On Dec 16, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Brother Eye wrote:
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
After all we've been through, anyone want to hazard a guess as to why
I can't upgrade to 10.4.1? It states my volume does not me the
necessary requirements, it has plenty of available space??? Sheeesh!
On Dec 16, 11:33 am, Bill Connelly billycarm...@verizon.net wrote:
On Dec 16, 2009, at 11:18
On Dec 16, 2009, at 11:47 AM, Brother Eye wrote:
After all we've been through, anyone want to hazard a guess as to why
I can't upgrade to 10.4.1? It states my volume does not me the
necessary requirements, it has plenty of available space??? Sheeesh!
Here's a bunch of guesses:
1) did you
On Dec 15, 2009, at 10:48 AM, Tyrus Manuel wrote:
I can give more specs if needed, but I wanted to get a sense of
whether anyone had this problem first.
When you're getting a kernel panic it's nice to know what the panic
text says. Since this is repeatable, use Cmd-v keyboard keys at
On Dec 15, 2009, at 9:48 AM, Tyrus Manuel wrote:
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.
That's very
Specs below as requested, I will also try the cmd+v and see if that
gives me anything generally all it does is make the computer
unbootable unless I do a fresh install of 10.3:
Hardware:
Hardware Overview:
Machine Model:Power Mac G4 (AGP graphics)
CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (2.9)
On Dec 15, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Brother Eye wrote:
Specs below as requested, I will also try the cmd+v and see if that
gives me anything generally all it does is make the computer
unbootable unless I do a fresh install of 10.3:
Check your memory. 10.4 is pickier than 10.3. Download and install
On Dec 15, 2009, at 12:58 PM, Brother Eye wrote:
I will also try the cmd+v and see if that
gives me anything generally all it does is make the computer
unbootable unless I do a fresh install of 10.3:
There is no way that Cmd-v should make your computer unbootable.
It sounds like you have some
--- On Tue, 12/15/09, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu 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
Brother Eye wrote:
Specs below as requested, I will also try the cmd+v and see if that
gives me anything generally all it does is make the computer
unbootable unless I do a fresh install of 10.3:
PCI/AGP Cards:
ADPT,1686806-04:
Name: ADPT,2930CU
Type: scsi
Bus:
I had EXACTLY the same problem in my BW, I also thought it was the
SCSI card, but when I removed it, the same problem, I was stuck with
10.3, when I attempted to install Tiger, i only got Kernel Panics in
the Installer (when it was something like 30% ), finally I removed the
last RAM stick I
PCI/AGP Cards:
ADPT,1686806-04:
Name: ADPT,2930CU
Type: scsi
Bus: PCI
Slot: SLOT-D
Vendor ID: 0x9004
Device ID: 0x5078
Subsystem Vendor ID: 0x9004
Subsystem ID: 0x7850
Revision ID: 0x0003
There are a couple of large threads on the Apple Discussion Boards
On Dec 15, 2009, at 12:48 PM, John Niven wrote:
--- On Tue, 12/15/09, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu
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
On Dec 15, 2009, at 12:59 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Dec 15, 2009, at 12:48 PM, John Niven wrote:
--- On Tue, 12/15/09, Bruce Johnson john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu
wrote:
system to 10.4; it turned out to be the flaky external dvd
drive I was
using to install it.
Doesn't the
Not the CMD-V, but whenever I try to boot in 10.4 I generally have to
reinstall 10.3, whatever happens seems to corrupt both installations?
I am learning about troubleshooting Macs, so I am not 100% sure but
this seems to be the behavior. I will try again and report any
findings.
Thanks.
On Dec
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
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
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