At 7:16 PM -0800 12/6/2008, Dana Collins wrote: >Digital Audio G4 (OWC Mercury 1.5GHz CPU, 1.5 Gig RAM, Pioneer 112 >SuperDrive, etc.). > >Regardless of hard drive, the unit refuses to boot up the retail >Install DVD of Leopard. I get the initial grey screen/silver Apple >with rotating gear - 30 seconds in (with optical drive whirring away), >I can hear the HD time out and spin down; soon thereafter the silver >screen and rotating gear freeze
Can you boot from any HD that already has OS X on it, internal or external? IOW, is this problem limited to just booting from the DVD or ? Clean the DVD drive. Disconnect the HD. Zap the PRAM. Boot from the DVD. If you cannot boot from the DVD with the HD disconnected, then something else is wrong. Perhaps a processor or memory issue... >I took one 40 Gig HD, slapped it into a QuickSilver I have with a >slower Sonnet CPU (1 GHz G4), and it boots up via the Install DVD >fine. Why do you need to boot from the DVD at all? Just slap a clone of your working system in... - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
