Power PC antivirus neededI have a G5 Power PC. My email has been hacked three times in three days. I have worked with Comcast, changed my password each time and within 24 hours I am locked out again. I need to install an anti virus program. I...view more
Thread Connecting a current LED screen to an old BW G3
Connecting a current LED screen to an old BW G3Hi. I'd like to connect my trusty old Blue and White G3 to my new HP Pavillion IPS LED Backlit screen. It has VGA and dual HDMI ports (with HDCP support). Pretty sure I need to change out the video card and find the a...view more
OS X 10.5 Disk Utility Helper Tool ErrorHello! I'm having some troubles with my old Power Mac G5. I'm trying to restore a DMG file to my USB drive, but I keep getting the same error, saying Restore Failure- Lost connection to helper tool. Anyone know how to...view more
PowerMac G5I recently bought a Power Mac G5 with no OS X running on it. When i first power the machine it gave me a white cream with some question mark of that sought. So i realised there was nothing like OS X on it. Now i want ...view more
PowerMac G5 Not Seeing OS X DVDHi, I am working on a PowerMac G5 (Early 2005) 2.7Ghz model for a customer. They brought it to me because they needed a replacement video card because his son broke off a transistor(Some How?). I purchased a new vide...view more
Thread My G4 won't boot when slave HD is plugged in
My G4 won't boot when slave HD is plugged inI've got a baffling problem. Yesterday, I couldn't boot up my G4 with the hard drive, my Leopard disk or TechTool Pro. After many tests, I finally discovered that if I unplugged my second, slave hard drive, I...view more
startup problem solved - for now...My G5 froze at startup after the startup chime, with the Apple logo on the screen. I tried a few things: I replaced the battery, reset the PMU, started up with just one HD and then the other, started up with Command...view more
freehand and pagemakerMy Dad's mac is slow and old. He has 3 in his office because one is capable of using pagemaker; one is capable of using freehand and the other one is the newest and useless as far as I'm concerned. It is s...view more
Start up issue (or rather not starting up)OK, I know this a very old issue. I have had similar before and resolved it with battery removal, replacement and PMU resets. The difference this time is that my fan takes-off at high speed. That might be the source o...view more
Is my Mac G3 compatible with Wifi?I have a very old Mac G3--It is at least 10 years old. I could not find a model number, but I did find a "family number" which is M5183. Is this Mac compatible with Wi-Fi? If so how do I connect? Thanks, &nbs...view more
I have a question about an old G4 cubeSo i bought a G4 cube to mess around with and when installing tiger i noticed that if i let it sit for a few minutes the keyboard and mouse will stop working. I have the keyboard and mouse hooked up to an external dis...view more
Thread PowerMac G5 PRAM/ Open Firmware Reset Trouble
PowerMac G5 PRAM/ Open Firmware Reset TroubleHi, I have a PowerMac G5 DP 2.0 Ghz PCI-X and I could really use someones advice on this. I recently bought this powermac off eBay and once it arrived I put in My Tiger DVD to realize it has an OF password . I then d...view more
G5 won’t boot from HDMy Power Mac G5 running “Tiger” has suddenly decided it doesn‘t want to boot from the hard drive. I normally leave it on all the time, and when I tried to use it today it wouldn’t respond to th...view more
Thread G5 PowerMac Intermittent cycling thru high to low fan speed
G5 PowerMac Intermittent cycling thru high to low fan speedLately, the fans on my summer 2005 Dual 2 G5 will rev up, run high for a few seconds and then slow back down. This happens for apparently no reason — even when Photoshopping or Video work, the fans didn't do thi...view more
PowerMac G5 won't start upJust inherited a dual 2.0GHz PowerMac G5 to replace a Quicksilver G4. I wiped the G5 drive and cloned the G4 disk onto it. It worked fine for a while. Now pressing power generates no chime and no response (can't open ...view more
Power Mac G4 leopard InstallationI really need to ask. I have a power Mac G4. Not the quicksilver one. The one with the floppy drive and stuff. It has a blank hdd. I have leopard disk but I can't boot into it for some reason. I opened it up and the d...view more
Flash 11.5 hack for PowerPCJust wanted to share this. Someone tweaked the last hack so that now it shows up as 11.5. I've tried it and it works. http://scriptogr.am/nordkril/post/adobe-flash-11.5-for-powerpcview more
Power mac g5 will not turn onI just bought a Power Mac g5 from a garage sale. It didn't come with any power cable so i found one that fit. Whenever I plug it in the status light blinks once and i am unable to turn on the Mac. It also doesn't have...view more