From: Phillip Meza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 22:02:21 -0700 (MST)
hello listers, Been awhile... I having alot of trouble maintaining "Panther" 10.3.3
"Alive and well" I've installed the OS about 4 times in the last few weeks and I'm
having some strange problems, which appear to be "Bad Memory" issues but I can't
confirm this. So I'm asking you, anyone that has develed into the OS with success
to enlighten me please.
I've tried searching for a "Forum" for answers to Bad Memory issues but I'm not
getting
anywhere, the best of them, I think would be the Xpostfacto/Ryan Rempel, but I
can't find
anyone with the same kind of trouble.
examples... "Mail" wont delete, ITunes will not "import" tracks (specific error
message...
"-50") no freezes, just weird stuff!! Can anyone enlighten me?
I will give anyone "specifics" if they need them "offlist" if you'd prefer.
Thank's Phil
Phil, I'm going to go out on a limb a bit. I'd say if you've ran the various versions of OS 10.2 including 10.2.8 on your machine successfully then your RAM is likely ok. Most if not all the weak and bad RAM should already have been weeded out by now or you would already have had RAM issues to deal with.
I installed Panther early as soon as it was possible on my Umax machine. I had all sorts of problems. Mail was one of the apps that didn't work correctly for me. Tried lots of fixes but things were never quite right. Tried new fresh installs and different issues with different installs and 10.3.2 introduced a new one disk Utilities crashed at startup which meant I couldn't even open .dmg files to install since Panther combines Disk copy and Utilities.
Here's how I got things to work for me. Fresh install of Panther . Run Disk Warrior 2.1 from within OS 9.x or Disk Warrrior 3.0 or 3.1 by booting from the CD using XPFacto 3.0a 13 plus (version 16 is current) or i run from my Jaguar disk. Then use Norton's Speed disk to defrag the drive. Be sure to use a version that is current enough. i use the System works 3 in OS 9.x . I've found from the beginning of OSX installs that it leaves the hard drive way fragmented in a major way and Panthers problems are due to this fragmentation. It is true that UNIX and thus OSX aren't as affected by fragmentation as OS 9 and older but only true once you have a good non fragmented install. Once that is done use the 10.3.3 combo update and skip the faulty 10.3.2 update and don't use software update software for Mac OS updates. Seems to work fine for non OS installs. Best of luck hope this helps. Will S
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