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macos10.5

  1. PowerPCFan

    CPU temps seem high, is this normal?

    Hi. I was using Audacity to record music from my keyboard (as in piano keyboard) with my PowerBook G4 that has Digital Audio in port. Then I noticed the CPU was getting up to 165°F when using Audacity, and 130°F when backing up HDD with Time Machine. Is this too hot for an 867 MHz G4 CPU? I just...
    • PowerPCFan
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    • 2000s 867mhz audacity macos10.5 old overheating timemachine
    • Replies: 18
    • Forum: PowerPC Macs
  2. Thezachary

    I cannot get my iMac G4 to run Leopard

    I have a iMac g4 running tiger(10.4.11) and I can’t get it to run leopard. I’ve tried everything: booting from usb solicits an error message that I have to force shutdown my computer. It doesn’t read the dvd and simply ejects it. I even tried partitioning the disk and mounting one partition as...
    • Thezachary
    • Thread
    • imac imacg4 macos10.4 macos10.5 macosleopard macostiger macosx powerpc
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: PowerPC Macs
  3. Thezachary

    iMac G5 unresolved kernel trap

    A few days ago, I tried to restore the hard drive of my iMac G5 from an install disk - while it was running off of the hard drive. I quickly realized my mistake when letters literally started disappearing from the screen. when I try to turn it on, it gets stuck on the Apple logo with the loading...
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