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Got a G4 Powermac...Need help.....
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Ive got a 1ghz Dual processer Mirror door Powermac and now i need help. A little info on it frist, the sticker on the case reads, "DP 1GHZ/256MB DDRDRAM/80GB HD/SUPERDRIVE/RADEON 9000 PRO/56K/1000BT. Now I need to find a harddrive for it. Frist of all it has 4 bays for harddrives, where does it go at when you use just one? Second that type of Harddrive should i use for it. Also im going to guess that this is able to run Tiger? After checking it out i found that it has 1280mb of ram. Im going to office depot later to get a DVI to VGA adaptor for it.
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Sounds like it doesn't have a hard drive in it now. That model takes parallel ATA (PATA) hard drives. Two of the internal bays are ATA-100, the other two are ATA-66. Both bays support drives larger than 128 GB.
It doesn't matter where you put a drive, the system will find it. Technically, putting it in the ATA-100 bay will be faster, but in practice today's HD speeds are not high enough for you to notice much difference between the bays. Use Cable Select on this model - earlier G4s did not support CS, but the Mirror Drive Door G4s do.
Yes, all G4s and G5s can run Tiger.
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just out of curiousity..........
How is that you can own 6 macs, know what a DVI-VGA adapter is, be able to determine the amount of ram in your new G4, but you dont know what kind of HD it takes or where to install it ?
just wondering what you've been doing with all those macs for the last 5.5 years 
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Signatures are ugly. Bitchy women are ugly......YOU do the math :)
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Well all my macs up untill now have been preG3 stuff, other than the iMac. I knew it took an ATA drive. Doesnt matter anyway as i got a 120gb drive for a good price. And i own 10 macs and a Newton, just not all are listed.
And is there anykind of powersupply issues with this computer? The people i got it from said it has a power supply issue. I cant seem to find anything other than it sounds like a 747 getting ready to take off, but i wont complain about that since it was free.
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Originally Posted by Bandit240
but i wont complain about that since it was free.
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stuffing feathers up your b*tt doesn't make you a chicken.
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it sounds like a 747 getting ready to take off
hence the nickname "wind tunnel" G4 now you know why!
never heard of any power supply issues with them though......
check the apple.com forums
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