Power Mac G5

[~tl]

Yeah, the early iMac shipped with a special version of 8.1 which included USB support IIRC.

 

[bluekatt]

it had an special usb enbabler 8.5 eliminated the need for the enabler

rev b came with 8.5 installed it had a faster video chip and 6 mb vram instead of 2

and thats all that was differnt about rev b

 

[bamdad]

stupid question, i presume, but how can i tell if mine is rev. a or b?

 

[Dan 7.1]

whats the VGA card? under the Apple System Profiler if its labeled as a Rage IIc with 2MB VRAM then its rev-a, if its a Rage Pro with 6MB its revb.

 

[~tl]

whats the VGA card? under the Apple System Profiler if its labeled as a Rage IIc with 2MB VRAM then its rev-a, if its a Rage Pro with 6MB its revb.

You shouldn't trust the VRAM amount to tell the difference, since a 4MB upgrade card was sold for the rev. A iMacs (to take them to 6MB). Though, I'd be willing to bet the majority of machines just have 2MB.

However, as you also said, the rev. A has a Rage IIc and the rev. B-D have a Rage Pro. So that's the easiest way to tell.

 

[Dan 7.1]

ah really? well there you go. although a Rage IIc with 6MB seems like kind of a waste

 

[bluekatt]

stupid question, i presume, but how can i tell if mine is rev. a or b?

go to system profiler and look at the video card ( not v ram )

if its a rage pro you have a rev b if it a rage II lc its a rev A

other then that the two ar eidential the rage pros is just a slightly better video card with more on board ram

 

[bamdad]

thanks guys.

i took the whole machine apart, it has 6 mbytes of vram and it has a rage pro. what still surprises me is that it boots 8.1 nicely (the only problem being that in 8.1 i cannot adjust the screen size, position etc. in monitors and sound, but this is normal, i think, since the 8.1 system is universal and is not for imacs).

 

[bluekatt]

sounds like you have a retail os 8 .1 cd

 

[bamdad]

madmax: tried everything you wrote, nothing helped, although now i am starting to get the idea that it needs a new pram battery since it has never been replaced (since 2003!).. thanks for helping anyway.

and to the others, i bought a series one macbook. pismos are hard to get around here.. but since it is not 68k or even a powermac, this is not the place to post about it.

 

[bluekatt]

but it runs mac os thats good enough ;p

 

[bubbleman7546]

g4 tibooks have pcimia...

 

[coius]

not sure if you thought of this, but have you thought of an eMac? Try a 1.25 or 1.42GHz eMac? I have one. The only reason why it died was because I was extra-dumb and messed with the logic board on overclocking, and royally screwed it up. I am currently hoping to get another board that I have my eyes on. I will let you know if I get it!!!

 

[bluekatt]

g4 tibooks have pcimia...

since when ?

my G4 400 mhz tibook did not have one

 

[Patrickool93]

All TiBooks have PC card slots...

 

[bluekatt]

the 12 inch G4's do not

 

[LCGuy]

No, they don't, but if you had a TiBook 400, then it would've had one...TiBooks were only made with a 15.2" display, and I can confirm that they all definately had PC Card slots.

 

[bamdad]

not sure if you thought of this, but have you thought of an eMac? Try a 1.25 or 1.42GHz eMac? I have one. The only reason why it died was because I was extra-dumb and messed with the logic board on overclocking, and royally screwed it up. I am currently hoping to get another board that I have my eyes on. I will let you know if I get it!!!

if this is a reply to me, then you bet, i would love one, but they are extremely rare (in my country). i saw somebody modding one into a homebuilt g5-looking case after the monitor stopped working. and it is sweeeeeet. even the original looks great.

so if i see one i will surely buy it, although i have only seen broken ones so far. could you give a link to a quality specs page? thanks in advance..

 

[bluekatt]

why not a G4 mini instead ? they are literally headless emacs

 

[bamdad]

g4 mac mini? i thought the first ever mac minis had a g5 processor. btw, i have (or will have, at least) a g4 quicksilver but that is way slower than the emac.