Excuse me if you've already answered this, but are you sure your USB drive was partitioned using the "Guid" partition map, which it needs in order to be bootable.
It has to be Apple Partition Map. I just made a bootable Leopard USB last night.
Excuse me if you've already answered this, but are you sure your USB drive was partitioned using the "Guid" partition map, which it needs in order to be bootable.
Of course, sorry for the misleading post, do not know what I was thinking...It has to be Apple Partition Map. I just made a bootable Leopard USB last night.
Of course, sorry for the misleading post, do not know what I was thinking...
Probably the hang-over effect of just spending 3 days trying to get Mountain-Lion installed and working on my Laptop.
Look, your G5 is a geriatric and you will lose money if you try to upgrade it with fancy new stuff like GPUs or an SSD, they hit a point where their value will never increase until they become antiques.
Not sure, but all my attempts to install Leo from an USB drive have ended up unsuccessfully, no matter what I've tried. Perhaps I did something wrong, but in the end I had to burn a Leopard installation DVD anyway...
I currently have a flashed X1900XT 512M running in my G5 without problems. I can't think of a way to prove it, so just take my word. If you give me your email I will give you the X1900GT G5 ROM. Are you going to use Zeus to flash the X1900? I am not sure if this tool supports PPC ROMs.. Remember that you will need to get the extra power cable for the X1900 (It's actually the same as in the Mac Pro).
If I burn on a Mac in the office, will it still be able to read the disc?
I'm sorry to bother you, but could you provide me a ROM to X1900 G5 as well? I found this listing on eBay and would like to buy and flash that card for my dear G5 box. I assume it should work, as the only HW difference between this card and your X1900XT 512M seems to be the size of GDDR3 memory, correct?
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperDrive :
SuperDrives are combination DVD±RW and CD-RW writer drives offering speeds of 8–24x and supporting the DVD±R, DVD+R DL, DVD-R DL, DVD±RW, DVD-9, CD-R, and CD-RW formats along with all normal read-only media.
According to wikipedia, it should work - as long as you burn the Leo disc using APM scheme, obviously.
Here is a x1900gt for $20 shipped!!! And you don't need to flash it! He has 6 available.
https://touch.ebay.com/tablet/vi?itemId=251183887141
I looked up in system profile and only DVD DL +R was listed. Not -R.
This is from Wikipedia; "16x SuperDrive (DVD+R DL/DV±RW/CDRW)"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G5
Sorry, I missed "as of December 2006" part in the article I posted. Since your G5 is 2005 that should be the reason. My bad.
And about the video card: Thank you, that's a deal indeed. But they don't say anything about international shipping and ebay wouldn't allow me to ask the seller a question: "Unfortunately, this seller is not able to respond to your question" they say... And as I don't have anyone living in the US who could forward the shipment to my country, I'll probably have to pass on this deal. What a pity.
EDIT: Now I see, there's nothing about it being a Mac version, so it could easily be a standard X1900GT Low-profile version, which was also made for regular PCs and looked the same as the G5 version. But, it's still quite a deal!
I am really curious if x1900XT flashed with x1900GT ROM can still use its 12 extra pixel shaders... Perhaps thorns would know the answer...
Well that weird for sure. Every time I click "ask seller a question" it lets me choose a subject of my question, but when I try to proceed to the next step - write the actual message, for some reason it gives me this message saying that the seller is not able to reply to my question.
I'm well aware of it, as I did it numerous times, and usually the seller was willing to send the goods overseas, but I've also encountered several cases when the seller refused to do so.
I'm not exactly sure what have you meant by eBay's/PayPals bias towards buyers, or precisely - why should be sellers anxious about it.
I'm not exactly a wiz when it comes to hex editing, so if there's not an easy way to get those shaders working, I'll keep 'em disabled. (in case I'd get the XT version, of course. So far I'm biased more towards the XT because of its dual-slot cooling, which can be nothing but beneficial for the card in terms of its lifespan, but if there was a change of getting a GT for a good buck, I'd go for it)
Well that weird for sure. Every time I click "ask seller a question" it lets me choose a subject of my question, but when I try to proceed to the next step - write the actual message, for some reason it gives me this message saying that the seller is not able to reply to my question
Hi PPC aficionados,
I always wanted a G5 PowerMac, neigh coveted the G5 PowerMacs.
So, now I have one (the office threw it out), and I'm not sure if I should keep it!
Specs wise:
Machine Nameower Mac G5
Machine ModelowerMac11,2
CPU TypeowerPC G5 (1.1)
Number Of CPUs:2
CPU Speed:2 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU):1 MB
Memory:1.5 GB
GPU Model:GeForce 6600LE
VRAM (Total):128 MB
Monitor: Apple Cinema Display 23-Inch
I know 1.5GB ram is not much nowadays, but it has a clean install of Tiger and the OS feels nice and snappy (although web-pages seem to load pretty slowly).
Can it be of any use in this x64 chipset world we live in?
I was thinking I could drop a few HDD's in it and using it as a media Library. Although if I sell it I could get a Time Capsule with the money and server the same purpose.
Keep the little friend, but get a new video card, maybe a quadro fx 4500.
I have 9.5GB of Ram in it now and a 240GB SATAII drive for the OS and it is running very fast now.
I want to video edit and photo shop on it, and so far the 6600 feels fine. Will I benefit from a new GPU? I haven't gotten around to flashing the x1900 I have yet either.
Can anyone report on if that card can handle 1080p?
Would be cool to hook up to my TV and use it as the media centre/desktop workstation.
Living in Tokyo though, no space for a desk to put it on! Sure I can work something out.