On Jan 28, 2004, at 2:47 PM, Dave Bonhoff wrote:
I O/C'd by changing the multiplier. I did not change the bus speed. I appreciate that this may be a factor, but since it was stable under Jaguar, I don't know why Panther would have issues. Panther appears to be less CPU intensive than Jaguar. It is certainly much snappier and according to the Activity monitor, the CPU usage appears to be lower on average.
It doesn't matter, fundamental parts of the OS changed dramatically between 10.2 and 10.3. Prudent troubleshooting mandates that you turn off the overclocking.
The hard drive is less than a year old, so I can only hope that it is still in good order. Disk Utility has not reported any issues with regards to S.M.A.R.T. status. At this time I'm leaning to possible RAM issues, video driver issues, and problems with permissions.
A complete initialization of the drive with zeroes will turn up any sector-related issues. If your drive is having difficulty spinning up it would be manifested in other ways (notable pauses, system hangs, obvious noise).
Correct me if this is wrong, but if I am able to do a full backup using either CCC or Disk Utility, I would be safe in attempting to do an archive and restore installation - assuming I remove one of the 256 MB RAM chips. If I did this, would I have to re-install all my applications again? Obviously I'd have to do all the software updates. But I'm thinking that I might be able to eliminate problems with permissions this way and possibly any corrupt components from the current install.
Use CCC. I assume you're thinking of backing up to a FW device. Definitely the best way to go. If you do this and subsequently do an archive and install you should be OK. The Panther installer won't clobber stuff you've added to any of the folder hierarchies such as /Application and /Library. (Actually, this changed in Jag too but I'm not sure exactly when...)
Keep in mind that if you do an archive and install that you probably don't want to be preserving current users and network settings. This shouldn't matter if you have a complete backup as you'll be able to restore bits and pieces of your home directory as needed. As long as you don't completely replace your new home directory with your old you should be good to go.
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