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Q: Upgrade Video Ram

Hi there, Im getting ready to sell my iBook G4 1.33ghz and i have quite some work to do. One being Video ram. It only has 32mb. Has ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 graphics. Any help would be appreciated.

iBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8), PowerBook 6,5

Posted on Aug 6, 2015 6:04 AM

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  • by aneale2310,

    aneale2310 aneale2310 Aug 6, 2015 11:07 AM in response to aneale2310
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    Aug 6, 2015 11:07 AM in response to aneale2310

    Also, I noticed that this post had some views, I discovered a more bigger problem. I can't get my iBook G4 to boot to the leopard usb! I lost my disk but I had a copy of the disk in my cloud. I used apple partition map and got the usb on and formatted as mac os x extended journaled and with the apple partition map.

     

    Please Help!

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    Drew Reece Drew Reece Aug 6, 2015 11:19 AM in response to aneale2310
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    Aug 6, 2015 11:19 AM in response to aneale2310

    You can't upgrade video RAM on iBooks.

     

    iBooks may also not boot from USB, I think G4 models don't support USB for booting. You could try a Firewire hard disk, burn the disk image to a CD/DVD or find another copy of the OS disks. Contact Apple if you want to try to order replacement disks.

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    aneale2310 aneale2310 Aug 6, 2015 4:23 PM in response to Drew Reece
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    Aug 6, 2015 4:23 PM in response to Drew Reece

    Thanks Drew Reece, thats all I needed to know

  • by aneale2310,

    aneale2310 aneale2310 Aug 7, 2015 7:29 AM in response to aneale2310
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    Aug 7, 2015 7:29 AM in response to aneale2310

    Wait, I was looking on apple's tech page and selected the ibook g4, late 2004 which is what mine is, and I fount this.

     

    Graphics support

    • ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 graphics processor with 32MB of dedicated video memory and AGP 4X support

     

    When it says dedicated, wouldn't that mean there is a chip mounted on the motherboard somewhere? Or does it mean that it takes from the 256 mb ram that I have installed beneath the keyboard. (I have 256 built in and the 256mb under the keyboard which is where it is located on my model.)

  • by Drew Reece,

    Drew Reece Drew Reece Aug 7, 2015 7:44 AM in response to aneale2310
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    Aug 7, 2015 7:44 AM in response to aneale2310

    aneale2310 wrote:

     

    Wait, I was looking on apple's tech page and selected the ibook g4, late 2004 which is what mine is, and I fount this.

     

    Graphics support

    • ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 graphics processor with 32MB of dedicated video memoryand AGP 4X support

     

    When it says dedicated, wouldn't that mean there is a chip mounted on the motherboard somewhere? Or does it mean that it takes from the 256 mb ram that I have installed beneath the keyboard. (I have 256 built in and the 256mb under the keyboard which is where it is located on my model.)

    The video system uses RAM. On your model the dedicated video memory is soldered onto the video system on the logic board. The CPU has it's own RAM that isn't shared with the graphics system.

     

    I believe the term for graphics cards that share RAM with the CPU's RAM is 'integrated' graphics, like on older Mac Mini's…

    http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_mini/faq_core/mac-mini-intel-integrate d-graphics-inferior.html

     

    To be honest it doesn't really matter either way, both types of video chip are soldered on and not replaceable.