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powermac g5 quad

  1. Ooze

    Custom 2.0 Powermac G5 Quad (Codename: "Quadfrost")

    Howdy y'all. Long time no see. in 2022 I received a pcie Powermac G5 dual core 2.0 (not dual cpu) because a friend of mine was emptying out some old stuff of his mother's and because he knew I was a macmodding guy he gave it to me. I installed linux on it, played around, compiled a bunch of...
  2. W

    Help buying a powermac g5 (quad especially), I think I'm searching for the wrong thing?

    Hi, I'm trying to get a powerpc64 computer to run linux on, as I need it to compile my code for a mate (long story), and, to my knowledge, the g5s are basically the only option other than spending a couple hundred quid on a pseries server. I want to get the late 2005 g5 quad, as it's got the...
  3. B

    Power Mac G5 longevity and usability questions

    After having previously purchased 2 of these aluminum monsters, I plan to keep them alive for as long as the hardware will allow me to (and hopefully push them to their limits). That leads to my questions: What should the standard procedure be to keeping these things operating optimally? I...
  4. T

    Saving my 2,5ghz liquid cooled PowerMac G5

    Hi community, so I have my old PowerMac G5 Late 2005 with 2,5 ghz dual cpu single Delphi pump laying around, but it’s broken. It immediately overheats, which makes me suspect the pump. That LCS is just unusable for me and I am not experienced enough to bother fixing it. So I searched on eBay and...
  5. PowerfulEra

    Does x1900 xt work with g5 quad?

    I had an 1950 xt flashed on my quad but sadly it died and cant find a proper replacment gpus here for the machine on mac os x. Only options i have is the x1900 gt v2 or x1900 xt from mac pro. Do you guys think that 1900 xt will work on the quad with ppc rom or should i get the x1900 gt.
  6. M

    Beloved Quad G5 black screen and no chime.. Please help!

    I bought an HP Quadro FX 4500 and flashed it for use on the G5 per instructions on the macforums. The flash didn't work, it resulted in a black screen on the G5. I put in the old video card and heard a chime but no video. I tried to reset the board by pressing the switch same response . I...
  7. tevion5

    Resolved G5 Quad: Vanishing Ram?

    Earlier this week I booted up my G5 Quad to find only 12 of my 16GB Memory was showing up. I've had 16GB working without issue for 1-2 years now. DIMMs 4 & 5 were showing up empty despite that not being true. Haven't had to go fiddling inside for a long time so I'm surprised anything changed...