sos_nz
Well-known member
Seems like only recently I acquired a G5 dual 2.3Ghz. As fun as that has been to get running with an SSD and upgrade to 16GB RAM and an x1900GT, I really wanted a machine capable of booting OS9 natively.
So was lucky enough to pick up a G4 MDD (1Ghz single core) with 2GB of RAM, a 120GB mechanical drive, and the stock Radeon 9000 GPU, for around $130USD. Unfortunately the graphics card was/is dying, and had numerous artefacts (yellow tinge, vertical lines, and a box around the mouse cursor in OS9). After trying a recap, checking the PSU (by wiring up an ATX adapter) and even reflashing it to the latest firmware, it was still no good, and eventually stopped displaying the boot screen / open firmware / boot picker screen.
So, managed to find a Mac 9650 and removed R15 and R60 SMD resistors to allow it to work in the G4's 4x AGP slot. Success!
Have now got OS9, Tiger and Sorbet Leopard running on their own partitions on a 256GB SSD (via a cheap & cheerful $5 IDE/SATA adapter).
Fun times!
So was lucky enough to pick up a G4 MDD (1Ghz single core) with 2GB of RAM, a 120GB mechanical drive, and the stock Radeon 9000 GPU, for around $130USD. Unfortunately the graphics card was/is dying, and had numerous artefacts (yellow tinge, vertical lines, and a box around the mouse cursor in OS9). After trying a recap, checking the PSU (by wiring up an ATX adapter) and even reflashing it to the latest firmware, it was still no good, and eventually stopped displaying the boot screen / open firmware / boot picker screen.
So, managed to find a Mac 9650 and removed R15 and R60 SMD resistors to allow it to work in the G4's 4x AGP slot. Success!
Have now got OS9, Tiger and Sorbet Leopard running on their own partitions on a 256GB SSD (via a cheap & cheerful $5 IDE/SATA adapter).
Fun times!
