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Posted by: Macdrone on 2012-12-02 16:19:03
Ok went and picked up the two MDDs. As always the add was not correct. No such thing as a 1.5. So one was a 1.25 single and a 1.0 single. He threw in 2 ADC 17 inch Studio Displays, also came with mice. So it was time to resurrect my 1.25 dual. Took the motherboard/CPU out of the 1.0 because it had the 133 system bus speed. Success 1.25 dual with 2 gigs of ram. Just need to decide what OS I want. So the 1.25 single is a 1 gig of ram, with 80 gig HD. If anyone thinks they need it let me know. I try and help anyone with the need or want as much as I can.
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Posted by: uniserver on 2012-12-02 16:22:21
i would do leopard, with dual booting 9.22 that is how my 1.25 Dual MDD is set up.
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Posted by: Macdrone on 2012-12-02 19:56:34
I read that the only the first run MDDs could boot 9. Ill try it but the motherboards are both 167 bus, which says shouldn't natively boot 9.
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Posted by: mcdermd on 2012-12-02 21:06:24
Those should be the FW800 models then. OS X only.
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Posted by: Unknown_K on 2012-12-03 00:50:29
The original run of MDD models had 133 FSB (867mhz model only) and 166 for the others.
The easy way to tell a OS 9 booting MDD from a non booting one is the booting board has a slot for the original airport cards, second revision has airport extreme slot.
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Posted by: Macdrone on 2012-12-03 03:26:49
No is 9 boot here. I can run classic but no boot.
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Posted by: gobabushka on 2012-12-03 06:54:23
Is the ram DDR or SDRAM? If it's DDR then it's a FW800 and no dice on straight boot into 9.2.2
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Posted by: Macdrone on 2012-12-03 07:39:30
Yessir ddr
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Posted by: waynestewart on 2012-12-03 10:16:49
There's no such thing as a MDD that doesn't use DDR RAM
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Posted by: Macdrone on 2012-12-03 10:47:34
Excuse me pc2700 167 MHz bus versions. These machines will not boot 9.2.
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Posted by: MinerAl on 2012-12-03 15:20:33
I have a MDD FW400 single 1.25GHz processor. It was actually the last G4 desktop. Apple sold it as a low end alternative to their new G5s. It does boot into 9.2.2, but only 9.2.2. I had a 9.2.1 install disk from back in the day and it would not boot from it. I downloaded and then neutered the 9.2.2 netboot image from Apple, and it boots to that and 10.2.8, and 10.5.8 on a different partition. Very handy/speedy for talking to my Ether/AppleTalk 68ks.
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Posted by: waynestewart on 2012-12-03 17:53:58
Lots of MDDs with the 167 mhz bus will boot OS 9 but not all the 133 mhz bus MDDs will. Basically, if it has built-in FW800 then it won't boot OS 9
I bought a new dual 1 ghz MDD with the 167 mhz bus in 2002 and mostly ran OS9 for lot of apps as most of what I had wouldn't run in OSX and some wouldn't run in Classic.
Excuse me pc2700 167 MHz bus versions. These machines will not boot 9.2. |
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