Power Mac G5 disks # 2Z691-5025-A

Was trying to find 10.4 for my iMac and accidentally purchased the incorrect software on Ebay. The discs are system specific -- part number in subject. I am trying to re-sell now and someone asked if they could use them for an Intel based Mac. What should I tell them? Is there some way to find out which Power Mac G5 that these discs are for? Don't want to lead someone wrong, like I felt I was on Ebay.... Thanks so much!

Thank you so much. Do you think anyone will want these? (I mean are there many G5 computers where someone would want to install 10.4?)

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My Power Mac G4 will no longer show the finder or any of my folders. It boots beyond the grey and blue screens to show a screensaver I'd chosen earlier, but doesn't show the finder or any of my folders. It will not read any of its original install disks, nor read the OS X Panther disks.
I don't know if its versions are current. It has no internet card, which has not been a problem until now as I also use a G5 that's on a cable modem.
I got this computer second-hand. It came with these disks:
Apple Hardware Test (Power Mac G4)
Power Mac G4 Software Install
Power Mac G4 Software Restore
Power Mac G4 Developer Tools
Mac OS X Panther Install Disks 1, 2 and 3
I have tried installing them all from the screensaver mode, as well as from CD mode. Nothing has been forthcoming. Is my data still present? Does the OS X need to be installed, or has the system just stalled in the booting? I've rebooted a dozen or more times while working with the disks. Since I'm getting beyond the grey and blue screens, is this a sign of life?

Hi t_orzechowski!
Have you found a resolution yet?
Have you ever run Repair Disk?
THESE ARE THE STEPS FOR USING DISK UTILITY TO REPAIR YOUR HD
1.Insert the System Install disk, Mac OS X CD-ROM disk, or Restore DVD disk, then restart the computer while holding the C key. Use the System disk, of the OS, that is currently installed.
2.Once started up from CD or DVD, on the Menubar at the top of the screen, choose Disk Utility from the Installer contextual menu.
Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from disc to access Disk Utility.
3.Click the First Aid tab.
4.Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
5.Select your Mac OS X volume, if necessary.
6.Click Repair. If DU reports errors it has fixed, re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported.
7.Repeat steps 5 & 6, but select the Hard Drive this time. It's usually the first listed with the manufacturer's model number. Make note of the S.M.A.R.T. status.
8.When finished, select Quit Disk Utility from the Installer menu.
9.Select Quit Installer from the Installer menu.
10.In the resulting pop-up window, choose restart.
11.After the computer has restarted, you can eject the CD.
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Power Mac G4 Won't startup and ejects boot disk.

Hello,
Recently, I got a used Power Mac G4. On startup, it gets to the loading bar and doesn't load anything. It's just a blank white bar with no text aside from the apple logo at the top of the window. I tried inserting the Tiger recovery disk, but when I turn it on, it ejects the disk. I made sure that my keyboard and mouse were not plugged in as it was booting up (there are no other devices that may be causing it to eject), but it's still not solving the problem.
What could possibly be causing this problem?
Thanks,
Nami

It could easily be many things, Logic Board, RAM,Corrupted PRAM or NVRAM, even PSU or anything else, we just have don't have enough data out here to narrow it down yet.
I don't suppose it boots into Target mode...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661
EDIT: Sometimes even a flaky Optical Drive will prevent normal operation & needs to be disconnected.
Might be time to replace the PRAM Battery, 4 years is close to their lifespan, far less if ever without AC power, & if weak can cause really strange problems...
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/BAA36VPRAM/

Power Mac G4 no iMovie and no restore disk

I purchased a used Power Mac G4. It is running OS 10.4
The problem is that it does not have iMovie installed. Online help states that I need the restore disk, which I don't have. Is there a way to get it, or is there another alternative?
The other problem is that updating the software requires a password from the former owner. The machine boots to desktop without a password, it's just needed for updating Safari. Is there a way to reset that?
The machine is in other wise fine shape and I'd like to make it useful.
Thanks,
Jay

If you are in the US call Apple Customer Support 1-800-767-2775, provide the Serial Number and specifications of the Mac, and for a reasonable fee, they will supply a replacement set of system discs (if available).
The discs will be for the original version of the OS that was pre-installed when the Mac was manufactured.
If you are in another country:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HE57
Have you asked the vendor for the password?
iMovie is part of iLife. You should be able to purchase the relavent version on eBay or Amazon.

Power Mac G4 stuck in Target Disk Mode

The other night I put my Gigbit Ethernet into Target Disk Mode so I could migrate my files to a newer machine (a mirrored drive door G4 with dual 1.42mhz processors). After the migration was complete (which took 9 hours), I tried ejecting the target disk but got a perpetual spinning beach ball and had to force everything off. Unfortunately, either because my newer machine came with a faulty Tiger installation, or my migration messed the installation up - the finder kept crashing and things such as "Get Info" wasn't working- I had to endeavor to get a working version of Tiger on the newer machine. I wanted to clone my older drive to my newer drive.
Futzing around for over an hour to try to gain access to my old Power Mac's hard Disc, which was still, according to the bouncing Icon on the screen, in target disk mode, I could not access the drive at all from the newer machine. When I tried, such as by double clicking on its desktop icon, by right clicking on the same Icon, or if I went into the system preferences to change the startup disk with the gigabit ethernet attached, I got the perpetual spinning beach ball. Also, I could not access the drive from the disk utility app that is on the Tiger install DVD. Luckily, I had a pretty fresh bootable backup of the gigabit ethernet on a firewire drive that I cloned to my newer computer. I just have a handful of files that I want to transfer from the gigabit ethernet if I had my drothers.
Am I screwed here? Is there a way to force my Gigabit Ethernet out of Target Disk Mode without hooking it up to another computer? If it's possible to get the Gigabit Ethernet to boot again successfully, I can transfer my file over my network. Any help would be appreciated.
Cheers

I am confused...it sounds to me like what you wish to do is to make an exact copy of the hard disk in your Gigabit Ethernet and apply that copy to the drive in your MDD, correct?
From what I understand, you are saying you cannot access your GE's hard disk using target disk mode? Or am I mistaken? Also, can you not boot up normally on the GE's hard disk? Is there something wrong with it?
The easiest way to clone a disk is to just make a disk image of the hard disk you wish to keep, and then apply that disk image to the destination disk. Disk utility can perform all this very easily, and pretty quickly. Of course, if you are having trouble booting in target disk mode, this can be a problem...
I'm still kind of confused on what exactly is the problem, and what you are trying to accomplish. Could you please explain a little more and answer the questions above? Much appreciated.

Installed new hard disk to power mac g4

hi
i have just installed a new hdd to a power mac g4, when i go to install the os 9 9.2.1 it won't see the hard disk if i install a later os like os x it see it.
any ideas?

Hello Keiron and Don,
Have just recently had a problem similar enough that relating it might help.
First, I always fit the Seagate ST380013A 80GB ATA-133 HD. I've had excellent experience with about a dozen of them. I've never used the cable select setting...I forget when you're supposed to, but I've used them in ones and twos and threes and never used aught but master and slave. I don't think that'a the problem unless the QS is different from earlier Macs.
Subject Mac is a dual-processor Sawtooth. Never had any trouble, except that I partitioned the HD in three. Installed Tiger. No problem, except that I didn't like it. Installed Panther. No problem. Went to install OS9. Wouldn't install, so I assume I didn't install OS9 drivers. No problem, so I installed a second Panther without all the languages and voice recognition. Worked great. Installed OS 9 on separate drive. Worked great. Installed OEM Geforce 3 video card in order to see Google maps. No problem. Snatched the OEM Geforce 3 for the DA, and installed a (cheap)(flashed?) Geforce 3 from a self-described Mac expert. Problem. No boot. No video. No screen. No nothin'. Reset PRAM on advice of self-described expert. No nothin'. Replaced bogus Geforce 3 with real thing. Mac monitor (19" Radius) lights up, gives me the spinning wheel, and then the 'nada' symbol. Replaced the tripartite OSX drive with a known-good OS9. Flashing question mark. Wonderful. Tried known-good OSX. Spinning wheel and nada. Better yet.
Booted from an OS9 CD. Booted fine. Didn't see any drives. Now I get a little hazy. What I did was look at the startup disk folder and the drive setup folder on the OS9 CD. First nothing. Then three or four drives (one of which was a phantom) all greyed out. Then finally an opportunity to select a startup drive. Selected it. Wouldn't restart. Wouldn't shut down. Pulled the plug. Booted again from the CD. Now I could see the drives in drive setup. Somewhere in here I managed to verify a disk. Restarted. Mac restarted, but from the CD. Pulled the plug. Restarted while pushing the eject button on the DVD/CD player. CD ejected. Restarted - after a while - to the OS 9 drive. Checked the startup drive in the control panel. Nothing selected. Reselected the startup drive. Restarted promptly, or at least as promptly as it ever does. Couldn't select any resolution but 640 x 480 (I think) at 60 hz. Installed known-good OSX Panther drive (both drives on separate busses of an Acard-133 controller card and jumpered master - though I don't think it matters) and selected OSX as startup. Restarted, and has continued to work without problem. I can also select the full spectrum of resolutions for the Geforce 3, but only from OSX.
As I say, this is probably an imperfect recounting. I suspect the resetting of the PRAM made it hard to see the drives. Does the controller card figure, or the Geforce 3? Did the bogus Geforce 3 card leave a legacy? Where did the phantom drive come from? Where did it go?
Point I'm suggesting is that I'd try poking aroung with the OS9 install CD utilities and see if that would help. The extraneous detail is provided in case someone recognises the pattern and can make some sense of it. To provide the latest chapter, the Sawtooth continues to work without problem and as well as it ever did. The maps are awesome.
HTH ..... Jon

Can you install tiger on a power mac g4 with out a DVD drive if so how, I do have have a 2011 iMac can I use that in target disk mode with a FireWire cable any help would be appreciated

Can you install tiger on a power mac g4 with out a DVD drive if so how, I do have have a 2011 iMac can I use that in target disk mode with a FireWire cable any help would be appreciated

Hello,
You need to put the Tiger Install Disc in the 2011 iMac, boot the 2011 uMac into Target mode...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661
Boot the G4 holding the Option or alt key, hopefully the Install Disc in the 2011 iMac will show as a boot choice.
We just want to use the 2011 iMac as a big expensive FW Optical drive, it cannot be installed osing the 2011 iMac itself.

How do I back up files and reinstall original disks on my Power Mac G-4 (2000)

How do I back up files and reinstall original disks on my Power Mac G-4 (yr. 2000). I know that sounds basic but I have very few techno skills. So please "talk down" to me. I had a newer PC (2005) but the hard drive crashed and I am trying to resuscitate this old mac until I can afford to buy a new one. I am in the middle of writing a book (based on Steve Job's life) and must have SOMETHING to write with. Anyone have a better one they can loan me? I am in Maine on the coast. BTW this machine seems to have trouble reading or formatting most CD-disks. Can anyone recommend a type and brand that works well with this model? Thanks for any assistance anyone can render. Here is what I have:
Machine Name:          Power Mac G4
Machine Model:          PowerMac3,4
CPU Type:          PowerPC G4 (2.9)
Number Of CPUs:          1
CPU Speed:          467 MHz
L2 Cache (per CPU):          1 MB
Memory:          768 MB
Bus Speed:          133 MHz
Boot ROM Version:          4.2.8f1

Why do you want to reformat the drive? Is it because the machine is running slow?
Be sure to backup you important files, like the book, daily.
The cheapest approach would be to try to figure out why the machine is running slow. Be sure to try safe boot.
You may want to run these "standard" fixes if the problem persists.
1) Check the amount of free space on your harddrive. You should have a several gigs free.
2) You should run disk utility
      Macintosh-HD -> Applications -> Utilities -> Disk Utility
      a) verify the disk
      b) update your permissions.
3) Try a safe boot.
     Shutdown your machine. Hold down the shift key. Poweron. Wait awhile; wait awhile while you harddrive
     is being checked.
     http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1455
4) Another way to correct filesystem problems is into single use mode.
     This page will tell you how to get into single user mode.
     http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1492
    Basically, you hold down the command + s key then powering on your machine. The command key
    has a little apple symbol on the lower left. It is between the alt/option key and the space bar.
4) You may want to run applejack to clean up your machine.
      http://applejack.sourceforge.net/
6) Run hardware diagnostics. It's good for a sanity check.
The older versions of ccc were donationware.
Here are two utilities for making a complete backup of your internal hard drive. I've recommend using one of these so that you can create a bootable system on your external hard drive. ( PPC require a firewire connected drive. ) Once created, you can run your system from the external drive. Hold down the option key on your keyboard then power on your machine. This will bring you in startup manager click on the drive image you wish to boot then click on the arrow key to the right.
"Clone, synchronize, backup. Schedule and forget it."
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
"SuperDuper is the wildly acclaimed program that makes recovery painless, because it makes creating a fully bootable backup painless."
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html

Use the Power Mac as a storage disk

Hi
I am setting up a iMac to be my main computer and was wondering if I could use my old Power Mac 4,1 as a storage disk? If so what would I need to do to have this happen?

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Suggestions for disks from Power Mac G4 Tower?

Hello fellow Mac users,
I still have the complete disk set for my old Power Mac G4 desktop system (it died and I've moved on to two MacBook Pros). Any suggestions for what I should do with them?
Thanks for the advice
Regards,
Vicki

Suggest you join LEM-Swap for buying & selling Mac stuff. http://groups.google.com/group/lemswap After you join, post a FS (For Sale). Be specific about what model G4 they came with, because they may only work with that model.
 Cheers, Tom

I have a Power MAC 7200. It's hardware is failing. How can I get the old files off, so I can use them on a PC? This system will save to a 3.5 inch floppy disk.

My Power Mac 7200 is failing. I would like to be able to use old reports on my PC. How can I transfer them?
The Mac will save files to a 3.5 inch floppy disk.

You could write the files to a PC formatted floppy, you might be able to do File Sharing from it to the PC with an Ethernet cable.
How bad off is the 7200? Can we maybe fix it?

Power mac os 10.3 disks on imac

Can i use my 10.3 disks I bought for my B&W mac on my imac to upgrade from os 9 or do I need imac 10.3 disks? New mac user so I don't have a clue...

If the disks are from a "retail" package, it will work. These are disk sold in a shrink-wrapped box and are not machine specific. Mine are black with a silver (metallic "X"). Since the Blue and White Power Mac G3 never had Mac OS X 10.3 included when it was sold, it must be retail. So I think it will work on the iMac. Be sure the iMac's firmware is upgraded BEFORE installing Mac OS X (and the iMac meets system requirements).
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86117

HT201364 I have a Power Mac G# B&W, 400 Mhz, Igh mem. I have installed OS X Leopard on it. It request I install OS 9.1 classic to accommodate the classic programs. I have serveral OS 9.1 install and restrore disk. I have tried several but with no avail. I

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Technically it can't without a special software known as LeopardAssist.
The firmware required is here:
Power Macintosh G3 (Blue and White) Firmware Update 1.1
Power Macintosh G3 (Blue and White) with SCSI (I could not find, remove any SCSI card before using Tiger or Leopard)
The installer disk must look like:
http://www.thebookyard.com/images/OSX9DISK.jpg
And not say Upgrade, Dropin, a Mac model, or OEM. Once you have 9, you can get 9.0.4, 9.1, and 9.2.2 updates through the iinet link mentioned earlier.
Firmware updates and other OS 9 updates are on the following links for reference, but the iinet is where the downloads are still available.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1395
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2751

Is it possible to erase a Power Mac G5 without the disk

Is it possible to erase/clean a Power Mac G5 without the disc? We have the disk, but when ever we try to start up from it, the fan just gets louder and louder, and the circle spins on the desktop and never loads. We are trying to clean the computer off so we can sell it. Any advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks!

We have the disk, but when ever we try to start up from it, the fan just gets louder and louder, and the circle spins on the desktop and never loads.
I'd make a quick run at resurrecting the opticl drive first. Optical drives get dirty and that can make them stupid. For US$5-15, you can get a brush-type drive cleaning disk. It is remarkable how many seemingly dead drives come back to life with a cleaning.
I'd also examine the disk closely to see it it's damaged or dirty. I had a disk that refused to work in a drive that worked with everything else. Looked closely at the offending disk and found there was peanut butter(!) on it. Washing it off in the kitchen sink and a loving chat with my peanut butter-eating son fixed the problem.

Power Mac won't recognize startup disk.

I am trying to use a Norton SystemWorks 3.0 original boot CD as my startup disk so I can run Norton recover file app.. I tried booting with the CD in the internal Superdrive by holding down the option key. The pick your startup volume window appeared but only the internal HD startup volume appeared. I also tried booting from the same Norton CD by using the Preference Startup Disk options. When I tried this, the Norton CD appeared, I selected it and confirmed that I wanted to change to the Norton CD as my startup disk. However, when the system rebooted it booted from the internal HD startup volume and not the Norton CD as selected. I finally tried to boot with the Norton CD in the Superdrive and holding down the "c" key. The system never booted. I got the mac folder and ? mark instead. This is my first Power Mac...can you tell me what I'm doing wrong? If I try the same Norton CD as a startup disk in an iMac using 10.4.3, it works ok. THANKS!

Hi:
Back again. I tried the OSX install disk and its startup disk menu option. However, since I had the install disk in the Superdrive I could swap it out to see if the Norton CD would be recognized. I was glad to find out that the Superdrive will recognize a startup or boot disk, i.e., OSX install disk. So, it's not the Superdrive. There's nothing wrong with my system...I just wanted to try to use Norton file recovery to retrieve some Mail messages I deleted by accident. I know there is a problem with Norton and 10.4.x. I'm looking at replacing it with either Tech Tools Pro, Drive Genius or just using Apple Disk Utility, Onyx and iPartition and iDefrag. If you think of anything esle, please let me know. Thanks for your time. I love my Dual...your're going to love the Quad! Cheers!

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