Re: Startup Problems

2010-10-15 Thread Gottick International
Ok... Changed battery. Problem still there. Any more suggestions? On Oct 13, 2010, at 3:23 PM, Gottick International wrote: Folks I have this strange problem trying to start a iMac G5. The story runs like this. 1/ I start the machine and get the blinking question mark. 2/ I start the

64-bit question

2010-10-15 Thread Arnel Tuazon
I know my G5 is 64-bit (I have the late 2005 dual core PPC G5), but is Leopard (10.5.9) 64-bit? I've been looking on the net, but couldn't find a definitive answer. I was told that only 10.6+ is 64-bit. If this is true is there an alternative OS that will run at 64-bit on the PPC G5? Not that

Re: 64-bit question

2010-10-15 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
Linux has a 64-bit version that would run on the G5. Check out Yellow Dog Linux: www.terrasoftsolutions.com On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 22:03, Arnel Tuazon a.tua...@gmail.com wrote: I know my G5 is 64-bit (I have the late 2005 dual core PPC G5), but is Leopard (10.5.9) 64-bit?  I've been looking

Re: 64-bit question

2010-10-15 Thread Joshua Juran
On Oct 15, 2010, at 8:03 PM, Arnel Tuazon wrote: I know my G5 is 64-bit (I have the late 2005 dual core PPC G5), but is Leopard (10.5.9) 64-bit? I've been looking on the net, but couldn't find a definitive answer. I was told that only 10.6+ is 64-bit. If this is true is there an

Differences between single and dual G4 Quicksilvers

2010-10-15 Thread Powermac
Is there a difference on the motherboards on the single and dual G4 Quicksilvers? Can you go from single to dual or the other way with no problems? Currently I have a QS2002 single G4-800 with no L3 cache that is about half as slow as my QS2001 with a Sonnet single G4-1.25ghz with 2MB L3. So I