Leopard on 1st Gen G5

Has anyone installed Leopard on a (2004) 1st Gen G5 1.8 Processor with 768 MB of ram? If so, any problems? Thanks.

Hi Eugene
I had no problem at all and I just Updated to Leopard. Just make sure you do have a back up. I ran DW before and made sure I had no problems with the hard drive. You should be fine. PS if your running ShapeShifter make sure it is off
and all your login items are off
Good Luck
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esoltau wrote:
Still have 7 of 80 gig available, but the entire bottom of the shell gets very hot and the processing slows to a crawl. Suggestions? Thank you.
Clear some space on your disc or get a bigger Hard Drive for a start. It is a rule of thumb to have at least 15% of your Drive empty for good performance.You are running well under that, so I would be pretty sure that is your problem.
Your heading also says Snow Leopard but your profile says Lion.
Simply have to move some data (quite a bit - music, pics or movies) to an external drive if you can't afford a larger drive.
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Hey Guys. I have a 1st gen dual 2.3 powerPC G5. I just recently upgraded my OS to Leopard 10.5. I cannot for the life of me, get FlashPlayer to work. I Downloaded and installed the archived 10_1r102_64 version, but it still doesn't work.
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Jay, you may very well be up a creek without a paddle.
See in each Browser which version of Flash it thinks it has...
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/155/tn_15507.html
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http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome/
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1st Gen iPod touch Keeps Having to Be Re-Registered with iTunes

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Hi Brenda,
That screen, with the iTunes icon and the USB cable, means the iPod is in recovery mode.
This article: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808 provides more information about the mode and how-to use it to restore your iPhone or iPod touch.
Are you using any 3rd-party accessories with the iPod touch?
Does the accessory have the Made for iPod logo?
Try restoring the iPod again, setting it up as a new iPod, and testing it without any 3rd-party accessories.
If the issue persists, the iPod may need hardware repair. Just make a reservation to have a Genius take a look at it or call AppleCare.
http://www.apple.com/retail/geniusbar/
U.S. iPhone technical support: 1-800-MY-IPHONE (1-800-694-7466)
-Jason

My Old Classic 1st Gen 10GB doesn't recognize by computer

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then..i Follow the insruction from the apple here :
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- I Charge my iPod in Disk MOde..it works!!
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I'm getting tired....I go to Apple service..
u Knnow what they said : " Must Replace the harddisk"
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I'm getting tired

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My ipod has been syncing with both windows(itunes) and Linux apps on many machines over the past two years. Anyway if i can think of more info i will let you know.

No video whatsover G5 1st gen iMac

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1st gen iPod touch not showing in iTunes 10.6

Hi
though it was about time to update my music on my 1st gen iPod Touch, however, when i connected it to iTunes it does not show up.
Is anyone able to assist?
I have tried hard resets and it doesn't work.
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I have a 1st Gen, 1.83 Core Duo Macbook Pro that I'm going to sell, but before I do, I'd like to restore the laptop to it's original factory settings.
When I go to do an "Erase and Install" from my original factory disk (no scratches), everything seems to be working fine until it gets to the install screen that says "Preparing the Disk." The install process just seems to freeze at this point. I can still move my mouse and it doesn't seem "frozen," other than the fact that there is no progress in the progress bar. I've waited over an hour and still no progress. I've shut the system down and rebooted from disk but when I come to the same part, the same thing happens.
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Apple TV 3rd Gen no longer sees Airport Express 1st gen in Airplay after update

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and sent audio to the AirPort using Airplay and selecting the AirPort Express under Speakers.
I could adjust the volume with the AppleTV remote.
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After powering on yesterday, I ran the update.
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There are no updates available for the AirPort

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Check that both devices are on the same network (Settings > Wifi, on the mobile device and Settings > General > Network, on the Apple TV).
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Restart your router. (Also try removing it’s power cord for at least 30 seconds)
Restart your mobile device.
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Using 1st gen airport express with mavericks

When I upgraded to Mavericks, the updated Airport Utility dosen't support my version of airport express 1st generation. The old version of airport utility is not supported by mavericks. There is a version on the website that appears it may work, but I can't install it because their is a new version already installed. I cannot delete the new version, because the sytem blocks it with a message that it is necessary for the operating system.

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I spent about 4+ hours with Tech Support on this issue. There is no luck according to their Senior Technician. He spend time rummaging over the internet offering me solutions with 3rd party apps to get 'iCloud" back with pages, but none of them worked with an "Offline" mode. This was a big hinderance on myself as well. I am a Tech Writer and had a lot of documents that I needed to send to my Editor...he uses Pages as well... Once I edited my documents in the New Pages, he couldn't opened them...this is not good. I know newspapers all around are probably feeling this burn right now.
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MBA 1st Gen and Lion Performance

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Good Afternoon All,
I have a 1st Gen Nano 1GB that up until iTunes 9 was syncing fine, but now - Nada.
The Nano is in disk mode and appears just fine in Finder, I can eject it and it's charging fine but iTunes 9 won't see it.
I have:
- reset the iPod (not restored because it won't show up in iTunes)
- updated iTunes to r9 and checked for any other outstanding updates
- Re-installed iTunes 9
- this morning I applied the 10.6.1 update
- The update forced a reboot of the iMac so I have rebooted since the issue started
I can't do most of what is in this KB article because it won't appear in iTunes (hard to restore otherwise, right?): http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1410
My iPod Touch's (both 1Gen) connect to the same USB port/cable combination just fine and applied the 3.1 update to both through the same port/cable.
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Any help is greatly appreciated.

Fortunately I solved my own problem, but unfortunately it took an iTunes downgrade.
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As part of that I initially skipped the iTunes 9 update and connected the iPod to iTunes 8 - it was recognized instantly and uploaded my Nike+ data.
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