All, I have a Dual G5 1.8 and I'm looking for basic TV tuner capabilties from my cable. I don't need any TiVo like abilities. Rather, I just want to be able to pop up a window o…

Quote: Originally Posted by JFischel All, I have a Dual G5 1.8 and I'm looking for basic TV tuner capabilties from my cable. I don't need any TiVo like abilities. Rather, I j…

I have an AlchemyTV PCI card in my Dual 1.8 G5, but it is the one w/o the builtin TV Tuner (I use my VCR as a tv tuner). When I bought my AlchemyTV card, I was told that the one w…

Hey, I had the Miglia card and it will now work with a G5! You can get them Very inexpensively and it is GREAT for watching TV. On my G4 it wasn't powerful enough to be a DVR and…

Being an MS beta tester, I have a copy of Vista 5270.. as I understand it, this OS fully supporst EFI. However, I don't fully understand EFI. Additionally, I've never bothered to…

OK - Good luck! Remember that the iPod needs to be connected via FW to be bootable. David.

I'm betting it doesn't boot due to some sort of driver issues.

I don't think Windows can boot from a USB/Firewire drive. I'm almost certain XP can't, maybe they've added this to Vista?

Quote: Originally Posted by jasong I don't think Windows can boot from a USB/Firewire drive. I'm almost certain XP can't, maybe they've added this to Vista? Windows XP (and…

Holding down the C key at boot will hopefully boot you into the vista installer. Don't forget to take some pics!

I've got an Intel iMac and a copy of build 5270 of Vista, and I haven't figured out a way to boot yet. None of the typical ways of dealing with selecting a boot volume work: holdin…

reindeer, try holding D when the Vista disc is in the drive while the computer is booting up and see if anything happens.

Quote: Originally Posted by xDOUGHNUTx reindeer, try holding D when the Vista disc is in the drive while the computer is booting up and see if anything happens. Doesn't the…

Quote: Originally Posted by ravenz Doesn't the D key force startup from the hard drive? Aha! (From the iMac manual..."D" key is used. I will try this today on some differe…

Do you really think that Apple staff will be happy with you meddling with their display machines and trying to get one of them to run a competing OS?

Quote: Originally Posted by ravenz Aha! (From the iMac manual..."D" key is used. I will try this today on some different OS installer CDs, although I don't have Vista with EFI …

Not entirely sure about this being 100% genuine yet, btu have a look at: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=6933 sounds interesting.

Quote: Originally Posted by jestera Not entirely sure about this being 100% genuine yet, btu have a look at: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=6933 sounds inte…

from developer technical q&a HW35 comes this tip: Quote: COMMAND-OPTION-SHIFT-DELETE Attempt to force boot from any device other than from the device specified by …

Quote: Originally Posted by jestera Not entirely sure about this being 100% genuine yet, btu have a look at: http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?showtopic=6933 sounds inte…

Supermegatron posted this over at the osx86 project web site: Quote: our computer guy at school has xp running on his new imac he said you need to mac a partition on y…

Well the worst case scenario is they need to reinstall the software- which they do everynight anyway, but of course.. the store closed before I was able to go. I'll try again toda…

Quote: Originally Posted by mrplow Well the worst case scenario is they need to reinstall the software- which they do everynight anyway, but of course.. the store closed before …

Quote: Originally Posted by mrplow but as stated above someone already tried Vista on iMac, so perhaps it's not worth my time--- the previous tester did not have a version…

Quote: Originally Posted by Reindeer Flotilla I've got an Intel iMac and a copy of build 5270 of Vista, and I haven't figured out a way to boot yet. None of the typical ways of …