Wallpaper ONLY when G5 booted?

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Wallpaper ONLY when G5 booted?

I spent the last 2 hours trying to boot from a CD and numerous other suggestions after having updated 10.6 on my desktop G5 Quad and only seeing wallpaper and the mouse cursor. It never occured to me that with a DVI cord to HDMI to my big Sony TV which was NOT ON was the problem.

When I finially got a glimmer of the possible cause on Mac Rumors, it was simple. My monitor attached to the G5 was showing only 2nd monitor wallpaper so when I finally turned on the Sony LCD TV, there was my finder and hard drives. Disconnect the DVI to HDMI on the Sony, reboot and there was everything on the desktop monititor just fine. Whew... So annoying...

PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.6.5), Quad-Core with Asus LED desktop mon

Posted on Nov 16, 2013 11:47 AM

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Kurt Lang

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Nov 16, 2013 12:54 PM in response to Libralove

If you are actually running Snow Leopard, 10.6.x, then you can't have a G5. That refers to the "5th Generation" PowerPC CPUs Apple used before the switch to Intel CPUs. Snow Leopard requires an Intel based Mac.

Click on the Apple at the upper left and choose About This Mac. What does it say for Processor? I'm assuming you'll shown a quad core Intel chip of some sort.

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Nov 16, 2013 1:11 PM in response to Kurt Lang

It's a the first Quad-Core Intel PowerMac. Sorry! Thought it was still called a G5. I have 2 G5's and they look just like this one, but it is an Intel Quad Core...

Can somone change the title for me and delete G5?

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Kurt Lang

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Nov 16, 2013 1:12 PM in response to Libralove

That's what I thought, but was just curious.

The towers do look nearly identical. The very easy way to tell them apart without even turning one on is the G5 PowerMac has only one optical drive slot. All Intel based Mac Pro models have two (whether there's two drives installed or not).

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