G4 keeps complaing that "the case is open"!

BelPowerSlave <Belpowerslave.DeleteThis@ev1.net> wrote:

> What makes the G4(AGP Graphics and higher models) believe the case
> really is closed is a small magnet attached to the PCI Extension
> supporters on the top, lefthand side of the case.

Not all AGP G4s have such a switch. My Gigabit Ethernet (the next model
after the Sawtooth) doesn't. I suspect that the Sawtooth was the only
model to have this switch. That would explain why OS X ignores it and
why your buddy at Apple didn't know about it.

Neill Massello wrote:

> BelPowerSlave <Belpowerslave RemoveThis @ev1.net> wrote:
>
> > What makes the G4(AGP Graphics and higher models) believe the case
> > really is closed is a small magnet attached to the PCI Extension
> > supporters on the top, lefthand side of the case.
>
> Not all AGP G4s have such a switch. My Gigabit Ethernet (the next model
> after the Sawtooth) doesn't. I suspect that the Sawtooth was the only
> model to have this switch.

Hmmmmml, interesting, I was lead to believe that all G4's had that...but
it's good to know that they all don't. I wonder if the model below(the G4
PCI Graphics model) has it as well...

> That would explain why OS X ignores it and
> why your buddy at Apple didn't know about it.

Well, I agree with you both points...but it's a defect, or definitely
something that can be a defect, it's something Apple themselves should not
only know about it, but try to get some support published on it. Then
again, if you're not using OSX...Apple could really care less about you...


Bel