Wonderful. It is almost always s reassuring that a prosaic cause such as memory is at fault. It was an easy fix (QED); maybe hours to fathom it and minutes to correct it.
There are few quiet intimate pleasures in life that bring such smiles and happy thoughts as seeing one's spouse on the next pillow and seeing that big fat apple when booting successfully. Mel. --- On Wed, 9/2/09, Jonas Ulrich <[email protected]> wrote: From: Jonas Ulrich <[email protected]> Subject: Re: powermac g4 with 1.8GHZ sonnet won't install osx To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 10:21 AM SOLVED. I googled the error message that AHT came up with and everyone said that you will get that message if you have a sonnet installed. The reason that it won't install, is because it has either bad or incompatible memory. I pulled all but 2 512mB chips and it installed perfectly. I am writing this e-mail on it now. Thanks!!! -Jonas On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Bruce Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: On Sep 1, 2009, at 7:37 PM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: > I was given a non working powermac g4 with a sonnet 1.8GHZ upgrade > in it. > The problem is that it won't install any os. With leopard it just > says that > the install failed. "could not validated the basesystem package." I > have > tried replacing the optical drive, using a different installer to no > avail. > When i ran the apple hardware test it said that there was a problem > with the > mother board. Could the result be affected by the sonnet chip? I don't necessarily think so. You don't have the original CPU by any chance? > I want to > make sure that is the problem before I buy a motherboard. > Thanks!!!!!!! Replacing the Sonnet would be the only real way to test, I'd think. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
