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  1. asdfguy86

    PCI USB Card Compatibility Question

    Hello everyone. It's been a (very long) while since I've logged onto MacRumors, but I have a question regarding a PCI USB card. I have a PCI USB 2.0 card that is made by NEC and has an NEC chipset in it, and I was wondering will it or should it work in a Power Mac G4 MDD model? Everywhere I...
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    • mdd g4 mdd powermac nec pci card pci usb card pci usb card mac os powermac powermac g4 powermac g4 mdd powerpc ppc g5
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: PowerPC Macs
  2. Mac03ForLife

    OSX Lion or HiSierra

    Hello I bought my 13 inch MBP (2.4ghz i5, 4gb RAM, 500 SATA HDD) in 2011 with OSX 10.7 preinstalled. It worked super well back then, and eventually it was put in a closet for 3 years due to the emergence of my parent's old powermac g5, which I began to use as my primary mac. After 3 years of...
  3. kevinakerberg

    Is it possible to put a Radeon 9800 Pro from a PowerMac G5 into a PowerMac G4?

    Hi everyone. I'm looking to upgrade either a Digital Audio, Quicksilver, or Mirrored Drive Door PowerMac G4. I've got everything decided except the video card. I've stumbled upon a really good deal on a Radeon 9800 Pro. Given that it has an ADC port I'm assuming that it's out of a PowerMac G5...
  4. Mac03ForLife

    CD/DVD Drive Dead on PMacG5?

    Hi. I recently inherited a PowerMac G5 (Dual 1.8, 512mb RAM), and I went to load an Audio CD into the Pioneer optical drive, and it just spun, made a few honking noises, and spit it out. I have extra IDE as well as SATA optical drives, any suggestions / How easy is it to replace this drive...
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    • cd drive mac osx powermac powermac g5 powermac g5 2017 powerpc
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: PowerPC Macs
  5. kevinakerberg

    Resolved Upgrades for Digital Audio PowerMac G4

    Hi everyone, I have a dual processor 533Mhz PowerMac G4 DA that I want to max out for a YouTube video. However I am not familiar with any compatible upgrades for the DA systems. Here's the current specs: CPU: 2x PowerPC G4 7410's @ 533Mhz GPU: ATI Rage 128 Pro with 16MB of VRAM RAM: 1.5GB SDRAM...
  6. iulop

    Powermac g4 freezes on boot

    My powermac g4 firewire 800 dual 1.42 gh 2gb of ram sometimes freezes at boot .That rainbow cursor wheel appears and my mac simply freezes . I am running mac os tiger on it . Can someone help me please ?
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    • firewire 800/800 freezes help me powermac powermacg4 problem
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: PowerPC Macs
  7. AppleAsker

    Resolved iMac G3 - Partitioning Hard Drive for OS 9 + OS X Dual Boot

    Hey y'all, I'm trying to install Mac OS X 10.3 Panther on my Indigo iMac G3. The iMac has a 20 GB hard drive, and already has Mac OS 9.2.2 installed on it. I'm planning to do that by splitting the hard drive in half using Disk Utility on the Panther install disk, then installing OS X on the...
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    • imac imac g3 mac mac os 9 mac os x powerbook powermac powerpc
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: PowerPC Macs
  8. AppleAsker

    Removing Magic Eraser scratches on iMac G3

    Hey everyone, I bought an iMac G3 Indigo 500 MHz from Summer 2001. It was pretty dirty, had sticker residue and paint everywhere on it, and the mouse was encrusted with dirt. I mean, that thing was dirty. So, I decided to clean the whole darn thing up with some Goo Gone, Mr. Clean spray and...
  9. doggoli

    I Remade Some Old Apple Posters!

    I wanted to hang a vintage Apple poster in my room and i didn't wanna pay for the originals. So i came to the idea to simply print them out and stick them around my room, but all of the images of the posters online were either crappy ebay pictures or VERY low res...I got to work and recreated 8...
  10. MacSoftware3

    PPC and Leopard as Daily Driver

    Hello everybody, I am new to this forum, and I was suprised to see an active PPC community. But I am wondering, do people here still use PowerMac G3s, G4s and G5s as a daily driver for tasks like webbrowsing/YouTube? How does that still work on a machine like a PowerMac G3 and an older OS like...
  11. Project Alice

    another g5 startup thread

    Hi all, I have a dual 2.0 G5, it sat for a little over a year but the last time it was hooked up it worked just fine and never really had any issues until now. It starts up, chimes. and thats it. No video. I can hear hard disk activity for a couple seconds, my display light turns green for...
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    • chimes no video powermac powermac g5 powermacg5 ppc ppc g5
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: PowerPC Macs
  12. thefriendshipmachine

    powermac g5 that runs too hot, LCS bad?

    Hi friends :) I am so sorry if this was asked before, because I know the computer is old, but I still like it. I bought a powermac g5 and the seller claimed it works fine. It does turn on and boots into MacOS except that one CPU reaches 83C. The other CPU reaches 40C. I wish I could show you...
  13. pet84rik

    Resolved Boot options not working (PM G4)

    Hi guys, I am new here and I just bought my first Mac, an older PowerMac G4 AGP (400/1G/40G). The only bigger issue is that I am not able to boot any other media than OSX one (burned DVD). When I am trying to boot with Option key or CMD+OPT+F+O, screen stays blank (power saving on monitor)...
  14. PowerMac G5

    Powermac G5 Reflow/Heatgun Fix

    I have a dead PowerMac G5 that appears to have a BGA RAM Slot failure, I have heard that some people have had success using a heatgun or an oven to rejoin the solder joint. Has anyone had any success (or failures) attempting to do this. When I turn on my PowerMac I don't get the 3 flashing lights.
  15. PowerMac G5

    PowerMac G5 No Boot

    Purchased a PowerMac G5 DP 2.5GHz PCIx Liquid Cooled a few weeks ago on an online classified site (it was only $10 so I might as well) the previous owner said that the mac would "boot when cold and wouldn't turn on when hot". Took it home, thinking it was an issue with the LCS I opened the...
  16. H

    Spotify also works on 10.4!

    Hi folks, I don't know if this has been posted / found out before, so I feel sorry if that's true. Today, I was browsing the PPC archive on my PowerMac G4 running Tiger. I found Spotify and it looked cool to be able to stream music on a 15 year old computer. Unfortunately, according to PPC...
  17. AmazingHenry

    Is PowerPC Better Than Old Intel Macs?

    So, I have a PowerMac G5 that I'm currently using as a main Mac. I was thinking about moving to my late 2006 iMac with a Core 2 Duo 1.83GHz. It has a broken screen, but I can connect it to one of my ACDs. But is it really the right thing to do? Firefox will soon be discontinuing support for 10.6...
  18. devon807

    PowerMac G4 Dual 1.42GHz MDD value?

    Hello forums! I have a PM G4 MDD Dual 1.42 GHz, and was looking to sell it on, how much should I sell it for?
  19. 1042686

    Hi everybody. G4 rebuild fun

    I found a QS G4 box out on the curb getting rained on. It was missing a HDD and the optical drive was busted. It was crazy dirty on the inside lol. Luckily I had a buncha old IDE stuff so I cleaned out the tower, replaced the missing bits, and it booted right up sans OSX. A quick 10.4.11 install...
  20. E

    youtube on powerpc?

    As we all know because of flash youtube runs poorly on any powermac. So i was wondering what solutions you guys have!
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