Hello Oh Great Group Think;-)
On a slightly more serious note, I hope all of you and your families are well during this holiday season and for the rest of the year.
So, to the task at hand. Having received 10.3 as a a present, I have successfully installed it on a B&W with a 450MHz G4 CPU and a Radeon 7000 flashed from PC to Mac. Very slick. Updating was a bit dicey. Seemed like everybody's cousins, aunts and uncles were trying to download the combo 10.3.7 updater so I had to do it one stage at a time. The disc is actually 10.3.2. But it all went well and the B&W seems quicker than ever. All praise be to Apple;-)
OK, so now the frustrating part. I also have an AGO running at 400MHz currently using 10.2.8 which I am happy with but there many new apps and utilities that require 10.3, (Adobe Reader 7, Stuffit 9, etc.) So, I start the installation process. Now ,I had two Hard Drives in this and being cautious thought I should try installing the new OS on the other HD just in case. So, I do that things start strange ad get weirder. To begin with in the installer I see two tool bars, the usual one at the top and then a duplicate at the bottom of the page separated from the rest of the page by a black stripe. Oh, previous to that when you see the rotating clock hash marks, there are some peculiar artifacts on screen towards the bottom in approximately a straight line. Other than that the installation goes smoothly. But when the computer restarts there is just a black screen. The screen is on, there is just nothing on it.
So, my first thought is that it might be a "master/slave" issue with the HDs. I did not want to but I decide to install on the master drive. Id choose to archive the olds system and install 10.3. The visual oddities are the same, as are the results; just a black screen. Ok, so I've heard that sometimes even the archive method can cause problems and I think I better try a clean install. So, I move all of my important stuff over to the other hard drive and try a clean install of 10.3. And, yep, you guessed it, same thing happens.
At his point I am not happy:-( But, after a little thought I try looking for video drivers. The card I'm using is a Nvidia GeForce2 MX. Never gave me problems before but you never know. So, I go to the Nvidia sight and do not see any drivers for Mac. At Apple I see a download both for the GeForce 2 MX and for the Nvidia driver update 3. I get both but neither will install. Instead I get a message saying, "This application will not work on this machine." I tried the installations in both 10.2.8 and from booting into 9.2.2. Same message. Which I take to mean that my machine does not need them.
So, here I am asking for help.
Anand
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