My PowerMac has been delievered!

[ealex79]

Hi!

I finally got my PowerMac G4 Sawtooth 400 MHz I bought on eBäh..

After threatening with court and lawyer they finally just sent it. [}] ]'>

It's completely original. All parts as they were when the Mac came out of production.

I put a spare 120 GB ATA drive in it, and installed several OSes on it. And I put my RTL 8185 WLan card in it because I don't want to have other network cables lying around...

But that one does work only in 10.3 and 10.4.

I have a few questions on the Mac:

The DVD-ROM reads only CD's, nothing else. Is it defect? Dirty?

Do you know if there is any chances to use the Realtek card with OS 9?

Does anybody have a Mac OS 8.6 for that specific model? [)] ]'>

 

[quinterro]

As far as I know the RTL 8185 only has drivers for 10.3 and 10.4. There are no other MacOS drivers on Realtek's web site.

 

[Quadraman]

Maybe the DVD ROM drive was replaced? Click Blue Apple--->About this Mac--->More info--->Disc burning to see what kind of drive you have. If it says reads DVD No, then you don't have a DVD player.

 

[ealex79]

It is an Matshita DVD ROM drive...

It reads CD's with any problem, so I think dirt shouldn't be a problem.

:-x