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Posted by: ~tl on 2007-12-01 08:37:27
Yeah, the early iMac shipped with a special version of 8.1 which included USB support IIRC.
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Posted by: bluekatt on 2007-12-01 09:10:40
it had an special usb enbabler 8.5 eliminated the need for the enabler
rev b came with 8.5 installed it had a faster video chip and 6 mb vram instead of 2
and thats all that was differnt about rev b
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Posted by: bamdad on 2007-12-01 10:21:41
stupid question, i presume, but how can i tell if mine is rev. a or b?
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Posted by: Dan 7.1 on 2007-12-01 10:40:49
whats the VGA card? under the Apple System Profiler if its labeled as a Rage IIc with 2MB VRAM then its rev-a, if its a Rage Pro with 6MB its revb.
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Posted by: ~tl on 2007-12-01 10:44:36
whats the VGA card? under the Apple System Profiler if its labeled as a Rage IIc with 2MB VRAM then its rev-a, if its a Rage Pro with 6MB its revb. You shouldn't trust the VRAM amount to tell the difference, since a 4MB upgrade card was sold for the rev. A iMacs (to take them to 6MB). Though, I'd be willing to bet the majority of machines just have 2MB.
However, as you also said, the rev. A has a Rage IIc and the rev. B-D have a Rage Pro. So that's the easiest way to tell.
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Posted by: Dan 7.1 on 2007-12-01 11:02:19
ah really? well there you go. although a Rage IIc with 6MB seems like kind of a waste 😛
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Posted by: bluekatt on 2007-12-01 11:42:44
stupid question, i presume, but how can i tell if mine is rev. a or b? go to system profiler and look at the video card ( not v ram )
if its a rage pro you have a rev b if it a rage II lc its a rev A
other then that the two ar eidential the rage pros is just a slightly better video card with more on board ram
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Posted by: bamdad on 2007-12-01 11:55:34
thanks guys.
i took the whole machine apart, it has 6 mbytes of vram and it has a rage pro. what still surprises me is that it boots 8.1 nicely (the only problem being that in 8.1 i cannot adjust the screen size, position etc. in monitors and sound, but this is normal, i think, since the 8.1 system is universal and is not for imacs).
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Posted by: bluekatt on 2007-12-01 13:38:41
sounds like you have a retail os 8 .1 cd
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Posted by: bamdad on 2007-12-04 04:55:10
madmax: tried everything you wrote, nothing helped, although now i am starting to get the idea that it needs a new pram battery since it has never been replaced (since 2003!).. thanks for helping anyway. 😉
and to the others, i bought a series one macbook. pismos are hard to get around here.. but since it is not 68k or even a powermac, this is not the place to post about it. 🙂
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Posted by: bluekatt on 2007-12-04 05:09:40
but it runs mac os thats good enough ;p
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Posted by: bubbleman7546 on 2007-12-05 17:19:07
g4 tibooks have pcimia...
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Posted by: coius on 2007-12-05 18:30:42
not sure if you thought of this, but have you thought of an eMac? Try a 1.25 or 1.42GHz eMac? I have one. The only reason why it died was because I was extra-dumb and messed with the logic board on overclocking, and royally screwed it up. I am currently hoping to get another board that I have my eyes on. I will let you know if I get it!!!
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Posted by: bluekatt on 2007-12-05 20:59:37
g4 tibooks have pcimia... since when ?
my G4 400 mhz tibook did not have one
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Posted by: Patrickool93 on 2007-12-05 21:07:31
All TiBooks have PC card slots...
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Posted by: bluekatt on 2007-12-05 21:14:29
the 12 inch G4's do not
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Posted by: LCGuy on 2007-12-06 04:26:08
No, they don't, but if you had a TiBook 400, then it would've had one...TiBooks were only made with a 15.2" display, and I can confirm that they all definately had PC Card slots.
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Posted by: bamdad on 2007-12-06 13:31:26
not sure if you thought of this, but have you thought of an eMac? Try a 1.25 or 1.42GHz eMac? I have one. The only reason why it died was because I was extra-dumb and messed with the logic board on overclocking, and royally screwed it up. I am currently hoping to get another board that I have my eyes on. I will let you know if I get it!!! if this is a reply to me, then you bet, i would love one, but they are extremely rare (in my country). i saw somebody modding one into a homebuilt g5-looking case after the monitor stopped working. and it is sweeeeeet. even the original looks great.
so if i see one i will surely buy it, although i have only seen broken ones so far. could you give a link to a quality specs page? thanks in advance..
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Posted by: bluekatt on 2007-12-06 14:25:37
why not a G4 mini instead ? they are literally headless emacs
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Posted by: bamdad on 2007-12-06 14:52:49
g4 mac mini? i thought the first ever mac minis had a g5 processor. 🙂 btw, i have (or will have, at least) a g4 quicksilver but that is way slower than the emac.
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