On May 31, 2004, at 2:44 AM, Thomas Baker wrote:
Many hours into this fiasco, OS-X finally installed. Here's what the
problem turned out to be: OS-X didn't like one of the computer's three
512-meg memory chips. Although OS 9 has always been perfectly happy with it
(for two years), X wouldn't run if that chip was in there. Every time I put
it back into a slot, OS -X had another "kernel panic."
Applications and the system, itself, never crashed when using OS 9? Just because the system started, that doesn't mean out of spec RAM never caused you problems.
So, there's $120 more that X is going to cost me, if I want to use it.
Virtually all RAM sold by reputable suppliers comes with a lifetime warranty. Send it back for a replacement.
Neither my HP Laserjet 5 MP nor my Epson Stylus 1280
will print in X or its Classic mode. Eudora won't retrieve mail. I don't
know what else won't work yet, but everything I tried seemed to fail.
Assuming you're not trying to use an add-in serial port to connect to your printers, they should work. Do you have the latest software? It took about 30 seconds, each, to find these:
<http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp? pnameOID=15013&locale=en_US&taskId=135&prodSeriesId=25481&prodTypeId=189 72&swEnvOID=219>
<http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/support/supDetail.jsp? BV_UseBVCookie=yes&oid=14387&prodoid=176023&infoType=Downloads&platform= Macintosh>
Then I decided to install my new iLife suite, but the computer told me that
10.2 isn't good enough, I've got to upgrade to 10.2.7. So, I went to
Apple's website and tried to download the updater, but it's gigantic--100
megs--and with my dialup connection it would take ages to download. So, I
can't use iLife either.
A dialup connection wasn't a limitation when upgrading from 9.1 to 9.2, then 9.2.1 and 9.2.2? Many Apple retailers will let you burn a CD of the system updates in the store. The closest Apple Store to you is (mysteriously) in Tucson, but there are several independent stores in the Albuquerque area.
I have found this OS-X to be just one giant, expensive pain in the neck.
Frankly, you'd have saved yourself a great deal of time and money if you'd have gone directly to 10.3 and done a bit of studying, beforehand, to be aware of potential problems. (You do a flight check before going up in your plane, don't you? Why wouldn't you do one with your computer?) There are lots of sources available to you---xlr8yourmac.com, macfixit.com, macintouch.com, and so on.
Everybody talks about how much trouble Windows is, but I would ask this: do
Windows installers have to rip the entire insides out of their computers
just to install an OS? I seriously doubt it.
Only a tiny percentage of Windows users ever upgrade their operating systems. They just buy a new machine and use whatever comes installed. And, then they buy another one. Bad RAM and components no longer supported by their vendors are at least as much a problem for the brave souls who do upgrade, and their machines aren't an easy-pull handle to open up and work on.
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