On 18/5/06 3:03 PM, "KEVIN Lock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have just loaded operating systems onto 10 G3/G4s (donated by The > West Australian) for Castlereagh School without any real problems, > but the last G4 is holding out on me. Each time I attempt to > install OS 10.2 I get a different problem popping up. Sometimes I > get as far as installing and the installation stalls after 15-20 > minutes; sometimes I cannot even find a destination disk. > > I have partitioned the drive into one partition, checked out the RAM > (plenty of RAM), checked the Pram battery and the pram power-on > button, zapped the pram...even changed hard drives with the same > results. I have also changed the cable to the HD. > I have used three different installation disk sets. > > Time to give up or have I missed something here? Nice machine, pity > to dump it. > > TIA > > Kev :-[ > Hi Kevin Something else you could try (maybe as a last ditch effort) is to boot the "troublesome" G4 into Firewire Target Mode (restart, hold down the T key with a Firewire cable plugged in). Once you see the little Firewire symbol bouncing around the screen, plug the other end of the Firewire cable into one of the other working G4 towers. (with the second G4 running). Then load the OS as you would normally (eg it will reboot off the CD for you to install the OS), but instead of choosing the Hard Drive that already has it, choose the "troublesome" G4's Hard Drive and see if that works. All going well it should run through the installer. If you find it still doesn't work, then I'm pretty sure that would be sign that there is some form of hardware issue on the "troublesome" G4. I've done that for a couple of machines that didn't want to play nice, or it was a work around for not having a DVD drive for Tiger (or something similar). That seems to work sometimes. Hope that makes sense. (Brain's not into gear too well today,...might be time for some food,..hehehe.) Oh, you could also try loading OS9 and make sure the Firmware is up to date on the "troublesome G4". That might be something as well. Hope that helps. Kind Regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: <daniel @ macwizardry . com . au> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> **For everything Macintosh**
