Do i need antivirus on this power mac g4?

i have been reading some articles on antivirus!do i need it or not?

No, but read this:
User Tip on Viruses, Trojan Detection and Removal, as well as general Internet Security and Privacy, useful:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2435
The User Tip (which you are welcome to print out and retain for future reference) seeks to offer some guidance on the main security threats and how to avoid them.
Bear in mind that from April to December 2011 there were only 58 attempted security threats to the Mac - a mere fraction compared to Windows malware:
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002300.html
(I have ClamXav set to scan incoming emails, but nothing else.)

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PPC apps run transparently on Intel Macs, however, in your case it may be a matter of incompatibility. The software is simply not compatible with the current versions of OS X. This has nothing to do with Rosetta. You would have the same problem on your QuickSilver were you to upgrade to Tiger.
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Could it be a spinning gray radian?
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Best free antivirus online for Power Mac G5?

I was just notified that there is a virus on my flash drive (DLACTRLW.EXE virus) and I was told to download AVG from cnet.com for free. I don't think this works for macs, so I was hoping someone could tell me what might be the best for my Power Mac G5.
Thanks for your help!

my advice is simply be careful. Dont open suspicious emails, etc.
Also , learn how viruses work. For example, all files have a 3-letter extension. On windows machines, a program capable of running ( and thus of doing harm) has the extension ".exe" So you can spot a potential virus by its extension. note that some viruses some in with a different extension and then change their namesop they will run.
Unless you are running windows on your mac, a ".exe" program cannto run. It is a windows program. So you are safe.
I find most anti-virus programs to be nearly as bad as the virus themselves. I hoep 'clean living" can keep me virus free.
Grant

How do i fix this Power Mac G5?

I have a power mac g5, it can go to safe boot, but when i turn it on regularly it works fine with the sound until it the screen turns into the a blue blank screen or it turns into a grey screen with two black lines. What to do?

One way to test is to Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, Test for problem in Safe Mode...
PS. Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive
Reboot, test again.
If it only does it in Regular Boot, then it could be some hardware problem like Video card, (Quartz is turned off in Safe Mode), or Airport in 10.4 & below, or 3rd party add-on, Check System Preferences>Accounts>Login Items window to see if it or something relevant is listed.
Check the System Preferences>Other Row, for 3rd party Pref Panes.
Also look in these if they exist, some are invisible...
/private/var/run/StartupItems
/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/StartupItems
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons
/Library/LaunchDaemons

Do I need an antenna for Power Mac G5 Wifi?

From the last 30 minutes I've spent surfing the interent about this subject I have learned that I need an AirPort Extreme Card.
Do I need the wifi antenna also? I think I read that without it the wifi is pretty weak but my router is just across the hall.
Also, let me know if there ANY other options to get wifi please!

You need an antenna for all G5 towers from 2003 to early 2005 models.
The T shaped antenna is easily found on the web.
2 hacks are listed in my post here:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/18677374#18677374

Power Mac G4 (MDD) Won't Boot, Gives Error Screen "You need to restart..."

Hey guys, I got this Power Mac G4 (Dual 1.42GHz, 2GB Ram) from a neighbor about 3 weeks ago and it has been smooth sailing since I got it. However today my brother was using it, and got the rainbow loading mouse for a long time, nothing would open, I couldn't force quit any of the programs. So I just told him to hold the power button and restart. Well on reboot you hear the tone, then the Apple Logo appears then the screen shows up and says "You need to restart your computer..."
It happens no matter how many times I restart my computer. I've reset the RAM and the PRAM but it does the same thing. Any suggestions?

Oh man, I'm so confused now. I don't know what could have happened.
I put in my Leopard Disc (that I got with my MBP) and booted it from disc, and it said I couldn't install 10.5 because 10.4 or later couldn't be found. That *****, could it be because I was running 10.5.4 and maybe it doesn't recognize it because 10.5.4 came out after this disc was made?
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Once again, I appreciate the support, you guys really are helping me!
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Power Mac G4 keeps crashing. Start up after restarted

Hello. This Power Mac G4- AGP graphic - keeps crashing. However, after each crash it power up normally. The problem reoccurred several time over a week.
I am happy with this computer and i would like to keep it if possible.So here is the log file.
Unresolved kernel trap(cpu 0): 0x700 - Program DAR=0x00000000E7ADE000 PC=0x00000000002FE824
Latest crash info for cpu 0:
   Exception state (sv=0x22CD6280)
      PC=0x002FE824; MSR=0x00089030; DAR=0xE7ADE000; DSISR=0x42000000; LR=0x002D824C; R1=0x0F753A30; XCP=0x0000001C (0x700 - Program)
      Backtrace:
0x00000000 0x002D824C 0x002D6E78 0x0081DEC4 0x0081D96C 0x00474E90
         0x004E0634 0x004E0338 0x004E16E0 0x004E1A14 0x002D1B8C 0x002D0A54 0x000A9714
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         com.apple.iokit.IOUSBMassStorageClass(1.4.5)@0x81a000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(2.8.1)@0x472000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily(1.4.9)@0x5ca000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily(1.5)@0x43d000
         com.apple.driver.AppleUSBOHCI(2.5.5)@0x4dd000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(2.8.1)@0x472000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(1.7)@0x460000
         com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(2.8.1)@0x472000
Proceeding back via exception chain:
   Exception state (sv=0x22CD6280)
      previously dumped as "Latest" state. skipping...
   Exception state (sv=0x228D6780)
      PC=0x00000000; MSR=0x0000D030; DAR=0x00000000; DSISR=0x00000000; LR=0x00000000; R1=0x00000000; XCP=0x00000000 (Unknown)
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.11.0: Wed Oct 10 18:26:00 PDT 2007; root:xnu-792.24.17~1/RELEASE_PPC
panic(cpu 0 caller 0xFFFF0007): 0x700 - Program
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
      Backtrace:
         0x000954F8 0x00095A10 0x00026898 0x000A8204 0x000ABB80
Proceeding back via exception chain:
   Exception state (sv=0x22CD6280)
      PC=0x002FE824; MSR=0x00089030; DAR=0xE7ADE000; DSISR=0x42000000; LR=0x002D824C; R1=0x0F753A30; XCP=0x0000001C (0x700 - Program)
      Backtrace:
0x00000000 0x002D824C 0x002D6E78 0x0081DEC4 0x0081D96C 0x00474E90
         0x004E0634 0x004E0338 0x004E16E0 0x004E1A14 0x002D1B8C 0x002D0A54 0x000A9714
      Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
         com.apple.iokit.IOUSBMassStorageClass(1.4.5)@0x81a000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(2.8.1)@0x472000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily(1.4.9)@0x5ca000
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily Model: PowerMac3,1, BootROM 4.2.8f1, 1 processors, PowerPC G4 (3.3), 1.2 GHz, 640 MB
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Memory Module: DIMM0/J21, 512 MB, SDRAM, PC100-322S
Memory Module: DIMM1/J22, 128 MB, SDRAM, PC100-222S
Modem: Spring, UCJ, V.90, 3.0F, APPLE VERSION 0001, 4/7/1999
Network Service: Built-in Ethernet, Ethernet, en0
PCI Card: usb, usb, SLOT-C
PCI Card: usb, usb, SLOT-C
PCI Card: pci9005,201e, SLOT-C
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Thanks BDAqua, it does sound like a bad capacitor. The PSU is one that I put in a few years back when Apple was giving them out so as to reduce the fan noise. I kept the old one until last week when I sent it off to be recycled. I suppose it would be a tough job to find the bad capacitor and I doubt that I would have the skill to replace it even if I could find it. It's not like I really need this power mac since I have a Mac Pro 1,1 but I do occasionally want to run something in OS 9 and I do love this machine for what ever reason. There was remarkably little dust inside but I went over it with a can of dust remover.
Don

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I have a Power Mac G4 (dual 1 GHz with 2 GB of RAM) running OS X 10.4.11. It has the mirror drive doors and was once referred to as the “wind tunnel”.
The problem is that it will not start up after it has been shut down unless I first push the reset button. I have tried replacing the battery and resetting the p-ram. When I try to start it without first pushing the reset button nothing happens. The light for the start button doesn’t even come on. But if I disconnect the power, open it up and push the reset button it will start up and run perfectly.
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Don

Fan speed problem Power Mac G5 Dual 1.8 GHz PowerPC - please help

Please HELP, I have a fan speed problem with my Power Mac G5 Dual 1.8 GHz PowerPC
This is a NOT an Intel machine. I am running Mac OS X v10.5.8
Power Mac G5 - PowerMac 7,2 - Power PC 970 (2.2) - 1.8 GHz with 2 CPUs - L2 Cache (per CPU) 512 KB - Memory 8 GB - Bus Speed 900 MHz - Boot ROM version 5.1.5b1
I have included below Links to download a sound file (.m4a) that I recorded of the fan speed problem and both a .pdf and .spx files of my system profile.
download sound file
http://homepage.mac.com/rep3/filechute/myG5dualsFans.m4a
down load .spx file of my system preferences
http://homepage.mac.com/rep3/filechute/systemProfileREP3-G5dual.spx
down load .pdf file of my system preferences
http://homepage.mac.com/rep3/filechute/systemProfileREP3-G5dual.pdf
When did the fan problem start?
After I replaced the mother board on the computer.
Why did I replace the mother board?
Because the experts at apple agreed with my diagnosis that the major crash problems & kernel panics must have some thing to do with a logic board gone bad. They would not work on it, because this Power Mac G5 dual 1.8 GHz machine is now a legacy model.
What I have done to attempt to fix my fan speed problem? yes I checked the obvious things, here is a list:
1) yes I checked to be sure that the new mother board was the same part number as the original one, and that all things that were unplugged from the old mother board - were actually plugged into the new mother board.
2) all the fans work, I can see them spinning if I use a flashlight and look at them (cover on and off to get at some of them)
3) check all RAM to make sure: a) it was installed properly b) that the RAM worked using TechTool Pro c) even started the machine with only the original RAM that came with it.
4) I installed a Temperature monitor - to see if there was something reading as very hot inside that was causing the machine to continually run the fans at a high speed. No, no heat issues that I can see. Here are the reading from the sensors in degrees fahrenheit, 2009-10-11 16:11:01 -0500
CPU A Die Temperature: 75.7℉
CPU B Die Temperature: 81.5℉
Drive Bay: 68.9℉
Main Logic Board Air Inlet: 64.8℉
Main Logic Board Ambient: 73.6℉
Main Logic Board Backside: 76.3℉
Memory Controller Heatsink: 93.2℉
Processor Card A Ambient: 77.5℉
Processor Card B Ambient: 77.0℉
5) zapped the PRAM
6) followed the SMU reset instructions for
Power Mac G5 (Late 2004)
To reset the SMU on a Power Mac G5 (Late 2004) computer, simply do the following:
• Turn off the computer by selecting Shut Down from the Apple menu or by holding the power button until the computer turns off.
• Remove the power cord from the computer.
• Wait two minutes.
• Plug in the power cord.
• Turn on the computer.
7) followed the SMU reset instructions:
Resetting the Cuda/PMU
How to reset the PMU:
• If the computer is on, turn it off.
• Disconnect ALL cables from the computer, including peripherals and power.
• If possible, move the computer to a place where you are not standing on carpet.
• Open the case and ground yourself by touching part of the metal frame inside the computer.
• Find the Cuda or PMU button
• Press the Cuda or PMU button ONCE. Do not press the button more than once before starting the computer up again.
• Wait 10 seconds, then reconnect the cables you removed in step 2 and turn the computer on.
• If the computer still does not respond after resetting the PMU, the computer may require service from an Apple Authorized Service Provider.
8) ran disk utilities, repaired permissions
9) found a setting in the system preferences that a chat room person suggested had something to do with fan speed. In Energy Saver, under options, processor performance was set to highest, I set it to automatic - this did not change anything that I could tell - BTW I checked my other G5 (a single processor that works fine) that is the setting that that it is set to, and it is nice and quiet.
10) restarted the machine, ..
11) found a Fan Control System Update - but it did not install when I tryed to install it -
12) booted from OSX install disk and ran that disk utility
13) used OnyX to fix disk permissions, clear caches and temp items
Nope - still have the same high speed fan problem. ... PLEASE HELP!!
I have been reading in the MacInTouch reader reports - found this: some one said to use this - thermal re-calibration using the Apple Authorized Service Providers' disk - but that's not available, at least I can not find it - anyone? have an answer to finding this - or can do it for me? I am in Chicago.

The Genius at the downtown apple store said that because it's a "legacy machine" they would not work on it, .. so should I push them?
Well, I personally think that's ridiculous, I'd Push them, I'd call AppleCare & talk up the chain if need be... there the ones that have or should have that Disc... man o man... Personally I'll never visit an Apple Store again in my lifetime, maybe try an independent AASP if none of that helps!..
http://tinyurl.com/ykomqkn
Man-o-man, pop my cork before I explode on that one, if I had anything to do with it I'd close that store.

Power Mac Dual 1.8 Ghz: How do I connect to wireless network?

HELP!!!
I have this Power Mac Dual 1.8 Ghz with 10.4.11 OS. I used to use wire cable to connect the internet, but now the place I rent recently only provides wireless network. I was able to connect wireless network with my Windows Laptop.
Question: How do I connect my Dual 1.8 OS 10.4.11 with wireless network? I only see Internal Modern, Built-in Ethernet and Build-in FireWire options.

You can go the OWM route and get the airport extreme card and antenna
http://www.dvwarehouse.com/Apple-Airport-Extreme-Wireless-Card-802.11G-M8881-p-3 1367.html
http://www.dvwarehouse.com/Apple-Airport-External-Antenna-for-G5-2004-2005--MacP ro-Early-2008-A1066-922-6043---NEW-p-33986.html
Google the part numbers for more vender choices,
Or, you need to get a PCI WiFi card and antenna. BDAqua or Japamac have posted alternatives which are actually a little cheaper than the Apple parts.
The third alternative is a USB-based wireless adapter.

Installing Mac OS version 10.0.4 for a Power Mac G4

Wondering if anyone can help me, I spent all day trying to reinstall the Mac OS version 10.0.4 software that came with the computer in the first place. Decided we needed to restore our Power Mac G4 to its original state. I know, its 8 years old! LOL. I erased the HD and used all 4 restoring CD's. Came up at the end saying that the restore couldn't be completed cause it could not restore a "restricted-image". We ignored that and just moved on and installed the Mac OS 9.2 software- which seems to work. Then when we tried to install the Mac OS 10.0.4 software installer CD, the small little happy face computer came up on screen and so did that darn spinning ball! Then the ball froze and stopped spinning and we couldn't install the Mac OS 10.0.4 software CD at all. I don't know how many times we tried it. But it did it every time! So I tried to skip that and go directly to installing the Mac OS X 10.4. But the computer kept ejecting it every single time! It just wouldn't take it.
Someone please help! I'm going crazy with this thing!
Sincerely frustrated!

Be sure the computer shipped with those discs, & before attempting again
to install anything, use the disk tools in OS 9 and have then erase the
whole hard disk drive, and then reformat it. Nothing should be on the drive.
Then use the OS 9 installer, be sure to install OS 9 Drivers as part of the
installation, so you will have a running system. If there are any options,
in directing the installer to add extras, maybe due to the vintage of the
computer, you should be sure they are all installed.
(If the computer required OS X to be installed first, then you have a
different vintage issue on your hands. Some were that way.)
If one of the discs has a scratch or smudge, or if they aren't all for
the computer in question, the issue may be due to those details.
When you have OS 9 running on the computer, you could try going on-
line and running the OS 9 software update to see if there are some odd
updates to add to the running system. You may have to rebuild the
desktop and other routines for OS 9 to work, and continue to do so, as
a part of the install and update process.
If you have any proper OS 9 vintage disk utilities, you may wish to see
if any of them were decidedly good to use, and if not, discard them. A
few were great, and some were OK. Later on, some of the OS9 names
were making stuff for OS X; and a few were bad at it. Be advised.
OS 10.0 is hardly considered an operating system and nothing available
after that required it to be on the computer before hand; so it may be a
good deal to not install OS X 10.0.0 ~ 10.2.8 versions at all. Panther 10.3
was the first really ready OS X version for general purposes & it did well;
however, there are no new browser or much of anything current for it,
and no security updates, either.
If you do go into OS X, you may need to see if there is a suitable Firmware
Update required for that computer, to run OS X 10.2 or later (or any) and
if the Boot ROM or other indicator of a firmware version appears in the OS9
System Profiler, note what it is. The firmware should be updated and the
download from Apple Support for those older computer updates is free.
Since it is a G4 (you say) it may not need a firmware update. Check.
{If you had a retail installer for Panther 10.3 and went through the steps to
include the disc set and what not with the computer, or installed it (by so
doing, that beings a process of personalizing the installation; a new owner
may have to change the password to use it, but whatever name is used
to set up the new OS X system will remain in the computer.) They may not
like having your name in their computer; or having to reinstall & update it.}
A working OS 9.2.2 in a clean machine, without issues, with installer discs
to support the license agreement behind the system within the computer, is
set for use or sale; to install a very old OS X system is no advantage. To
include a vintage and basic OS X 10.3 retail installer disc set would leave
the window of opportunity for the machine to run a practical old OS X.
Note:
+Some computers shipped with installer discs which required a certain+
+and specific install path to get OS 9.0.x or 9.1, or 9.2 installed first,+
+and then the option sometimes was OS X 10.0 or 10.1, etc. Later on,+
+some of the dual-boot computers had to have a correct OS X 10.+
+installed first and then an OS 9.2 installed from a special OS 9 disc.+
If you are curious about your computer's exact identity, you could
try matching it by model number and build date era either from the
database at Apple Support (see products listing in scroll sidebar)
or see if you can use the information in the free download of the
handy database from MacTracker from: http://mactracker.ca
While I could probably spend some more time on this, and find
most of the details, I don't have the computer sitting here. You do.
Good luck & happy computing!

Power mac g4 MDD doesn't recognize any CD when booting with C depressed

Hi, I purchased this Power Mac Mirror Door Drive about a month ago on e-Bay. It came with OS 10.4.8 installed, no CD's for OS 10 and a CD with an Orange 9 containing OS 9.2.1. OS 9 was not installed on the machine. I have PhotoShop and Quark that require OS 9. I have tried to follow all your discussions on installing OS 9, keeping OS 10.4.8 intact, but so far this machine will not recognize any bootable CD. The best I've gotten so far is the machine placed one of the attempts on the desk top as an empty CD. I have tried to boot holding down the C key, booted in safe mode, have tried bootable OS 10.2.1 CD's, have tried bootable Software restore CD's (set of four CD's) with OS 9.2.2, Power Mac G4 OS 9.2.2 Install CD, eMac OS 9 Install CD, iMac OS 9 Install, all Gray Labels. So far nothing works. I live on a lake in TN and if this thing wasn't so expensive it would have been a boat anchor by now. I don't have any way to reload OS 10.4.8 or I would try to reformat one of the hard drives and start over. Apple told me that I need the same disks that were shipped with the machine and that they would cost me $180 delivered to my home. But that puts me back to OS 10.2.1 and then I would have to purchase OS 10.4.8 again. How can I get Classic to load on this machine? The CD drive will load a music CD, or a DVD, or a blank CD-R just fine.
Thanks,
Tony

Tony,
The set of 6 restore CD's certainly sound like they're from the right era. The part numbers are very close to those for my MDD, which was on sale at the same time as your dual 867MHz. I have varying numbers from 691-3545-A to 691-3548-A, 691-3600-A (for restore CD 4). The two OSX install CD's come with 691-3956-A and 691-4081-A. All my CD part no's are prefixed with Z, for International English.
Unfortunately the MDD's (at the time of your dual 867MHz MDD and my dual 1GHz MDD came with 4 restore CD's and two OSX install CD's. To get OS9 installed, it would need to be the right restore CD for the Mac.
Unless you're up for a bit of trickery. At no cost. All you need to be able to do is use the three Unix commands "cp", "ls" and "cd".
With the Mac booted up into OSX, open up a Terminal session, make the window bigger if you want. Insert the first PMG4 restore cd.
In Terminal:
Go to the /Volumes directory (cd /Volumes).
List the directories found there (ls -la)
Two will be the internal disks (20G and 60G if I remember). One will be for the Restore cd (probably called "Restore CD" or something.
go into the "Restore CD" directory. (cd Restore*) Note, if you try 'cd Restore CD', it will error, you would need double-quotes round a directory name with spaces in it, ie. cd "Restore CD".
List the directory contents (ls -la)
In there is a '.images' directory, which contains disk images, including one of OS9. You can't see this folder in the Finder.
Go into the .images directory (cd .images)
List the directory contents (ls -la)
There should be an OS9General.dmg disk image.
You will need to copy this to a directory that you can read (cp OS9* ~/).
It's a 300MB+ file, being copied from cd, so it may take 4-5 minutes.
Now in the Finder:
Go to your home directory.
There should be an OS9General.dmg disk image there. You can mount this.
It should have (fingers crossed) a usable OS9 System Folder (and OS9 Applications Folder) that you can use. Copy it to your startup disk. You may have to play around with the System/Finder to get the folder blessed. Then see if you can select it in the OSX Startup Disk system pref. Try a reboot if you feel brave.
I would go through all the other Restore CD's, just like above, looking for useful stuff you can install.
All this means nothing of course, if there are no OS9 drivers installed on the startup disk. But with two disks installed (and other Macs to hand) you should be able to reformat one of the disks (from within OSX) installing OS9 drivers.
Perhaps someone knows of a way to get OS9 drivers installed without having to reformat. I'm sure it can be done, but I have no experience of doing it.
Note, you're still left without an OS9 startup cd, but if all goes well, you're back in OS9. And there would be nothing to stop you putting an OS9 System Folder on each disk.
Let us know what you decide / do.

Installing an intel processor on a power mac G5 (2004) with mac os Xpanther

Hi everyone,
I really need some help, I need to update my Power Mac G5 because I discover that almost every single new upgrade for Final Cut Pro is for Intel Macs, so i would like to know if it is possible to install this processor to my oldie computer or can I upgrade my panther system to a leopard and being able to run the new programs??'. Thanks a lot
Eugenia

You can't install an Intel processor in your G5. For Intel you need to buy a new/newer Mac.
Here's the *Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard installation system requirements*
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24950 To upgrade, you can skip Tiger 10.4.
Recommend you increase RAM more than the minimum.
 Cheers, Tom

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