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[bobesch]

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Latest acquisition 1.5GHz PBG4 12". Everything stock so far. Came without a hard drive (and a few screws) but now up and running.

Congrats, very nice machine and tough work to access the drive!
Take care if you ever consider repasting the cpu - you'll have to press the heatsink firmly against the board until you've managed to remove both of the screws, that press the heatsink against the cpu, since those screws like to break off the board if the heatsink gets jammed.
Did you use an SSD/mSATA&IDE-Converter as a replacement? Then, what about temperature and fans?
The fans on mine got berserk after swapping the spinning drive with the mSATA-converter-combo, because threshold for the drive seems to have a preset at about 45°C and the mSATA runs at about 60°.
"G4FanControl" had been the only solution for that problem, after repasting of cpu/gpu didn't have any effect on fan activity. With G4FanControl I've set threshold for cpu/gpu/drive to about 65°C to get a steady-state without any fan running. A cool surface or an iLap-stand is very helpful, if the Book is under heavy load (TFF, VPC7+WinXPFundamentals). Those 12" iLap-stands are really cute and I was happy to get hands on one after a long search...

 

[1042686]

I was the only bidder on that item. The lack of a HDD scared everyone else off. It went for £ rather than ££ or even £££ and I am OK with that.

Hey, If it was only $ and not $$ or $$$, I’d most likely have bought it too on principle alone. Definitely not for $$ or $$$ tho.

 

[bobesch]

Hey, If it was only $ and not $$ or $$$, I’d most likely have bought it too on principle alone. Definitely not for $$ or $$$ tho.

Even at €€ no regret ...

 

[weckart]

Hey, If it was only $ and not $$ or $$$, I’d most likely have bought it too on principle alone. Definitely not for $$ or $$$ tho.

Not even $10?

 

[1042686]

Not even $10?

Oh jeez that certainly falls in the “buy because it’s too cheap not to” camp.

 

[weckart]

Congrats, very nice machine and tough work to access the drive!
Take care if you ever consider repasting the cpu - you'll have to press the heatsink firmly against the board until you've managed to remove both of the screws, that press the heatsink against the cpu, since those screws like to break off the board if the heatsink gets jammed.
Did you use an SSD/mSATA&IDE-Converter as a replacement? Then, what about temperature and fans?

This is my second 1.5GHz 12" PB. I replaced the whole logic board on the first one so nothing scares me now. This one has a 100GB spinner in it now, which is fine for a spare machine. I have a few IDE drives spare. I actually was pleasantly surprised by the temps on my first PB as they remained quite moderate, even while browsing. I haven't tested this one in anger as the optical drive seems jammed at the moment. I am going to have to open the PB up again and check that nothing is pressing against the top of the drive inside preventing my inserting any disk. It did work before, so I know the drive itself is fine.

 

[galgot]

A bit of vintage experiment. This is a PowerBook 1400cs/133 running MkLinux DR3 .
Done the install long time ago, but was happy to finally manage to connect it to the internet today via pppd.

 

[LightBulbFun]

very cool!

does cat /proc/cpuinfo and/or lscpu work? would be cool to see what those 2 commands say

 

[galgot]

very cool!

does cat /proc/cpuinfo and/or lscpu work? would be cool to see what those 2 commands say

cat /proc/cpuinfo works :


Note MkLinux have problem with IDE drives on lo ram machines (think this one have only 16Mb, Edit : it has 32Mb) so it make some "IDE TIMEOUT" errors if swap is used to much apparently. can see some here down the screen :

 

[pochopsp]

@galgot This is not cool , this is awesome! What's the fun in using modern computers which are all already prepared and set to do all things we need? The fun of using a computer is configuring it for our needs! What you did with that ancient computer is just awesome.

 

[LightBulbFun]

so how many Points is this worth? running with an X850 XT Mac Edition for maximum speed too (the machine its running on is my PowerMac G5, 2004 Dual 2Ghz PPC970 PM7,3) I hope to test it on my 2.7Ghz 970FX PM G5 soon

 

[nglevin]

That's one way of getting around the RRoD.

 

[RogerWilco6502]

Here's my main PPC Macintosh. Its a Power Mac G4 Digital Audio running both OS 9 and OS X (separate partitions with the OS 9 partition not being visible to the OS X partition to avoid btree errors). I have maxed the RAM at 1.5 GB and am running it with a Crucial SSD through an IDE to SATA adapter.

 

[AphoticD]

so how many Points is this worth? running with an X850 XT Mac Edition for maximum speed too (the machine its running on is my PowerMac G5, 2004 Dual 2Ghz PPC970 PM7,3) I hope to test it on my 2.7Ghz 970FX PM G5 soon

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Well done @LightBulbFun !!

Can we hope to see a video showing it in action? Are any retail Xbox 360 games playable?

 

[weckart]

so how many Points is this worth? running with an X850 XT Mac Edition for maximum speed too (the machine its running on is my PowerMac G5, 2004 Dual 2Ghz PPC970 PM7,3) I hope to test it on my 2.7Ghz 970FX PM G5 soon

A point deducted for the non-PPC LG monitor, mind you.

 

[Traace]

so how many Points is this worth? running with an X850 XT Mac Edition for maximum speed too (the machine its running on is my PowerMac G5, 2004 Dual 2Ghz PPC970 PM7,3) I hope to test it on my 2.7Ghz 970FX PM G5 soon

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2,7 Ghz will not work currently, it needs to be 2,0. Maybe you have a plan to workaround?

Well done @LightBulbFun !!

Can we hope to see a video showing it in action? Are any retail Xbox 360 games playable?

Non retail 360 game run on a alpha. They have different kernel calls. However some retail Original Xbox games do.



Btw, Some of my ppcs:

 

[LightBulbFun]

A point deducted for the non-PPC LG monitor, mind you.

sadly i still dont have a VGA adapter for my Multiple-scan 14 (or any other VGA Apple CRT)

the XenonOS only seems to work over VGA

Well done @LightBulbFun !!

Can we hope to see a video showing it in action? Are any retail Xbox 360 games playable?

I dont have a video myself but someone else has done a video you can watch here (I would of posted more pictures but I accidentally set the wrong display mode which did not play with my monitor so I had to re-image the 160GB HDD .img file I have of the OS again)

its said a wireless Xbox 360 controller wont work however mine works just fine via its USB to Wireless dongle/puck thingy

sadly this build of the Xenon OS cant play any Xbox 360 retail games but it does have a somewhat working Xbox original emulator in it...

 

[LightBulbFun]

Just tested my FireGL X3 that I flashed to X850 XT in this post https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...nd-flashing-x850-xt-rom-on-firegl-x3.2016538/

and can confirm it works nicely

also gives me a better picture, since my X850 XT Mac edition is a bit sad and only the ADC Port works properly, but the XenonOS only works via VGA

 

[pochopsp]

@LightBulbFun now try some original Xbox games!

 

[nglevin]

I'm very curious to see how it handles notoriously hard to emulate titles like Panzer Dragoon Orta.

I am expecting, not well.

 

[LightBulbFun]

I still need to get an intel 10/100 network card so I can network the system, but when I do I will throw a few xbox games at it

(the G5 Dev kits dont use the onboard Broadcom GigE NIC on G5s, they where fitted with a 10/100 intel PCI Card to simulate what was going to ship in the Xbox 360)
[doublepost=1547411588][/doublepost]Woo! the Xenon OS boots on my 2.7Ghz PowerMac G5! combined with my "X850 XT" I guess I have the worlds fastest Xbox 360 Dev kit? LOL

(I was told that it wouldn't work, that it only works on 2Ghz G5s )

then again i was also told that my Wireless controller would not work, and that evidently does work...

 

[Traace]

I still need to get an intel 10/100 network card so I can network the system, but when I do I will throw a few xbox games at it

(the G5 Dev kits dont use the onboard Broadcom GigE NIC on G5s, they where fitted with a 10/100 intel PCI Card to simulate what was going to ship in the Xbox 360)
[doublepost=1547411588][/doublepost]Woo! the Xenon OS boots on my 2.7Ghz PowerMac G5! combined with my "X850 XT" I guess I have the worlds fastest Xbox 360 Dev kit? LOL

(I was told that it wouldn't work, that it only works on 2Ghz G5s )

then again i was also told that my Wireless controller would not work, and that evidently does work...

Nice, well done! Yes, sir, yours is the fastest now ^^

Its very interesting because people who released this xenon build and wrote the wiki claim it just works on 2,0Ghz PCI-X 8DIMM slot (not even on the 4DIMM Slot early 2005)


pictures and infos please What did you change to make it boot?

 

[LightBulbFun]

I put up a video of it booting here

in communication with one of the guys who runs the wiki and he is slowly updating with my findings (they know their xbox stuff quite well but i help out when it comes to the mac stuff)

(for example they amended the wiki when I discovered wireless controllers work )

I did not have to do any mods to the image for it to boot, it just booted right up with no issues

it would be interesting to test it on other G5s like slower then 2Ghz G5s and single CPU G5s...

I have also ordered an ethernet card that @SuperKerem very kindly helped me get, so I should be able to throw xbox OG titles at it soon

(It will be interesting to see if they perform diffrently on the 2Ghz system vs the 2.7Ghz system)

 

[Traace]

I put up a video of it booting here
in communication with one of the guys who runs the wiki and he is slowly updating with my findings (they know their xbox stuff quite well but i help out when it comes to the mac stuff)

(for example they amended the wiki when I discovered wireless controllers work )

I did not have to do any mods to the image for it to boot, it just booted right up with no issues

it would be interesting to test it on other G5s like slower then 2Ghz G5s and single CPU G5s...

I have also ordered an ethernet card that @SuperKerem very kindly helped me get, so I should be able to throw xbox OG titles at it soon

(It will be interesting to see if they perform diffrently on the 2Ghz system vs the 2.7Ghz system)

This is amazing. It just works kinda OOTB.
Thanks.

Okay I can test a lower one. Just need to get a wireless receiver and then fire up that DP 1,8Ghz with Fire GL X3 & xenon.

 

[LightBulbFun]

Woo got DVI output working in Xenon OS

what was happening previously if you tried to boot up over DVI, is it would boot to a white screen then reboot the system, and get stuck in a boot loop

now while poking around in OS X etc over VGA I set OpenFirmware set to the native resolution of my monitor (1920x1080), before OpenFirmware was just defaulting a VGA failsafe of 640x480.

then I rebooted into XenonOS and I noticed it was boot looping the same as if it was booting over DVI, so I wondered if it simply did not like it when the OpenFirmware resolution was set too high

so I plugged in DVI booted OS X Up set the resolution to 1024x768 rebooted to make sure OpenFirmware was also set, and then booted into XenonOS where it worked! Kinda, all the coloured where skewed and messed up, so I switched to the DVI port on the right of the FireGL X3 repeated the same

where low and behold it booted up perfectly fine!