PowerMac G5 SSDI have a HyperX Fury 240GB SSD, and I want to put it into an old PowerMac G5. I connected the cables correctly and insured all was in working order, but when I boot into the Leopard CD and into Disk Utility the drive ...view more
Flatline power Macs with AV in?I'm thinking of a Mac Museum with a trimmed down SE/30 hooked up to a power Mac's AV in. Which Power Macs have an AV in Port that are also flatline? Thank you.view more
PowerMac G4 bios lock?I Purchased a PowerMac G4 Quicksilver off of my buddy, I quickly decided to tear it down and clean every square inch, whilst I was doing so I knocked off a resistor from the logicboard, so I bought a new motherboard. ...view more
Artic silver applicationArctic Silver has very precise instructions on how to apply it to a long and wide history of AMD and Intel CPU/s it, however, completely ignores Power PC chips. Does anyone know of a link or have an older instruction ...view more
Powering Down?My PowerMac G4 is powering down before it gets to the desktop. Can anyone tell me how to fix it or tell me what is wrong or both?view more
Old Mac. Need helpHi, I am new to the Mac world. I found a very old mac the Power Mac G4 the original owner took out the hard drive because of privacy. I got the correct hard drive for the mac and I am very confused because Apple won't...view more
Thread Can I add two monitors to a Power Macintosh G3?
Can I add two monitors to a Power Macintosh G3?I have a faithful and well loved 1997 Power Macintosh G3 minitower, running Mac OS 9.2.2, and I was thinking about adding a 16 inch Macintosh Color Display (CRT) to the slightly older 14 inch Macintosh Color Display (...view more
PPC PowerMac G5 doesn't detect SSD drive at boot startHello, I just come back with another question to all of you guys who are always helpful. I wanted to replace my hard drive to a faster one, SSD. The drive is MICRON 128Gb. When I plug it in as a secondary dri...view more
Networking G4 PowerMac for back upSo I have my G4 up and running and networked with my Mac and other PCs. OSX Tiger and three internal drives are in the G4. I'd like to use it as my home server for backup data.I noticed sluggish performance. Can I con...view more
PowerMac G4 needs OSX upgradeI'm trying to upgrade my Power Mac G4 from OSX 10.4 to something more contemporary (10.11 would be nice.). The Mac App Store doesn't exist on OSX 10.4. Is there a way to install a historical version that introd...view more
flashing nvidia/dell geforce 7800 GTX 512 PCIeHello there I finally got the purpose to replace the 6600 of my G5 quad, and bought a pc nvidia/dell geforce 7800 GTX 512 PCIe (and the power cable separately) Now I have to flash it (uf!). I´ve ...view more
Thread What kind of USB PCI Card should I get for a 1997 PowerMac G3?
What kind of USB PCI Card should I get for a 1997 PowerMac G3?I have a 1997 beige PowerMac G3, running system 9.2... I bought a USB PCI card for the machine, as it has no USB jacks, but the OS supports them. The item description says the PCI should work for PowerMacs G3 through ...view more
Can I upgrade my MAC G4 to OS X 10.6?I am trying to bring my old Pro Tools computer back to life. It has Mac OS 10.2.8 933 mhz, over 1 GB of RAM and 70 GB of hard drive space. Is it possible to bring it up to date? I believe I need to r...view more
