79 available systems for MorphOS 3.5

[mindprober]

Sigh. Looks like the dirt-cheap 2.3GHz Dual Core G5 I just acquired is not supported. Oh well. Maybe it will be in the future. So many systems are now supported that weren't before. There's hope.

Power Macintosh G5



NVIDIA cards are not supported by MorphOS and would need to be replaced with a suitable Radeon card instead. Special Mac versions of Radeon cards can be used, or the firmware of PC cards can be re-flushed to work with Mac instead.

MorphOS will currently use a maximum of 1GB of memory on these G5 machines, even if more is installed in the machine.

DP = Dual Processors (MorphOS only supports using one CPU though)


Here is a list of supported Power Macintosh G5 machines, oldest models first, then ascending in performance:
   
68. Power Macintosh G5 1.8 DP (PCI), PowerMac7,3, NVIDIA card
69. Power Macintosh G5 2.0 DP (PCI-X 2), PowerMac7,3, NVIDIA card
70. Power Macintosh G5 2.5 DP (PCI-X), PowerMac7,3
71. Power Macintosh G5 2.0 DP (PCI), PowerMac7,3
72. Power Macintosh G5 2.3 DP (PCI-X), PowerMac7,3
73. Power Macintosh G5 2.7 DP (PCI-X), PowerMac7,3


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[mindprober]

Yes, that is the one and it does come with an Nvidia card.

I was curious if it was just the video card that makes it incompatible but it might be something else.

The Power Macintosh G5 2.3 DP (PCI-X) (the PowerMac7,3 2.3GHz machine) came with a Radeon 9600, so I think it's something else than PowerMac7,3 and if so, a new GFX card wouldn't help...

It's probably a Power Macintosh G5 Dual Core (2.3) (PowerMac11,2 with 970MP CPU).