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Post #16 by AusNick
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryPowerPC
Post DateMon, 4 Jan 2010 - 05:19
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/scored-a-perfect-imac-g4-800mhz.19228/
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M6498

I suspect it may have been opened up before, an upgrade prior to delivery to the original owner? As it has 512 Megs of RAM, 256/256. Course I want to take it to the maximum 1 Gig.

Going bigger and better on the hard drive and DVD drive will be where I run into problems. I can live with it if I have to, just burns of anything will take forever.

I managed to get the thing to boot into OS 9 (copying the system folder from my G4 tower), and everything seems to work as it should, but I don't think the video hardware is being correctly supported, it defaults to the maximum resolution (1440x900) but only at 8-bit. This I can't live with, and support through Apple or anywhere seems to be lacking.

It really would have helped if I'd gotten the original install CDs.

Nick

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