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According to Low End Mac, the 5500 uses 7.5.5 through 9.1 for system software. I found a 7.6 universal CD on eBay and bought it, intending to put that on the 5500 as one of the operating systems (the others being 8.6 and 9.1). I tried it out, and nothing...this computer doesn't support this or...

I've been trying to get 6.0.8L working on my LC II...not as easy as it should be...(Anyone have any hints??) I think I got a complete install finally, but when I tried booting from it, I got the happy Mac icon and chime, then a blank grey screen, then the happy Mac again; this repeated a couple...

What is the large open space for to the right of the hard drive when looking inside a 5400/5500 from the back panel? There seems to be a spare power cable or something, but no other connectors that might attach to anything...

I've got a USB/Firewire CD writer I am trying to get to work with the 5500. I have a Belkin F5U008 USB/Firewire PCI card in the PCI slot. I am running 9.1 (which apparently has the Firewire extensions built-in) and installed the USB Support 1.4.1 from Apple, and the have the Toast OS9 extensions...

Can a PowerMac 5500 use PC100 RAM? It looks like the same size and pin configuration, but I'm not 100% sure. Thanks!

I'm in the midst of organising my old Macs, and the Quadra 605 that was working fine previously all of a sudden won't start up. It chimes, the hard drive starts to spin up, then it spins down again before anything else has happened, and the flashing question mark comes up on screen. The turn...