To date I have converted an ATI Rage Pro, a Radeon 7500, a GeForce 2 MX and a GeForce 4 MX, but I have yet to convert a Radeon 9000 Pro. All of them have worked, except to say that both Nvidia cards did not display an image until they almost reached the desktop on their first boot, but subsequent boots already display an image from the beginning. These two graphics cards, under OSX although they boot by default with the compatible resolution, offer all resolutions, even if they are not compatible. Under OS9 they offer the compatible resolution and 1920 x 1080. The ATI cards offer all the resolutions supported by the monitor on both systems.

welcome

not a newton, but you need a PowerBook Duo 2300c runs mac os 9

Welcome to Mac OS 9 Lives! The iBook G4 sure is a nice machine. Hope you get it running

Hi,

Greetings from Reutlingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany!

I have recently bought an iBook G4 that I plan to inflict Mac OS 9 upon.
I've already downloaded and burnt the "OS 9.2.2 for Unsupported Macs" CD.

No other Macs, sorry! But I have an eMate 300 and a MessagePad 2100, though.

I waste my time tinkering with odd old computers, especially PDAs.

Hi folks,

So I have bought an iBook G4 from ebay. It came with OS X 10.5 "Leopard".
I would like it to optionally boot MacOS 9.2.2. I have the install disk from this site and I am able to boot it.

So far, so good. But I didn't install anything yet.

My question:
* Do I need a separate partition for MacOS 9, or can I share a  partition with Mac OS X?
* If I need a dedicated partition for OS 9, what would be the way of least hassle to do so? I have iPartition, but don't know if it can shrink the OS X partiton?

Thanks in advance,

Alexander

All the download info is available on the main site as well as direct download links for Mac OS 9. I'm working on making it more obvious where everything is.

https://macos9lives.com/downloads

totally understandable that you can not go into mass production and then make a loss with it.

and of course i´ve missed that there is no ADC connectors you can buy, which is basically why you decided to do it internally (or at all)

i am a lucky owner of an ADC to VGA adapter but i needed months to finally find one at an affordable price after i lost my old one. without it i could not have switched from 3 to 2 monitors and free a PCI slot by doing so.

Just to follow up .. I played with the bless command, but was not successful using it to boot os 9.

The only way I could find to do it is through OF when restarting from X. Restarting from 9 works fine obv.

@indibil (and er'body else interested).

Thank you for your kind comments and for taking the time to actually read… and re-read the post. As they say, “the devil is in the details”.

Something was bothering me about the four-panel numeric results last night. The result averages for the GPU Temps, between the old and the new thermal pad didn’t quite look right. The Exhaust Air averages looked correct as they represented a +7.15˚F / +3.97˚C averaged temperature increases.

I should have excluded the bottom GPU 2 Minute noted temps before averaging. Thus, the corrected four-panel image below, with the new (more accurate) averages inside the red rectangle.

                 

And now back to air speed and temperature fluctuations.

Check the black outlined numbers from the Exhaust Air Temp Duct. 10 minutes = 119.5 / 48.61. Then the drop @15 minutes, a slight return rise @20 minutes and then… temperature drops from there @25 minutes and @30 minutes. Safe to assume that the fan speed had ramped up @15 minutes (when I failed to restart the anemometer on time for readings).

And funny that the GPU temps between the old and new are not that much different - AND that heat gains are greater at the exhaust… with the new thermal pad!

Again, perhaps better to have the GPU and the new pad expelling more heat to the exhaust - than not expelling that heat from the GPU - because that can certainly lead to the demise of the GPU.

(Of course, and IF you’ve fresh heatsink paste on your CPU.)

Die mini, DIE!

Again thanks indibil. It might be another day or two before the copper heatsink finally gets a test. (If the good ol’ #5B Mac mini can withstand yet another surgery.)

And @DieHard… go ahead and gloat over the possibly reduced “heat signature” of the newer Mac minis. I am prepared to whine incessantly about this utterly heinous possibility.🤪

Cheers y’all!

P.S. @diehard, changing the subject, do you happen to have a link to that OS9 image compatible with the 1GHz iMac G4? I haven't been able to find it.

I am kinda out of the "file" loop at this point, if you can't get any solutions from the powers that be, I'll search what I have on my backups