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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I just bought a powerMac G5 with the Quad core 2.5GHz CPUs   :) This machine is a super find (I plan on maxing out the memory and putting in an SSD)  I dreamt about owning this machine when it was out in 2005 and now 10+ years later I have one! :)     I was wondering if there any opinions...

Hi guys, So there are some games that I want to run from MacIntosh Garden which need Mac OS 9. (Marathon in particular, anything in color) I've been looking around to see what my options are. There are a few but being so new to Mac I can't figure out which is the best one. So I need your...

Hi guys, So the saga continues... Put together the iBook G4 with the SSD in place.  Boots up great and the machine is acceptably fast now (also installed more memory) However, when I duplicated the previous drive onto the SSD (I used DD on Ubuntu), it turns out it didn't do that magic that...

Hi guys, So I went headlong into this.  I did watch a couple of Youtube videos on replacing an HDD on this iBook but apparently the lessons didn't sink in... My main problem is that something fell out and I don't know where it came from. (Pictures below of the part) It looks like a spring...

Hi guys, I'm new to macs in general so please takee it easy on me... :b&w: I just recently got an iBook G4 and want to replace the HDD with an SSD. Two issues that people have mentioned but seem to have no hard information about: 1 - The pin set-up of the original HDD.  Some people have...