktop printing extensions altogether. Soon after, the machine seemed noticeably cooler. A look at Gauge Pro confirmed this: the machine was now running as cool as it does under OS 9. For testing purposes I re-enabled the extensions one more time, and the temp immediately rocketed straight up to 70 C again and stayed there. Disable them, reboot, and the temp stays between 50 and 60 C. I never would have guessed to blame printing extensions, so it's pure luck that drew me to the solution. Now I can use 7.6.1 without feeling like I'm compromising a thing! By the way (and this is really a topic for a new thread), I tried a little "hack" I read about elsewhere that lets me run a few apps that claim to require OS 8. If you run Appearance Manager, and use ResEdit to change the vers resource in System from 7.6.1 to 8.1.0, you can run IE 5.1.7, RealPlayer 8, and SoundJam 2.5.3 (and probably more, but those are the 3 I wanted). It seems to work fine. Now I can listen to BBC streams on my 1400 (and wirelessly, no less!). Slick. --V. |
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Software / Speed Doubler/Copy Agent
February 19, 2007, 02:02 |
Ahh, I see that the "smart" functions do work after all. Yay! It's just the scheduling of Copy Agent that is not available. So, my modified query is what utilities are available for scheduled backups. --V |
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Software / Speed Doubler/Copy Agent
February 19, 2007, 01:54 |
I just discovered, to my dismay, that the Copy Agent function of Speed Doubler 8 does not work in System 7.6.1. I loooove the SmartMerge capabilities of that utility in Mac OS 8.5+, so, I was wondering what else is available for System 7.6 that can perform "smart" copies or synchronization-- even better if it can be scheduled. --V. |
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Operating System / Password issues in 7.5.?
January 03, 2007, 04:55 |
Another simple fix is to hold down the Shift key on reboot until you see the "Extensions Disabled" notice. Some of the advanced third-party security tools offered the option to disable this, but I doubt a simple screensaver would. Once the machine is up and running without the extra extensions, you can look in the Control Panels and Extensions folders for likely culprit and drag it to the trash --V |
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Hardware / PowerBook 1400 HEAT
September 09, 2006, 07:06 |
Quote from: "sierraredd" Does the heat cause performance problems? I don't think it's getting hot enough to cause problems. In fact, the XLR8 control panel reports the temp as "normal" even when it has risen to 73C. But heat is the enemy of electronic components, and this machine is already approaching 10 years old, so I don't want to torture it if I don't have to. I'm sure a laptop cooling pad would help quite a bit (I know pointing a desk fan at it does), but I don't see the point when running OS 9.1 solves the problem. This machine is actually pretty nimble with 9.1, and I have another 1400cs/166 than I can use to play around with 7.6.1. --V |
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Hardware / PowerBook 1400 HEAT
September 06, 2006, 05:48 |
Quote from: "sierraredd" How hot does it get with the battery in and how it is out. The temp rockets straight to 70C whether the battery is in, out, or if I'm running from the battery. Interesting that your Sonnet 333 runs cooler than the 166 PPC-- I'd never thought to compare my 1400/166 machine to my two Vimage G3 machines. Sure enough, it feels hotter. Of course, there's no software to actually measure the temp of the PPC 603ev, but the difference is noticeable to the palm of my hand. I've done a bit of reading about Vimage processors, and they seem notorious for running hotter than other brands (some PCI upgrades for desktop machines reportedly have a "normal" operating temp of 85C!), but that still doesn't explain why mine run hot under 7.6.1, but cool (cooler than the original 166, apparently) on 8.6 or 9.1. --V. |
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Hardware / PowerBook 1400 HEAT
September 04, 2006, 22:19 |
Quote from: "dpaanlka" ...Are the Vimage or XLR8 drivers that you are using the same versions you use with OS 8 and 9? Yep, the extension versions are all the same. Funny enough, I used to have a Sonnet 400 MHz for one of my 1400s, but I had nothing but trouble with it. I sold it on eBay so I could buy another Vimage card, and both of my Vimage cards have been rock solid under OS 8.6 and up. That's why this issue was unexpected. By the way, I also tried installing OS 8.1, and it's just as bad as 7.6.1 as far as the heat issue goes. Things only get better at 8.6. --V. |
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Hardware / PowerBook 1400 HEAT
September 04, 2006, 22:04 |
After browsing this web site for a few months, I finally took the plunge and installed 7.6.1 on a spare partition in my PowerBook 1400c with a 233 MHz Vimage G3 processor. I was blown away by the speed-- it suddenly was easily the most responsive machine in the house. But I noticed that the machine felt much warmer than it did running OS 9.1. I fired up Gauge Pro, and sure enough it reported a temp of 70C. Under 9.1 it typically ranges from 52 - 60C. I shut down for awhile and pointed a fan at it until it had thoroughly cooled down, then restarted. Almost immediately the temp shot back up to 70C, and all I had running was Gauge Pro. Next I tried replacing the Vimage VPower cache control extension with the XLR8 MACh Speed Control 1.4.3 (which allows you to control the speed of the backside cache), but no setting would reduce the temp. Then I tried disabling the backside cache altogether, but still no temp reduction. (By the way, I also had processor cycling enabled in the PowerBook control panel through all this). I switched back to OS 9.1 and immediately the temp began to fall back to the typical range that I'm used to seeing. So, my question is, do other people with G3 upgrades (especially PB 1400 users) notice excessive heat under 7.6.1, and does anyone know why there would be such a dramatic difference? Is there advanced power management features in OS 8.6 and later? The heat is significant enough to discourage me from keeping 7.6.1 installed. --V. |
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Software / Another idea...
June 12, 2006, 21:55 |
momo, here's another suggestion. All you need is a copy of LaserWriter Bridge, a control panel Apple slapped together to solve your problem. It sort of provides multi-homing for AppleTalk. You set AppleTalk on your print server Mac to your Ethernet port, and LaserWriter Bridge allows the machine to simultaneously communicate with the printer via the printer port. I have a PowerBook 5300 that I use exactly as you intend to use one of your machines. It is connected to a LaserWriter 360 (an excellent workhorse of a printer), and connected to my home Ethernet network via a PC-Card adapter. The Laserwriter is then available to all of my OS X and Classic machines around the house. I don't know about Windows, though-- that's out of my league. --V. |
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