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    Harpertown/Penryn hard drive options

    Hi, The 120GB limit is as ancient as your G4 ;-) . You will get every byte out of 2TB drive ( and probably out of 3TB and upcomming 4TB drives) in a Mac Pro. I Do. However Mac Pro only support SATA drives in standard disk "drawers". The harpertown still has IDE optical drive so you can use...
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    NO VIDEO - NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT (early 2008)

    Did you plug the additionnal power cable ?
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    Two video cards, an ATI and a NVIDIA and vista in a Mac Pro

    Hi, A friend of mine bought a Mac Pro with the standard configuration, that is with a ATI 2600XT. He also bought a GeForce 8800 GT 1Gb for use with vista only. We tryed to flash the card so it would work on the Mac OS side but the eprom size was only 64KB. So the idea would be to have both...
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    Vista 64 bit & boot camp

    I found this : bootcamp driver won't install on the mac book pro. You will have to find every driver serparately. This page will help : http://www.start64.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1903&Itemid=104
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    Vista 64 bit & boot camp

    Vista 64 is supported on Mac Pros so it might work on other machines as well. It currently work very well on my new mac pro.
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    How to test a G5 power supply

    Thanks a lot again, you were right, the processors where not reseated correctly. Everything works fine again now.
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    Why do I see .DS_Store everywhere now?

    have you tried repairing the drive with disk utility ? Moreover you should backup your data asap I've seen lost files soon after this kind of symptoms. You can also try alsoft's disk warrior. It is not free but saved my day a number of time, and, more importantly, never made the situation worst...
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    iMac OS 9 upgrade to OS X 10.4

    Tiger is running fine in my ibook G3 500mhz, with 320Mb. On a 800Mhz G4 it will work like a charm. You won't be able to upgrade from Mac OS 9 it will be a fresh install, but the Mac OS 9 data won't be lost. Tiger still includes "Classic", contrary to leopard. So you friend will be able to...
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    Problem getting head set to work

    Does the usb peripheral appear in the sound outputs in the "sound" system preference ? This is where you can choose whre the sound output will be sent.
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    How to test a G5 power supply

    I changed the power supply today. The mac now turns on, every fans work correctly but I have no display. I checked with 2 video cards with the same result. I also look like the powermac refuses to power the old usb apple keyboard I have. caps lock is not active. a usb mighty mouse do light up...
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    How to test a G5 power supply

    Thanks a lot for your very complete answer. I tested the pins as you advised and got nothing so it is effectively a PSU problem. Thanks again Tristan
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    How to test a G5 power supply

    My 2*1.8Mhz G5 tower (second version) shutdown two day ago and refuses to turn up again. I have absolutely no sign of life, not even the external white led or the internal red one. I'm trying to figure out whether it is the power supply of the start button which cause the problem. Is it...
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