Everyone, I am happy to report that my PowerMac G4 is now running smoothly at 10.4. I think the influx of suggestions helped me get out of my tunnel vision view of the problem. I ran the CMD+V command as suggested and found both a warning about the SCSI and then a long IO ATA message and the machine never progressed from there. So I first started with the easiest solution and pulled the SCSI and tried again. The SCSI warning was gone of course, but the IO message remained. From there I decided to tackle the ATA issue and as Carmonnes and others suggested, I removed the smaller OG HDD that was installed and left only the large HDD with Tiger installed in place. Once I started back up everything ran fine, Tiger booted and loaded and now the system actually runs much faster than it did when I was on Panther. At some point I will probably add in a larger HDD I have but keep the HDD order the same and see if that causes any issues. Thanks again to everyone for your input, this is truly what the internet is really all about!
Happy Holidays, Ty On Dec 15, 6:41 pm, Stewie de Young <[email protected]> wrote: > John Carmonnes approach is exactly what I do to troubleshoot any Mac. > Remove all variables down to a bare bones system. > Disconnect any PCI cards , hard drives except one for the boot drive, all ram > sticks except for one and any other USB hub etc. > Use an Apple keyboard and boot from the hard drive then see is you have any > problems. > I'd wipe the hard drive and then see about installing Tiger straight onto it. > Then slowly bring back all the things you disconnected to start with and test > your system at each point. > > Stewie > > From: [email protected] > Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:48:54 -0500 > Subject: Power MacG4-AGP, Radeon 9000 video card can't upgrade to Tiger > To: [email protected] > > I have the above Mac (Power MacG4-AGP) and I have been able to reach 10.3.9 > upgrade with only occasional prohibitory signs on startup, but every > installation of Tiger I have tried gives me the prohibitory on each boot. One > post here led me to think it might be a problem with the Radeon card, I > upgraded the firmware and tried again with no luck. I have followed every tip > or hint from Apple's support forums, clearing NRAM etc. Has anyone here had a > similar issue? I can give more specs if needed, but I wanted to get a sense > of whether anyone had this problem first. > > Thanks for any help. > > -- > > 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 athttp://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtmland our netiquette > guide is athttp://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list > > _________________________________________________________________ > Use Messenger in your Hotmail inbox Find out > howhttp://windowslive.ninemsn.com.au/hotmail/article/823454/web-im-for-h... -- 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
