What a productive night -- til 5:30am

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2013, October 25 - 7:41am

themacmeister

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What a productive night -- til 5:30am

I managed to install a new PRAM battery in the 600MHz G3 iMac SE.

I also managed (after needing to drill one of the screws from the baseplate) to install the following into my 700MHz G4 iMac (sunflower).

a) a new PRAM battery
b) Apple DVD-RW left over from the Mac Pro - Yes, SATA drive in an IDE G4. I used an IDE->SATA adaptor, luckily, the new DVD-RW was an inch shorter than Apple's existing CD-RW drive, allowing for the adaptor to fit comfortably. The adaptor was ripped from a 500GB DTB/Video Recorder (of dubious quality - fluorescent lights would turn the machine on and off).
c) new ram - now 768MB

I also (thanks to a very helpful member of MG) installed the old HDD into a firewire optical drive enclosure, and managed to BOOT OS9 from it!!! Also works nicely as an external HDD for any purpose.

Next step is installing XPostFacto and getting 10.4.11 installed (on the iMac SE).

PICS COMING!

Cheers!

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2013, October 25 - 11:33pm

themacmeister

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I would be nowhere without this...

schweeeet

Restoring old HDD to the new 80GB...
yups

The fruit of my labours -- Apple Supported DVD burning, and 48GB free space...
oh yeah

2013, October 25 - 11:26am

Nicolas Bahamondes

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That's amazing! Adding DVD authoring support to an iMac is a big deal.

2013, October 25 - 11:31pm

themacmeister

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UPDATE:

New PRAM battery installed in iMac SE.

Once again, the external firewire enclosure saves the day. Installed 10.4 onto firewire from G4 iMac (CD version). Booted firewire on iMac SE, used XPostFacto4 to install 10.4 onto iMac SE Hard Drive.

Installed 9.2.2 from CD onto iMac SE Hard Drive.

I will copy the full collection of software off the G4 shortly. I am a bit short of available power sources with this many Macs in one room...

WIN!

2013, October 31 - 8:59pm

Bolkonskij

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Awesome, well done!

..til 5:30am. You must be a student? Aw, those were the days ...

2013, November 1 - 2:28am

themacmeister

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not a student Bolkonskij, just someone with too much fanatical love for fiddling with computers.

I am having so many issues dual-booting, that I am seriously considering having only the one OS on the machine -- and IT MAY NOT BE MAC OSX !!!

Wow, that would be a first. Unfortunately, you need Mac OS X to enable AHCI mode under Windows (a one-off procedure).

I'm going to try and find more information online from people who are running only Windows on their Mac Pro's.