---- Original Message ---- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: An interesting problem Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2005 11:51:21 +0800
>Hi guys, > >I have an interesting problem. I have a 500mhz G3 Powerbook that I >have been running OS 10.3.x on for several months without any >problems. All of a sudden it stopped booting up. The screen would >turn from grey to blue and then back to grey and stop booting up at >that point. I booted from a OS 10.3.x install disk and did a disk >repair and permissions, etc... with no effect. Eventually, I had to >erase the whole hard drive and start all over again. I loaded system > >9.2.2 and then tried to load system 10.2 but every time I tried to >boot from the OS 10 install disk the powerbook would freak out and >start creating lines and shapes on the LCD screen. I updated the >firmware and updates to system 9.2.2 and tried again, with no >success. I also tried the system 10.3.x install disk and the same >thing happened. > >So right now I have a computer that refuses to run on anything but >system 9! :-( What happened to all of a sudden cause this? help! Might be RAM. Bad RAM can give very odd symptoms. It reminds me of when I got my first Mac, a 6100/66, and it could only run 68k applications. It too displayed some very disturbing graphics. It's Apple brand ram was cactus. The guy who sold it to me eventually found it after he had blamed my own usage style. He threw in an extra 32mb while sporting red cheeks. Good luck Paul
