Ok, so as much as I wanted a new iMac the money just isn't there so for the time being I threw together a machine from parts that we were getting rid of at work. After much fiddling to get OS9 on the machine to update the firmware on the PATA card(royal PITA) it seems to be all running well except the 10.5.6 combo update just hangs at the start(currently at 10.5) All other updates have installed fine. it was nearly 3AM when I finished everything so I left it there. Any reason it would do that?
stats: Early Quicksilver 733MHz 1.8GHz processor upgrade (power logix) 1.25GB RAM Radeon9000 Pro (from a MDD) Sonnet ATA133 card Dynex(whatever bestbuy brand)4 port USB 2.0 card Air port card super drive (pioneer 109? apple branded one) booting off the Sonnet card have a pair of 320GB WD drives as RAID 1 and a 500GB on the other channel airport is off wising the internal ethernet... Oh and I figured I'd do it this way, with a 22" 1920x1080 westinghouse for all of $180 that I can use later with a mini or something when we can afford a newer machine... in the mean time this is faster than my 700MHz eMac and I FINALLY have USB 2.0 (transfering with an iPod, camera and flip video was a real slow process on USB1.1!) -sam --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
