theoretically you could put an 8800gt in a power mac g5 2.0 so since im guessing some one has tryed putting an 8800gt in one does it work at all (gray boot screen) ?if not the problem is probla bly the firmware or rom if it does get the boot screen and fails to start osx then its the kext (means that apple never made a n nvidia8000series kext for power pc in that case i will have to make one) so does any one want to try for the sake of my old g5 so it doesnt get tossed ?
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8800gt in a power mac g5
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Won't work. Only cards that support Open Firmware will work in the PCIe G5s.
If you're gonna just toss out that old crappy G5, I'll take it
If you're gonna just toss out that old crappy G5, I'll take it
in other words its a soft ware problem looks like my g5 will live on!
thanks for the info orangesvtguy!
thanks for the info orangesvtguy!
