On Jul 14, 2009, at 11:45 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
> > > On Jul 13, 2009, at 6:48 PM, nburman wrote: > >> All thats missing at the mo (as it installs Jag) >> is the floppy drive, A/V card, > > If that's the 'Wings' card, put it back in, a lot of Beiges won't boot > without that card present. One of the things you're finding out is > that there was some weird inherent variation across the beige line not > accounted for by ROM revision numbers and such. Some are simply > resistant to OS X, Some are resistant to upgrading, etc. There's a lot > of weird issues. Mine, I could not, for the life of me upgrade past > 10.2. > > A friend had one that you simply could not install OS X on at all. The > fault could not be traced to any single part of the computer, as they > all worked when swapped out for different ones, it was that unique > combination of motherboard, power supply video card, ram ,etc. I know > because a friend of that friend had an Apple shop, and a ready supply > of parts to swap in; he took this as a challenege, never did find out > why the computer just wouldn't load OS X. > > The only thing he never swapped out was the case. would using a CCC clone work? do the upgrade work on another G4? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
