Re: iMac G5 - Help
On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 05:46 +0100, Marc Coevoet wrote:
> I bought a Blue White rev 1 and it doesn't even do OS X ;-(
>
> I see that linux does install sometimes, but only with one
> 64Mb memory chip or so...
>
> Yesterday my Apple dealer gave me 2 128Mb SDRAM,
> to no avail ...
That has nothing to do with linux... The RAM mustn't be good for that
machine (it was quite picky)
> Memory in the G5 is precious too ..
>
> the story's on
>
> http://users.fulladsl.be/spb13810/apple/
>
> I have found a G4/Yikes mobo, but still need to find a processor.
> (ZIF socket) (never tried the mobo though )
>
> But I think about bringing Apple into court
> because I would never have bought the BW if their website would have
> stated:
>
> "OS X doesn't really work well on a third of the BWs "
Heh. Have you tried updating the firmware ? Also, the main problem with
the BW is the U/DMA hard disk controller, you may be having problems
with that too...
Ben.
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