Installing windows xp on ibook g4

I ran the disk diagnostics and it stated that evertything was fine, so I assumed it was a software issue. I believe they modify the installer so it only runs on one certain model. Same was as my iBook 1. I would suggest getting Tiger in the form or retail and see if you can get your money back on the tiger iBook install discs especially if you got it on eBay, and they said it would work on ALL iBook G4's as they might have presented it as misleading.

That's all i can say for now. Or the best thing to do, is to wait for The best I can do, is to send you a copy of mine which has the same Since mine came with The Major OS Stepping might be what is keeping you from doing the upgrade. I know they keep those things around. And then just put up with It's not a bad OS, and Tiger seems a bit cluttered. I know that And I am looking forward to getting it. Same goes for the Airport card.

It could be that your ram is going dead. This page, the entire Applefritter site, and all subsites of are copyright by Tom Owad unless otherwise noted.

With programs like Virtual PC, and Q, running on a PPC PowerPC -- referring to the Processer and motherboard that support it , the software must emulate a processor, the system that allows the processor to communicate with the virtual devices, as well as either provide a link from the software itself to devices like your display card, network card, modem, etc. Sometimes these devices must also be emulated regardless.

If you know anything about how processors are made and how they work, you already know that they are pretty complex devices.

For software to emulate one, it's, well The hardware is already natively supported, and much less needs to be emulated. That's why the new virtualization, multicore CPUs, and higher bandwidth memory is such a big deal right now. We're getting to the point where we'll have the ability to simply run multiple OSs on a single system at the same time , without having to emulate hardware, or create a seperate environment.

Avalon said:. Click to expand D3v1L80Y said:. Nobody reads stickies. Thank you all for the answers, I really appreciate it. I also have another question for you guys. Joined Oct 5, Messages Reaction score 0 Points Thank you everyone for all of your replies to my questions, I really appreciate it! However I have one more question to throw at you guys.

I reiterate I'm a total n00b with mac computers, so please bare with me on questions that would seem idiotic to all of you. How to run Windows on a Mac drivers , performance , software , advanced , drivers , performance , windows PC Add comments.

When you run it, it comes up with a menu, I selected new, and it asked what kind of machine I wanted to make: I chose Windows XP. Mike P says:. April 16, at am. April 17, at am. MikeW says:. April 22, at pm. June 12, at pm. June 13, at pm. September 14, at am. ReyhanAF says:. October 26, at am. Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply. Popular Topics advanced 18 audio 29 backup 11 beginners 11 dragon 25 drivers 15 DVD 22 email 25 gmail 18 google 35 hardware 16 internet 16 ipad 14 iphone 38 ipod 20 itunes 48 keynote 14 macbook 14 macintoshhowto 12 mail 16 merge 10 movies 32 mp3 12 music 34 OS-X 29 osx 12 pages 16 pdf 30 performance 16 phone 24 popular 14 presentations 10 print 10 printing 18 problems 20 productivity 22 publishing 11 review 12 shortcuts 12 software 18 speech recognition 23 ssd 10 sync 35 tips 10 video How to get an extra MB in dropbox.

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