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Hi guys, I just bought  a Power Mac G4 which according to wikipedia can use the universal install of Mac OS 9.2.2 -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_9#endnote_A1 (I have the PowerMac G4 (quicksilver)) I installed the OS fine but once the installed OS boots it freezes. It seems like this...

Thx for the quick responses guys! Time to lurk on eBay^^

Hi guys, I just bought a DP 800 G4 and I want to replace the videocard. According to Wikipedia the DP800  can use a Geforce 3 (64MB) I do see the odd comment online about using higher spec videocards though (like an FX5500) I plan to use OS 9.2.2 on this machine and use it primarily for...

Here's an easy one (for you guys) Does any1 have a digram of the PCI slots and their speeds for the Power Mac G5 (11,2)? I'm trying to make sure I install a new GPU in the fastest PCI slot on the machine. Looking around the internet I find no diagrams with specific enough labels for the...

Just to loop back on the original purpose of the thread. 10.5.8 works MUCH better on this hardware than 10.4.11 (Power Mac G5 11,2) TenFourFox, web pages in general, system prefs, etc. Only thing that hasn't changed is Stuffit's crappy performance. So I guess that answers my question around...

Thx again for all the help guys. Since I'm still pretty nooby around macs... For the dual booting solution, once I have a drive with two partitions and both versions on them, would I use the Startup Disk utility in System Preferences to switch or is there a boot manager for 10.4 & 10.5?

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any1 know of a way to mount CDs that Classic Mode can see? I tried using CD/DVD Mount from MacGarden and it doesn't work. Makes it difficult to play some of the really epic games in OS 9.

Hi guys, Here's a scenario that only the experienced gurus of the Mac Liberation Army can answer. I'm using a Quad core G5 for games that span the old  Mac Classic all the way to Mac OS (10.4-ish) I'm stuck between two setups for the G5: 1 - Mac OS 10.4.11 using Classic mode and playing...

Thank you guys for the replies.  I think that gives me good context to place the performance of my G5. One correction on my part.  The Stuffit file was 600MB at 10 min, not 60MB.  Sorry for the mistake.  It seems like ppl are expecting this level of performance from Stuffit though.   I guess...

Hi guys, I have a Power Mac G5 (11,2) which should be a screamer with just about everything.  It has 16GB of PC2 4200 RAM and an SSD I'm using TenFourFox and to be honest it's slow. It's much slower than Chrome on Windows 10 with a 3.2GHz i7.  MUCH slower. For example, having two windows...

@rsolberg I used Xbench 1.3 which is compatible with OS 10.4.11  (just found that utility) The 6400 RAM is giving me faster speeds than the 4200 but I don't know if the difference is big enough. The specific benchmarks are 10% to 15% faster with the 6400 modules which are registering as 3200...

@ rsolberg The System Profiler shows PC2-4400-444 when I have the original RAM in it.  With the new sticks (16GB of PC2 6400) the System Profiler shows PC2-3200-288. The amounts are correct but I'm concerned that the CL timing of 288 on the de-clocked 6400 is going to make things slower than...

OK, thanks for the reply guys. So faster clearly won't happen but with PC2 6400 being clocked down to 3200 (and @ 288 CLs) by the G5 will that make things slower than PC2 4200? (which is 444 CLs)

Hi guys, I just installed 16GB of PC2 6400 RAM into a Late 2005 G5 (11,2) The memory is showing as PC2-3200U-288 in the system info. QUESTION 1:  Would I benefit from installing actual PC2 4200 RAM into the machine? (Which is the specified maximum speed for the machine) GeekBench2 in 32 bit...

Hi guys, I'm trying to buy an Nvidia Quadro FX 4500 for my Power Mac G5. I notice on eBay there are a bunch of "mac" Quadros that don't have RAM on both sides as prescribed by this guide. http://g5center.net/index.php?post=the-fx4500--your-g5 Anyone have any experience flashing the firmware...

Hi guys, With your help I got the G5 (hardware 11,2) running Classic Mode. BadGoldEagle posted a link to a Classic Mode tutorial http://web.archive.org/web/20121026093607/http://flylib.com/books/en/4.299.1.61/1/ but the Classic mode on my G5 seems to behave differently A couple of things...

Thx again for the advice on using Classic. Any chance you know about any tutorials on this? The classic icon shows up in preferences but using that environment is a little confusing for me :)

Thx for the info BadGoldEagle!! I'm writing this on a 10.4.11 G5 and it was super easy! I love how macs do everything for you ^^ I'm now trying to get classic mode to run on this thing now :)

Hi guys, I'm trying to install Mac OS 10.4 on a Power Mac G5 (11,2) The install disc I'm using is a 10.4 Install Disk with Xcode 2 that I bought from eBay. When I try to boot from the DVD I get a kernel panic.  The kernel version is Darwin 8.0.0 I then tried to boot into Safe Mode where the...