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I recently tried upgrading the ram in my iMac G5 iSight 20" with a 1 gig stick of ddr2. The stick had a heatsink on it which I took off for my limited testing. After I put the ram in and turned on the computer, it beeped three times and showed no video. I think three beeps means a ram issue. I...

I have a mac plus I'm working on and when turned on, it makes a loud banging noise. I cleaned and re lubricated the floppy drive and completely disassembled the computer, but it still makes the banging noise. I disconnected the floppy drive inside the computer and the noise stopped, so I think...

I'm trying to boot my powerbook g3 lombard 333mhz from an adelie install usb (the file I've written to the usb is "adelie-live-lxqt-ppc-1.0-beta6-20241223.iso" which seems to be the latest stable desktop iso) but so far, I've had no luck so far. I'm loosely following this guide: Boot Linux or...

(this post is similar to some others but I feel it's different enough for it's own post) My fw800 (dual 1.25Ghz) mdd's psu died a while ago so I replaced it with a cheap Thermaltake 600W atx psu with a conversion cable from ebay. It works fine, however it's too big to close the case so I bought...

I know that it's possible to boot from usb on a 32 bit ppc mac by entering a command into OpenFirmware but would it be possible to code a firmware patch/update that would show usb devices in the boot picker? (by boot picker I mean the menu that pops up when one holds the alt key on startup)...

I have a PowerMac G4 MDD with Leopard currently installed. I'm trying to downgrade to Tiger by booting the install DVD. I have burned three copies of the DVD. All of the DVDs are recognized in the Leopard install, but going to the boot menu shows the HDD but not the DVD, any of the three I...

Would it be possible to run classic MacOS on a homebrew 68k board similar to the 68k-nano? How hard would it be if it's possible?