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I've tried searching for my topic but, so far, no hits. I have my SE/30 and it's a great computer. The CRT is very sharp but I'm noticing that it's getting harder to see what's on the screen. My eyes are having a problem seeing the small display clearly. I'm not willing to give my SE/30 up...

No, I referring to the classic environment included with OS X 10.4 Tiger. It's no longer supported in 10.5 and later. Well, I've been having problems repasting the G5. I pulled the MBout of the chassis and there are 3 chips that require cooling. The G5 and GPU on the top of the MB and a 3rd...

To All, the title says most of it. I have an HP Color Laserjet Pro, MFP M477fdw that is on my local wired network and prints fine for my modern PCs, a Dell XPS 9710 running win 11, a 2013 MBP (last allowed OS by Apple), an M1 MBP (running Tahoe) and my old HP Pavilion dv7 (this runs win 10, but...

I had problems finding an SSD large enough that the iMac G5 would connect to. Most of them (Samsung 840 Pro, 256 and 512 GBs) would not be recognised whether the SSD was formatted or not. I settled on a guess buying a PNY 2TB SSD and a Corsair mounting bracket. The PNY was recognised as a...

I used HFS Standard to format my drives. As I understand it, HFS Standard is more backwards compatible with older Macs which is a concern for me. Now that I have my iMac G5 up and running on 10.5 (for now), I formatted an external SATA SSD drive and HFS Standard was not an option. CRAP! Gerry

adespoton - Thank you for the re-direct to the macos9lives website. I think this is the missing link I need to figure out my last set of issues with the PM6500. It's been running much better since replacing the System Folder. I now hope to find out if the PM can run OSX 10.0. Thank you, Gerry

I tried to use OS9 Helper but I kept getting errors when trying to install the 9.2.1 update. I found another entry in the Macintosh Repository about 9.2.2 System file for pre-G3 Power Macs. Replacing my 9.1 System File with this one brought me up to 9.2.2 and fixed my problems with freezing...

As I posted in "PM6500 and Upgrading to 9.2.2" upgrading to 9.2.2 fixed most all of my problems with the PM6500. It no longer freezes when copying gigabytes of data from one drive to another, KeyChain now works with no errors and I've been able to upgrade to Mac OS 9.2.2. In the OS 9.2.2...

I'm happy to report that I've been able to upgrade my Mac OS 9.1 to 9.2.2 and all my login issues are resolved. As I said before, I downloaded a 9.2.2 System folder for Pre-G3 PowerMacs from the Macintosh repository but being compressed I had to install Toast Titanium 5.2.1 to expand it back to...

As is well known, a PowerMacintosh 6500 can not be officially upgraded beyond OS 9.1. I am running a CD clean install of OS 9.1 on my IDE SD card but am having issues with Keychain. Basically, if I boot the PM6500 first completely to desktop and then start up my LC475 and SE/30 (both running...

Thank you mikes-macs for your tenacity and posting. I decided to take the LC475 and SE/30 off of the AppleTalk network and put an ethernet card in the LC475 and use my Asante EN/SC to put the SE/30 on ethernet via its SCSI bus. Now communication between all three Macs works much faster and...

Hi, you all, I've got a bit to report. After figuring out the boot sequence on the PM6500, I started working on installing 9.2.2 over 9.1. OS 9.1 has some very specific issues with Keychain. As background, I moved the LC475 and SE/30 over to ethernet. The LC475 has a card installed and the...

I'll make this short - I have a PM6500 running 9.1, fresh install from CD. I also have an LC475 and SE/30 on the same home network. Originally, had the LC475 and SE/30 on an Appletalk network bridging over to the PM 6500's PCI ethernet card, but the printer and modem ports on the SE/30 are worn...

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Here's what I found but I don't know if it's right...... Setting boot priority on a PowerMac 6500/300 with IDE and SCSI drives Unlike modern PCs with a BIOS, Power Macs (like your 6500/300) utilize the Open Firmware, which doesn't have a traditional BIOS menu for setting boot device order. The...

Also, this reinstalling the OS has brought up another issue. I have connected an internal BlueSCSI in place of the 100 MB Zip and installed OS 9.1 on an SD card using an IDE to SD card adapter (no spinning rust). My question here is who has boot priority within the 6500? When a valid OS is in...

Okay, an update. I received a copy of the full OS 9.1 installation CD today. I've been waiting for it as I've been having issues with the original 9.1 installation. As I copied files from one drive to others organizing the 6500/300 it would freeze and crash. I originally purchased a 6500...

Both the LC475 and SE/30 are running 7.5.3 rev. 2. Open Transport is active on all of the Classic Macs. Presently, I'm unable to reinstall OS 9.1 on the 6500 as I don't have an install disk but have one on order. The recovery disk for the 6500 installs 8.0 which appears to cause issues. The...

To update this, I downloaded some 9.1 images but they unzipped to .toast files and simply don't work with BlueSCSI v2 even though the internet says it should. But here's where it got weird. I restored the PM6500 using a restore CD but it comes with 8.1. So I booted off of that and was able to...

I'm updating the thread with the lastest issue I've run into. The PM6500 is up and on the network and can talk to my LC475 without issue. It's not the same with the SE/30. I'm using a BlueSCSI with WiFi to get it on line and that works great. But the SE/30 has it's own network called...