Q: Solid foundation
I bought a Power Mac G4 800MHz in 2002. At that time there were no music software available for OSX .
Therefore I bought one that required OS9. Apple at the time allowed the G4 to work with both OS9 and OSX.
My Mac has started to give me greif. So I got a PowerMac Silver Bullet single processor and tried to load on OS9
onto the hard drive. But it displays the OS9 logo with the two faces and a question sign beside it.
HELP . What should I do
Posted on Apr 4, 2016 9:57 AM
What is a "Silver Bullet" Mac? I've been around here a long time and have not heard that term before. Do you mean a PowerMac G5?
We need to pin down your model exactly because some late G4 and all G5s cannot natively boot into OS9 or, like the 2003 Mirrored Drive Door G4 1.25Ghz Single processor, require a special version of OS9 that was only on the gray install disks that shipped with the computer. No other version will work.
Plug your serial number into this web page:
http://www.everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/
to get its model and sub-model, then tell us what you found. However, for security reasons do not post your serial number in your response.
Posted on Apr 12, 2016 8:51 AM