 |
 |
Can I swap my System drive from a Dual 2.0 g5 to a 2.5 Ghz with nVidia 6800?
|
|
|
|
|
Senior User
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Los Angeles
Status:
Offline
|
|
This is a bit obscure. Recently received a Dual 2.5Ghz G5 with nvidea 6800. My old G5 has a 250 gig hard drive (filled), and the new G5 has a 160 gigger. So I want to swap the old G5 hard drive into the new G5. I actually tried this last week, but the drive wouldn't boot in the new G5...there was something incompatible about the OS on the drive (10.3.5) and perhaps the nVidia 6800 in the machine (drivers...or maybe something else).
Anyway, now that 10.3.6 is out (which claims updated drivers) and I've installed it on the 250 Gig system drive, does anyone know if I can now move that over to the 2.5Ghz/6800 g5 with workable results?
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: 33-37-22.350N / 111-54-37.920W
Status:
Offline
|
|
If you have OS X .3.5 and the nvidia drivers already loaded on it. yes.
|
Mac Pro 3.0, ATI 5770 1GB VRAM, 10GB, 2xVelociraptor boot RAID, 4.5TB RAID0 storage, 30" & 20" Apple displays.
2 x Macbook Pro's 17" 3.06 4 GB RAM, 256GB Solid State drives
iMac 17" Core Duo 1GB RAM, & 2 iPhones 8GB, and a Nano in a pear tree!
Apple user since 1981
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Senior User
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Los Angeles
Status:
Offline
|
|
Thanks for the quick response. When I had 10.3.5 on the hard drive, I don't believe the nVidia 6800 driver was there. I guess I'm trying to figure out how to get those drivers and install them...unless they are already included with 10.3.6, since I just updated to that one.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 2001
Status:
Offline
|
|
Originally posted by k2director:
Thanks for the quick response. When I had 10.3.5 on the hard drive, I don't believe the nVidia 6800 driver was there. I guess I'm trying to figure out how to get those drivers and install them...unless they are already included with 10.3.6, since I just updated to that one.
The drivers should be in 10.3.6.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Professional Poster
Join Date: Feb 2000
Location: Nashville, TN
Status:
Offline
|
|
and you're lucky enough to go from a DP2 to a DP2.5 in a year... lucky man!
|
Don't try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2004
Status:
Offline
|
|
yeah your lucky so now you have a 2.5 what happens to the 2.0? and yes im excepting donations
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: May 2001
Location: Ca
Status:
Offline
|
|
What are you doing with the 2.0GHZ.
Hope all is well.
real
|
With some loud music + a friend to chat nearby you can get alot done. - but jezz, I'd avoid it if I had the choice---- If only real people came with Alpha Channels.......:)
AIM:xflaer
deinterlaced.com
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mac Elite
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Edmonton, AB
Status:
Offline
|
|
why don't you just install both drives and boot from the one with the nvidia drivers.
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 
|
|
|
Forum Rules
|
|
|
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
|
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Top