How'd I do?

[trewyn15]

Maybe the person just got it from someone else and did not look into it and thought he can give it a try.
Since the item is not, what he described, doesn't the law say he has to take it back? I would insist on him also covering your shipping costs, because it was not your fault. He could have packed it better (styrofoam under the middle of the bottom, so that the feet have room to not make contact to the paper box already). The HDD is a no go anyway.

If you will loose any money in refunding it, I would talk him into giving you refund for the HDD (like the price of a working used one) plus a small bit of money more for the defective case and the trouble you now have.

You then can sell the Mac without hard drive (just be patient, if you do it via Craigslist) for a price at least equal to the rest of your costs.

Then reinvest into a DC G5 (or maybe quad), though a DP G5 gives you a wider graphics card choise.

Bend legs are seen quite often after shipping. I also think that most of the water pump problems in used G5s (Dual 2,5 DP and 2,7GHz DP and Quad DC) come from bad shipping.

He said he posted the 'about this mac' to prove that the hard drive was working, which seems kind of fishy to me to be honest. He is looking into possibly refunding me the price of the hard drive as it is on Newegg ($55), which would be more than enough for me.

If that's the case I will just grab a 500GB HDD from it, load Leopard on it and live with the minimal case damage.

I agree, I would have wrapped it in bubblewrap and then styrofoam then boxed it up. But that's what happens I guess. It looks like he may have even had FedEx box it for him, which would make even more sense since FedEx has failed at just about every other thing for me.

 

[jbarley]

I've purchased 2 G5's at different times and had them shipped to me from the same re-seller. I've included some photos as to how they pack them, it would take more then what most shipping companies could do to damage these puppies.
Poured in place expanding foam in plastic bags…

 

[trewyn15]

I've purchased 2 G5's at different times and had them shipped to me from the same re-seller. I've included some photos as to how they pack them, it would take more then what most shipping companies could do to damage these puppies.
Poured in place expanding foam in plastic bags…

That's exactly how we ship at work. It's almost failproof.

 

[Altemose]

Sadly both FedEx and UPS seem to believe that they can throw boxes off the back of a truck, put them through a nuclear war zone, then back over them a couple of times with a van. Personally you can deal with this two ways and both are behind mentalities that are 100% correct.

Option 1: You paid for a working G5 with no case damage and a working hard drive. The seller contracted with FedEx to get you the G5 safely. They failed the seller, and for that reason the seller did not live up to his end, providing the G5 in the condition as stated. That would mean have the seller assume all costs and go after FedEx for his losses.

Option 2: Let the seller remedy the situation by replacing the hard drive as it was not caused by shipping damage. Since it was not his fault with the shipping damage, have him file agains FedEx in a damage claim. Since the value is under $100 they will probably pay it because they know they have some insanely inconsiderate workers.

Either way you go you would still be within a fair and just mindset. Hope you get it resolved!

 

[trewyn15]

Sadly both FedEx and UPS seem to believe that they can throw boxes off the back of a truck, put them through a nuclear war zone, then back over them a couple of times with a van. Personally you can deal with this two ways and both are behind mentalities that are 100% correct.

Option 1: You paid for a working G5 with no case damage and a working hard drive. The seller contracted with FedEx to get you the G5 safely. They failed the seller, and for that reason the seller did not live up to his end, providing the G5 in the condition as stated. That would mean have the seller assume all costs and go after FedEx for his losses.

Option 2: Let the seller remedy the situation by replacing the hard drive as it was not caused by shipping damage. Since it was not his fault with the shipping damage, have him file agains FedEx in a damage claim. Since the value is under $100 they will probably pay it because they know they have some insanely inconsiderate workers.

Either way you go you would still be within a fair and just mindset. Hope you get it resolved!

I personally love UPS, never an issue. FedEx and USPS always give me issues unfortunately.

The seller said he would just prefer me return the item than him putting any real work into it, so for that I told him to just replace the hard drive and everything will be good.

He said he was thinking about paying me the price of the hard drive new on Newegg which is $55, but he has yet to respond to the last photos I sent.

I would honestly prefer to keep the machine as finding one even this clean I think will prove difficult for $60 total in the end.

 

[Altemose]

I think it depends regionally on what type of service you get. Ask the seller to do the hard drive replacement and to file a claim against FedEx for being embisils. Say you will keep the G5 and that will cover the cost of the hard drive, and leave a little profit.

 

[trewyn15]

I think it depends regionally on what type of service you get. Ask the seller to do the hard drive replacement and to file a claim against FedEx for being embisils. Say you will keep the G5 and that will cover the cost of the hard drive, and leave a little profit.

Ill definitely tell him to go after FedEx, in the end it kind of screwed us both, but mainly him with the price of shipping.

Ill update you all with what happens for sure!

 

[trewyn15]

Chrome's Javascript engine is intel only, Google never released Chrome for PPC.
TenFourFox is a backport of more modern versions of FireFox to PPC since the official releases dropped support for the architecture.
They have 1 build for G3, 2 different G4 optimized builds and a G5 optimized build.
For YouTube I would suggest MacTubes, you can even play HD YouTube videos with it.

PowerMac G5's support 2 SATA I drives (1.5 Gb/s) and are capable of booting from USB.

Hey, do you know if I can only use only SATA I drives? Or will newer SATA drives work, they just will only work at SATA I levels?

 

[macnerd93]

I'd say my two greatest Mac finds were...

my 1.8Ghz Power Mac G5 Dual Paid £49.99 for it with free postage

my 17'' iMac G4 800Mhz paid £29.99 for it an epic machine.

Also just bought a slightly dodgy PowerBook G4 15'' for £25 just needs a new screen or LCD Data cable have to see when it arrives.

 

[Intell]

Hey, do you know if I can only use only SATA I drives? Or will newer SATA drives work, they just will only work at SATA I levels?

They can use most SATA II drives without a problem. SATA III drives tend to cause problems are not recommended.

 

[trewyn15]

They can use most SATA II drives without a problem. SATA III drives tend to cause problems are not recommended.

Gotcha, I have a 500GB lined up, SATA II. The other ones I had were SATA III so I should be good now.

 

[trewyn15]

So I got my DVI to VGA converter in and got to make sure the machine is at least displaying correctly:


Untitled by trewyn15, on Flickr

I also told the seller that I've been in his position before, it's tough so $40 refund would suffice. I was able to pick up a Seagate 500GB SATA II drive for $28 and then $12 in damage or so? I'm basically in this thing for $80 overall, just got 2x the space I originally purchased as well.

 

[noodle654]

They can use most SATA II drives without a problem. SATA III drives tend to cause problems are not recommended.

I run SATA III drives in my G5, it works fine, you just need to use a jumper so it runs at SATA I.

 

[Intell]

I run SATA III drives in my G5, it works fine, you just need to use a jumper so it runs at SATA I.

Not all SATA III drives work well or at all in G5. Most have problems and most of them don't have any ability to change the SATA bus speed via firmware or jumpers.

 

[trewyn15]

I run SATA III drives in my G5, it works fine, you just need to use a jumper so it runs at SATA I.

Not all SATA III drives work well or at all in G5. Most have problems and most of them don't have any ability to change the SATA bus speed via firmware or jumpers.

I had read that there were sometimes boot issues with SATA III and a jumper so I just tried to avoid it all together.

Some kind of good news though. My computer is recognizing the original 250GB drive, but it's not letting me format or anything. The drive spins up without issue and isn't making any noise. I wouldn't mind using it for a storage drive if I can format it to NTFS and just have another no so portable hard drive.

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Nevermind, got her to work. There's another 232GB.

Anyone know if there's a wireless storage unit that will power with PATA and get data with SATA?

 

[trewyn15]

I was able to get the .dmg for Leopard from a friend, but I am wondering how I will be able to burn it to a dual layer disc. Or is this G5 able to boot from a drive? I've read issues regarding both.

I have Dual Layer discs that are DVD+Rdl, i've heard DVD-R are the only ones that really work with Apple for some reason?

Anyone have any input on this? I would prefer to just have it on a disc, but if I have to use a USB then that will suffice for the time being.

 

[jrsx]

I was able to get the .dmg for Leopard from a friend, but I am wondering how I will be able to burn it to a dual layer disc. Or is this G5 able to boot from a drive? I've read issues regarding both.

I have Dual Layer discs that are DVD+Rdl, i've heard DVD-R are the only ones that really work with Apple for some reason?

Anyone have any input on this? I would prefer to just have it on a disc, but if I have to use a USB then that will suffice for the time being.

I don't know about the DVD-DL, depends on your model, but USB booting is pretty hit-and-miss on PowerPC. You can do it on some PowerPC Macs with a command from OpenFirmware, but I have never been able to do it. Users Intell and Tom Vilsack have been able to do it several times, though.

 

[trewyn15]

I don't know about the DVD-DL, depends on your model, but USB booting is pretty hit-and-miss on PowerPC. You can do it on some PowerPC Macs with a command from OpenFirmware, but I have never been able to do it. Users Intell and Tom Vilsack have been able to do it several times, though.

I'm going to have a blank hard drive in there though. Should I format it in any with my my PC before inserting it or should I be good to go?

I have two laptops to try it on, I thought last time I tried it said the 8.33GB .dmg was too big for the 8.5GB DL disc.

 

[jrsx]

I'm going to have a blank hard drive in there though. Should I format it in any with my my PC before inserting it or should I be good to go?

I have two laptops to try it on, I thought last time I tried it said the 8.33GB .dmg was too big for the 8.5GB DL disc.

I think you should format it first. Also, you could alternately 'burn' the Leopard installer on a separate partition of the drive, so when you boot into the partition, it installs from it. Just an idea.

 

[trewyn15]

I think you should format it first. Also, you could alternately 'burn' the Leopard installer on a separate partition of the drive, so when you boot into the partition, it installs from it. Just an idea.

Should it be formatted into FAT32?

Could I then go back and delete said partition when I'm done installing?

Any idea how I would go about doing this?

 

[trewyn15]

One other thing, will burning with Disk Utility allow me to boot from the disc or do I have to use 'Toast'?

I've read that it only puts the file on the disc, not uses it so it can be bootable.

 

[jrsx]

It shouldn't be formatted with FAT32. I think NTFS works. You can burn a disk with disk utility. Just select the disk from the left side bar, and hit 'burn'. If you are going to install from a CD, don't worry about formatting. It takes care of that for you.

 

[trewyn15]

It shouldn't be formatted with FAT32. I think NTFS works. You can burn a disk with disk utility. Just select the disk from the left side bar, and hit 'burn'. If you are going to install from a CD, don't worry about formatting. It takes care of that for you.

So just burning the .dmg to the disc, inserting it in the powermac should do the job?

I read that burning like that just puts the .dmg on the disc but it won't boot properly, or something like that lol

 

[jrsx]

So just burning the .dmg to the disc, inserting it in the powermac should do the job?

I read that burning like that just puts the .dmg on the disc but it won't boot properly, or something like that lol

No, burning it to a DVD-DL with disk utility or toast will make it bootable. However, before you burn, confirm that your Mac can read dual-layer DVDs.

 

[trewyn15]

No, burning it to a DVD-DL with disk utility or toast will make it bootable. However, before you burn, confirm that your Mac can read dual-layer DVDs.

I just put a newer superdrive in her computer, it's a UJ8A8 superdrive.

Looks like it does:

Write Speed:
CD-R :24X
CD-RW :16X
DVD-R :8X
DVD+R :8X
DVD-RW :6X
DVD+RW :6X
DVD-R DL :6X
DVD+R DL :6X
DVD-RAM :5X

Read Speed:
DVD-ROM/D9: 8X
DVD-RAM:5X
CD-R:24X
CD-RW: 24X
CD-ROM: 24X

So I should be okay. I'm just hoping the 8.33GB file will fit on the 8.5GB disc, not sure if it expands while burning or something. We'll see in the morning

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Nevermind, it's a 6.33GB file, all should be good!