Everyone, Thank you so much for your advice and suggestions. I will start working through all of them and update this thread as applicable. I have recently replaced the old DVD drive and I thought that might help but not yet. I will focus on the SCSI and the RAM since those are things I haven't dealt with and were upgraded before I got the system.
Again thank you. Ty On Dec 15, 3:59 pm, Bruce Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 15, 2009, at 12:48 PM, John Niven wrote: > > > --- On Tue, 12/15/09, Bruce Johnson <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> system to 10.4; it turned out to be the flaky external dvd > >> drive I was > >> using to install it. > > > Doesn't the install disk do a media check first? I know you can > > bypass that but I always thought that was a good idea. then you know > > the disk and drive are OK before you start. > > It was passing the check. It was a weird issue with the external FW > enclosure that for some reason wasn't showing up on the check. I ended > up installing the DVD drive internally and it worked. > > -- > Bruce Johnson > > "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD -- 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
