TarableCode
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Hi!
I just got this Quicksilver G4 with 1GB ram and 1.4GHz CPU upgrade and it seems to work in OS9 but under OSX it will just power off after a few minutes.
First time it happened when it restarted one of the 3 hard drives died.
I removed it and installed a clean OS9 and it seems to boot up fine and not power itself off, Tiger will cause a power off within a few minutes of starting the installer.
The CPU fans are running so it shouldn't be thermal protection kicking in.
I haven't touched PPC hardware in a while and this is my first "real" G4 so I'm not quite sure where to start.
Power could be an issue, I do have 2 hdds installed along with the dvd drive and the only keyboard I have is this OMGRGBLED keyboard so maybe it's just too much power used...
On the other hand it did it when booted by usb instead of cd as well.
Memory I have no idea how to test since the tools seem to require osx to be installed in the first place.
Any thoughts would be appreciated for $40CAD I have no regrets
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12v and 5v rails seem to be fine.
I just got this Quicksilver G4 with 1GB ram and 1.4GHz CPU upgrade and it seems to work in OS9 but under OSX it will just power off after a few minutes.
First time it happened when it restarted one of the 3 hard drives died.
I removed it and installed a clean OS9 and it seems to boot up fine and not power itself off, Tiger will cause a power off within a few minutes of starting the installer.
The CPU fans are running so it shouldn't be thermal protection kicking in.
I haven't touched PPC hardware in a while and this is my first "real" G4 so I'm not quite sure where to start.
Power could be an issue, I do have 2 hdds installed along with the dvd drive and the only keyboard I have is this OMGRGBLED keyboard so maybe it's just too much power used...
On the other hand it did it when booted by usb instead of cd as well.
Memory I have no idea how to test since the tools seem to require osx to be installed in the first place.
Any thoughts would be appreciated for $40CAD I have no regrets
e:
12v and 5v rails seem to be fine.
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