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Flenix

Flenix

Member Since 30 Apr 2012
Offline Last Active May 30 2012 10:56 AM
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2004 PowerMac G5 - Folder and ? Icon

26 May 2012 - 03:05 PM

Hey guys,

So, I got this case off ebay for £40, planning to build a hackintosh inside it. When it got here, however, it was fully kitted with the logic board and everything else, except the hard drive.

Naturally, first thing I did was plugged it in and fired it up. I just got an icon on the screen, a folder with a flashing ? and the Finder smiley icon. Googling around told me this means it can't find anything to boot from.

My next step was to try putting in a blank hard drive - no change, and then a hard drive with Snow Leopard* installed - still no change
* I know snow leopard doesn't run on PPC. I was just seeing if it'd try and do anything.

Its also worth noting that holding keys at startup doesn't do anything (ie it wont open disk manager etc - not sure if it needs an OS to do that maybe?) - If I hold click the drive DOES open.


So, anyone know what else I can try? I'd love to get this thing up and running if I can!

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