Anonymous Freak
Well-known member
Tried the process outlined, didn't work. Tried writing it to a USB stick and NetBooting, neither worked.
-
Updated 2023-07-12: Hello, Guest! Welcome back, and be sure to check out this follow-up post about our outage a week or so ago.
iMac G4 as a main computer? Thoughts?
- Thread starter Apostrophe
- Start date
mcdermd
Well-known member
I tried it out. It comes up with
Attempting to boot in 32-bit mode does nothing for me.
I think the boot.efi may be the portion that is blocking it. I do know that the Finder and some of the Core Services included in Lion retail are 64-bit only. There is a project called "Roaring Core" that supposedly, has a working distro of 10.7 for original 32-bit Core processors but they warn that upgrading will break it. I think that they may have simply made a hybrid of DP packages with the retail release to have 32-bit binaries for everything.
Code:
***********************************************************
This Version of Oac OS X is not supported on this platform!
***********************************************************
Reason: Unsupported 32-bit-only CPUI think the boot.efi may be the portion that is blocking it. I do know that the Finder and some of the Core Services included in Lion retail are 64-bit only. There is a project called "Roaring Core" that supposedly, has a working distro of 10.7 for original 32-bit Core processors but they warn that upgrading will break it. I think that they may have simply made a hybrid of DP packages with the retail release to have 32-bit binaries for everything.
Anonymous Freak
Well-known member
In my case, I didn't boot into verbose mode, so I just got the graphical "NO" symbol.
wardsenatorfe92
Well-known member
I hate to hijack this thread, but does anyone know a good way of cleaning these (internally)? I'm pretty sure mine has a good dust build up somewhere around the fan, its making a humming noise. I mean, its not crazy loud, but loud enough that it does get distracting sometimes if there isn't background noise to tune it out. I know there are a few threads about them, but I don't really know all about doing the thermal paste and stuff inside of them. I don't know the history of the machine but I assume its been opened at least once since the internal RAM slot was upgraded. Is that fan noise relatively normal or should it be more quieter? :-/
BGoins12
Well-known member
Fan noise is usually caused by dust buildup on the fan blades or bad airflow from dust stuck on intake holes. I have a PC with a variable speed Thermaltake fan on the CPU, and over time it gets dust built up on the blades and starts to make a loud humming noise. All I do is brush the dust off and no more noise.
I would pull it apart if you can and clean all the dust out... my eMac had a HUGE clump of dust stuck on the CPU heatsink behind the fan. I cleaned it, put Arctic Silver on the CPU and reassembled it. Runs cooler than it did when I got it.
Same thing with my MDD... the front intake under the port holes gets dust buildup faster than anything I've ever seen.
I would pull it apart if you can and clean all the dust out... my eMac had a HUGE clump of dust stuck on the CPU heatsink behind the fan. I cleaned it, put Arctic Silver on the CPU and reassembled it. Runs cooler than it did when I got it.
Same thing with my MDD... the front intake under the port holes gets dust buildup faster than anything I've ever seen.
A can of compressed air has always done a good job cleaning out the dust bunnies. Use it from the top of the dome, and from the bottom side (after removing the bottom steel plate). I've never disassembled my iMac any further. There's no need to use thermal paste if you just remove the bottom steel plate.
ClassicHasClass
Well-known member
I second Forrest's method. It's a lot easier than firing air through the bottom.
ajacocks
Well-known member
Going back to the original topic of this thread, I think that a G4 can be a _very_ usable daily-driver machine. It's all in what you expect, as several previous posters have commented.
I, personally, have a G4 cube, with 1.5gb of RAM, a 250gb IDE HDD, and a 1.5gHz 7447 G4, and a GeForce 6200 hacked video card. That machine runs 10.5 acceptably and 10.4 very well. I have no problem running Safari, on either, and I do want to try Ten-Four-Fox. Basic browsing, and terminals and X11 apps (I'm a *nix SA, by trade) all run just fine.
My mother is running a G4 MDD with 2 1.25gHz G4s and 1gb of RAM, with 10.4. She runs Microsoft Office 2004, and doesn't seem to mind the speed. The fact that 23" ACDs are cheaply available, and she has one, doesn't hurt.
So, as others have said, G4s can be plenty usable. Notice that nowhere above did I list Flash, or FaceCrap, or any other browser-beating web activity. However, I don't run Flash on my late 2010 13" MacBook Air, or my 2008 Mac Pro, either. Flash can get the Mac Pro's fans running to full speed, just because of a stupid pop-up ad. I refuse to use it.
If you do decide to go Intel Mac, Mac Minis are a very good deal. I just saw a 2010 Mac Mini go for $300+ship, last week. I bought my dad a 2009 mini for $225, back in June.
Good luck!
- Alex
I, personally, have a G4 cube, with 1.5gb of RAM, a 250gb IDE HDD, and a 1.5gHz 7447 G4, and a GeForce 6200 hacked video card. That machine runs 10.5 acceptably and 10.4 very well. I have no problem running Safari, on either, and I do want to try Ten-Four-Fox. Basic browsing, and terminals and X11 apps (I'm a *nix SA, by trade) all run just fine.
My mother is running a G4 MDD with 2 1.25gHz G4s and 1gb of RAM, with 10.4. She runs Microsoft Office 2004, and doesn't seem to mind the speed. The fact that 23" ACDs are cheaply available, and she has one, doesn't hurt.
So, as others have said, G4s can be plenty usable. Notice that nowhere above did I list Flash, or FaceCrap, or any other browser-beating web activity. However, I don't run Flash on my late 2010 13" MacBook Air, or my 2008 Mac Pro, either. Flash can get the Mac Pro's fans running to full speed, just because of a stupid pop-up ad. I refuse to use it.
If you do decide to go Intel Mac, Mac Minis are a very good deal. I just saw a 2010 Mac Mini go for $300+ship, last week. I bought my dad a 2009 mini for $225, back in June.
Good luck!
- Alex
Byrd
Well-known member
I'm currently fixing up a free MDD single 1.25Ghz for a friend, who had an iMac G5 1.6Ghz that died (dead caps and for once I don't think I can be bothered fixing). He was more than happy with that machine, so I think with this + more RAM + flashed Geforce 6800 he won't be looking back.
My wife also "downgraded" from a Intel Mac Mini (Core2Duo 1.83) to an iMac G5 2.1GHz 20" model; again while a little slower, she finds that it provides for a much a much nicer computing experience. Being one of the final G5s made, Office 2008 which is usually an absolute dog runs quite nicely on it. I haven't tampered with YouTube/Flash settings yet, but that seems OK too. She is stoked with it, and I get my Mac Mini back for turning into a HTPC
I'd still be using my G4 Cube hadn't I got into the Hackintosh scene, and was able to obtain some cheap PC parts for the process (which if you do your research for the most compatible parts, you can make a sweet machine for very little).
JB
My wife also "downgraded" from a Intel Mac Mini (Core2Duo 1.83) to an iMac G5 2.1GHz 20" model; again while a little slower, she finds that it provides for a much a much nicer computing experience. Being one of the final G5s made, Office 2008 which is usually an absolute dog runs quite nicely on it. I haven't tampered with YouTube/Flash settings yet, but that seems OK too. She is stoked with it, and I get my Mac Mini back for turning into a HTPC
I'd still be using my G4 Cube hadn't I got into the Hackintosh scene, and was able to obtain some cheap PC parts for the process (which if you do your research for the most compatible parts, you can make a sweet machine for very little).
JB
Similar threads
