Does your hard drive have a partition for OS9 ? or a firewire drive
or the removable 10 Gig hard drives that goes into the expansion bays?
I had those problems about 10.2,.4 OS 9.2.2 ran perfect, even using
Photoshop and a graphics intense game anything I could throw at it.
When trying to start OS X, all the stuff you mentioned are the same
symptoms I had, so I called Apple 6 weeks later, free support off the
10.2 purchase for one of the 3 Pismos and the first guy was not
slurping his soda and sounded pretty on the know. He said that OS X
requires the video chip on it's startup and 8 megs is just barely
enough, he said I might have a weak video chip. Now as far as I know
chips work or do not work. I was a bit skeptic I hate code. So he
said for $350.00 that included shipping they would swap out a M.B.
and you would get a new/used video chip. I went for it and OS X
10.2.4 ran fine but I had to use OS9 for 2 months and found Os 9's
lack of quirkiness a cool glass of ice tea. It just ran fine and
until Panther came out I just used 9. So the weak video chip covered
the whole M.B. and any possibilities.
I also would be of course skeptical of the upgrade first. I am typing
on my Pismo right now, great books. I think the best Apple ever
turned out. So far they can't get me to bite on a new one. I have a
few iBooks 1.2 but I have lugged this pismo everywhere
Good luck
Geoff
On Jul 12, 2005, at 6:31 , Kevin Bellerose wrote:
Stuck @ spinning gear at start up will spin forever, I reset NVRAM
no help
Did command-s it stopped before it competed the check and did not
make it to
the prompt. I the last 2 succeful boots one soon had video
problems white
lines through the text and loss of icons in task bar, clicking on
blank bar
and icon picture came back. It also came up with message " .....You
must
restart computer....." Seems ominous... I am typing from an old
windows box
to try to get some help. Pismo is G4 500 upgrade/ 1 gig of ram/ 60 gig
toshiba drive and 8x superdrive!
Any help wpu;d be greatly appreciated!
Thanks, Kevin
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