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I posted this alredy on the Tonymac forum so apologies if you have already seen it...
A couple of years ago I picked up a couple of G4 Powermacs and a G3 Powermac from Ebay for about £10 each. I have built one Hackintosh for a friend and one for myself...
Started by spackley on
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Nice work!
Gotta love the color of that case, that blueish color feels like heaving >: ) looking good! it seems nice and serviceable too. .
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Today started a bit boring with not knowing what I would do to keep myself busy. After having lost twice with Warcraft III multiplayer, done the dishes and fed the plants, I decided I should finally work out my plan of turning my PowerMac 6500/275 (the...
Started by highlandcattle on
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by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at 68kmla):
I had BeOS R5 made some very old hardware feel new, ....
Assign a manual IP) - Black MacBook 2,1 BeOS on a lot of the PCI PowerMacs is actually pretty awesome.
On add network interface and choose yours (onboard powermac most likely).
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Hi,
I thought we could use this new thread to cover info about the PowerExpress 9700 prototype powermac and efforts to get them booting.
Past information to getting mine to boot is on this thread: viewtopic.php?f=12&t=9297 and over at applefritter: http...
Started by jimjamyahauk on
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by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at 68kmla):
This is a PowerMac 9700 ROM.
That the ROM checksum in PowerMacs only validates the Mac OS Toolbox portion and skips the hardware: Select all // Source 3: Tattletech running on PEX
case 0x46001F1B: cout << " PowerMac 9700.
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So earlier on this week, my 2x3.2 ghz quad core mac froze... was completely unresponsive, so I force shut it down. It re booted fine then after a few minutes its froze again... I shut it down again, it froze again.
I left it for the night, switched it...
Started by bugusflair on
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by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at cnet):
Bob PowerMac or Mac Pro? The distinction is important, because PowerMacs were PPC systems....
Clean it up and replace all heat sink compounds as well as inspect for the old BAD CAPS issues (see and then ask for the OK to get the work done.
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So earlier on this week, my 2x3.2 ghz quad core mac froze... was completely unresponsive, so I force shut it down. It re booted fine then after a few minutes its froze again... I shut it down again, it froze again.
I left it for the night, switched it...
Started by bugusflair on
, 5 posts
by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at cnet):
Bob PowerMac or Mac Pro? The distinction is important, because PowerMacs were PPC systems....
Clean it up and replace all heat sink compounds as well as inspect for the old BAD CAPS issues (see and then ask for the OK to get the work done.
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So what are you guys using for AGP video cards in AGP Powermacs these days? I have a ATI 9000 in one of my Quicksilvers, Geforce 4 MX in the other and a GF 2 something or other in my Dual G4-500 Sawtooth.
There used to be some sites on the net for hacking...
Started by Unknown_K on
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by 6 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at 68kmla):
Also, there is no card that supports core image in OS X as well as being old enough for OS 9.
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Guys, what is the best AGP card for the Powermac that I can buy to flash?
Started by California on
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by 8 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at macrumors):
My old friend Arti wrote the DVI enabled ROM.
My old friend Arti can be had pretty cheap...neighborhood of $30-50.
Big bonus is that PC ones can be had pretty cheap...neighborhood of $30-50 .
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Over the last year or so I have become obsessed with the history of PPC-based Macs. Ever since then I've been into acquiring and making use of the older machines. As you can see in my sig, I have two 500MHz iMac G3s, two 400-450MHz PowerMac G4s, and a...
Started by alexreich on
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Hey I am looking into buying a powermac G5 off craigslist. The guy says everything works but he took the hard drive. So this made me think the operating system is gone. Therefore I would have to find a copy of leopard, plus its a non intel machine. Am...
Started by Klae on
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by 8 people.
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The only thing that....
Basically using it as NAS but i do surf the web/emails on the wall .
The guy says everything works but he took the hard is blazing have all my old dos games on it too.
Looking into buying a powermac G5 off craigslist.
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I have recently gotten a Powermac G5, and was trying to clone the hard drive to upgrade to a 500gb hard drive, it didn't work. I had the Apple OSX Leopard disc in it, to attempt a different cloning process, but now, when it's starting up, it shows a split...
Started by neo853 on
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by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at apple):
Http://www.bombich.com.
Get carbon copy cloner to make an exact copy of your old HD to the New one...
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