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My Leopard disc keeps ejecting on my PowerPC G5
I have a PowerPC G5 tower that I wish to upgrade. It's hardware specs are:
Dual Core 2.2 GHz PowerPC
8GB of RAM
The disc I am using is known to work on the following Macs with no issues:
Macbook 2007 Intel model
Imac G4 PowerPC
iBook G4
I have also tried another G5 with a single core 1.8 GHz PowerPC processor with 512MB of RAM with the same issues. It keeps ejecting the disc. I have tried multiple Leopard discs and the same issue keeps occuring. I know the DVD drives on these two G5's work as I can put in a Tiger installation DVD and it will work and regular CD's and DVDs work.
This is what I've tried thus far:
Booting into Safe Mode
Cleaned discs
Tried multiple discs
Targeted G5 machine but install usually fails (the only time I got target mode to work was when I pointed the G5 to my Intel Macbook but then it would only install the HDD as an intel partition).
I'm not sure what else to try here. Please help!
Dual Core 2.2 GHz PowerPC
8GB of RAM
The disc I am using is known to work on the following Macs with no issues:
Macbook 2007 Intel model
Imac G4 PowerPC
iBook G4
I have also tried another G5 with a single core 1.8 GHz PowerPC processor with 512MB of RAM with the same issues. It keeps ejecting the disc. I have tried multiple Leopard discs and the same issue keeps occuring. I know the DVD drives on these two G5's work as I can put in a Tiger installation DVD and it will work and regular CD's and DVDs work.
This is what I've tried thus far:
Booting into Safe Mode
Cleaned discs
Tried multiple discs
Targeted G5 machine but install usually fails (the only time I got target mode to work was when I pointed the G5 to my Intel Macbook but then it would only install the HDD as an intel partition).
I'm not sure what else to try here. Please help!
You can't install Mac OSX (intel) on a Power PC Mac. It requires an intel processor, not the Motorola PowerPC processor. Go to an earlier Mac OS. I think Tiger is last used on PowerPC Macs.
Not so. Leopard is the last PPC release.
Where did the disk come from? Is it an OEM disk or a full retail install disk?
You could also try zapping the PRAM. That sometimes solves mysterious DVD problems.
You could also try zapping the PRAM. That sometimes solves mysterious DVD problems.
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To be honest I'm not sure of the exact origin of the disc, I do know it is licensed under our company. It is a universal Leopard disc as I can get it to work on other PowerPC machines.
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I just tried to reset the PRAM and it is still ejecting the Leopard disc.
I am out of ideas. Sorry.
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That worked, I cloned the install DVD from my intel Macbook onto an external firewire drive and was able to install Leopard just fine, thanks!