Thanks Jeremy, Jerry, Tomas, and Will for the suggestions. I will try eliminating one RAM chip at a time and seeing what happens. There is a 128MB in the lower slot and 256 in the upper slot.
I did not have any peripheral devices connected at the time of the OS installation. I did partition the drive, putting Jaguar on the first partition of 6GB and OS 9.2.2 on the second partition of 2 GB. After the first freeze, I switched the partitions around (first partition 2GB for OS 9.2.2 and second partition 6GB for 10.2) but it made no difference. The RAM chips were installed 1-1/2 years ago and after the Jaguar installation failure I had no problem installing OS 10.1 from the CD and then updating to 10.1.5. Herb Goodfriend p. s. It will be a while before I can check the RAM. I was giving the computer to friends and setting it up for them at their house. They live 400 miles away and it will be a few months until my next visit. -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
