Recent content by phunguss

I stopped by Free Geek yesterday and found another G5 project. $5, no graphics card, missing the acrylic air deflector, no hdd, no ram. Single processor, dual core, 2.0GHz. I added all the spare parts needed, and it fired right up. And then I remembered I had a spare dual core processor that...

How long is it? Maybe these on eBay?

Here is some more reading for you, maybe it will help.

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https://www.ebay.com/itm/156173436028

You may want to do some reading on this awesome thread. https://tinkerdifferent.com/threads/megathread-ssds-for-powerpc-g3-g5-macs.4417/

I would wait at least an hour. Front or back USB should not make a difference. A lot of times with the USB2.0, it seems the machine has frozen. Sometimes I put a piece of blue tape on my monitor just to see if the progress bar is moving. It should take a minimum of 30-45 minutes to do an...

How long did you wait for it to complete?

Please clarify if you are using OpenCore (Dortania mostly for hackintosh) or OCLP (OpenCore Legacy Patcher). If you built an installer USB stick for Sequoia with OCLP, it should install fine on a Macpro5,1 even without a metal card (A metal card should be used for Sequoia or it will be terribly...

How did you determine it was bad (swapped sodimms to opposite sides)? Are both sodimms identical (speed, size, etc)? Did you check for damage or bent pins in the socket? Dust in the socket? Your heat gun will likely not get hot enough to reflow the socket.

When was your green tube transplant? Do you have pics?

That should work. If there is no Master/Slave jumper, you may have to play around with the assumption that it could be default master, or possibly Cable Select. You may have to change your optical drive jumpters (assuming you have one) to get this to work on the same chain. Here is a review...

Edutainment is a pretty broad field. Have you looked at ScummVM.org ? It allows you to play some really good games from earlier PPC days on modern machines. My kids loved all the Humongous Entertainment titles.

Isn't your tagline "put a heatsink on it"?

Every Mac I own, I am not the original owner. I assume every single one has had a terrible digital life of abuse. Some take more tinkering than others to get into a reliable state, and some are just not recoverable with my skill set. I do the best I can, FrankenMod what I can, and set the...