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Because there are twenty eight Power Mac G3 and Power Mac G4 models (as well as equivalent Mac Server G3 and Mac Server G4 models) that match the M5183 model number, you may wish to lookup yours by EMC Number, Model ID, or Serial Number for greater precision. The iMac G4 originally included both Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X, due to the machine being released the year Mac OS 9 was discontinued. When running newer versions of Mac OS X (Tiger and Leopard), the iMac G4's GeForce4 MX GPU was not capable of Core Image rendering. This causes some minor graphical issues. G4 400MHz single CPU, 'Gigabit Ethernet', #2 A grey tower G4 400Mhz, model M5183, motherboard 820-1153 A, Single 400MHz processor 820-1163A. This has DVD-ROM (Hitachi GD-7000), ZIP drive, the usual Firewire and USB but it has Gigabit Ethernet, and a 2X AGP video slot.
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This is my first post on this forum and I guess the title says it all. I have a PB G4 17' early 2005 model. Everything works perfectly on it and its running Tiger 10.4.11.
The problem started when I decided to buy an external case and install a drive with Leopard in it so I can boot from it in Leopard without messing with my internal drive. So, I bought an AKASA Integral 2.5' USB 2.0/FireWire case and I installed a brand new 2.5' 320GB WD Scorpio Blue drive in it. The drive's native interface is ATA/IDE since this is the kind of interface the AKASA case needed.
I booted off my Leopard CD-ROM and installed the OS on the external drive which was connected via FireWire to the Powerbook. Everything went fine.
However, when I tried to boot the PB off the external drive (via firewire of course), I got the 'folder with the questionmark' icon first and then the PB proceeded to boot from the internal drive containing the Tiger OS.
I have to mention three things at this point:
1) When I connected the AKASA to my Intel Mac mini (2007) it booted flawlessly via BOTH firewire and USB. So we know that the drive is indeed bootable. It won't boot via USB on the PB but that's to be expected.
2) I can connect the drive via USB or FireWire to the PB and it shows up fine in Finder (in Tiger) and I can read/write to it with no problem. The drive has been formatted with APM (as it should for PPC booting).
3) I even tried cloning my internal HD to the external HD via BOTH SuperDuper and Carbon Copy Cloner. Although the copying went fine it still would not boot!
So, we have a drive that, although is partitioned for PPC booting, it boots on an Intel Mac but not on the PPC PowerBook
Is it possible that the previous owner set the prefs so the PB will not boot off an external drive? And if this is the case how do I change that? (I have already reset PRAM.)
If you have ANY ideas please help because I'm about to resort to voodoo, black magic and doing some kind of weird dance in the forrest!