on 30/06/04 20:49, Gregory Cortelyou at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I hope this is not OT since it is more of an OS issue than hardware (maybe) > but I need some help. I have had serious problems on my Pismo since > installing 10.3 when it came out. I actually got it working finally after a > total wipe of my drive and all was fine until I upgraded to 10.3.4 when I > could not boot at all. That's a long, sad story and I am not going to tell > it. I ended up back at 10.2.8 and all was great. But I really missed Panther > so I tried and it did install but some "pre-binding" did not get done > apparently as I cannot use several Apple apps at all including mail and > itunes. Also I have no sound in the finder. Sound works in some other apps. > Disk Utility run via the Panther CD now shows several "orphaned siblings" > and other directory problems that it cannot fix. I ran Disk Warrior and now > Disk Utility stops quick saying it cannot continue as "hash table full". > There is no info on hash tables on the Apple support site. The computer > runs, enough apps work to make it usable, but I am wanting it to be as it > should be. I have often suspected that my RAM is of a brand not compatible > with 10.3 and wonder if changing it would help. I have 2 sticks totalling > 512 MB. Or maybe the hard drive is just not able to keep itself in proper > order? Anybody got any advice?
FYI, I've been running 10.3.4 on my Pismo, also with 512MB of RAM without any problem. Since you did re-install a few times, I'm guessing that your valuable data has, hopefully, already been backed up on another disk or partition (here a good reason to partition a disk before installing OS X...). It sounds as if your hard disk has serious problems. Try erasing the partition in Disk Utility, from the Panther installation CD. If you can, it would be even better to reformat the entire disk. Then, install 10.3. Try to reboot. If you can boot, run Disk Utility from the 10.3 installation and repair permissions on the OS X disk/partition. Then, go to Software Update and get the 10.3.4 updater. Install it and see if it works. I'm really suspecting that your hard drive is causing those problems. What hard disk do you have, BTW? -Laurent. -- ============================================================================ Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelin <http://nemesys.dyndns.org> Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] bytesexual /bi:t`sek'shu-*l/ adj.: [rare] Said of hardware, denotes willingness to compute or pass data in either big-endian or little-endian format (depending, presumably, on a mode bit somewhere). See also NUXI problem. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
