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Q: PowerMac G5 Not Seeing OS X DVD

Hi,

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 video card, and problem #1 was solved. But then I ran into another problem. It had an empty hard drive with no OS, no nothing. I made a OS X Tiger disk off of the Original OEM .dmg from an official disk, and made a boot USB. The "option key" menu did not show the usb. So, I tried OS X Leopard (I said Leopard 10.5, not "Snow" Leopard 10.6 witch is incompatible with PowerPC Macs") and still no luck. Next I tried both of the DVD's  I had. Still, nothing. I do not usually work on Pre-Intel machines. I only have one, which is a Powerbook G3 Wallstreet. Serial for the G5 will be included so you all can see what I am working with!

 

Please Help Me figure this one out

 

 

Thanks,

     Bradley Lokietek

 

 

PS: Serial is G8********RU4

 

 

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MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5), null

Posted on Aug 29, 2015 8:17 AM

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