On Saturday, January 11, 2003, at 06:14PM, Brian Christmas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:

>
>G'day Mark.
>
>Hope you're getting on ok with the upgrade.
>
>For your info, I installed a 500 G4 zif and a Radeon 7000 PCI , along 
>with 768 meg. (OWC). Dead easy, 5 minute job.
>
>Everything was fine, so after 24 I overclocked to 533. Seemed ok.
>
>Quitting from 9.2.2, Nortons 7 told me major problem on the 8 Gig Jag 
>partition.
>
>Ran Norton DD from boot disk. Took 3 goes to fix.
>
>Thought I'd run speed disk while I was at it, as highly fragmented.
>
>Result, no access to Jag. Tried everything. Backed up already, so ended 
>withg clean format/install
>
>Installer freezes just before first disk cleans up.
>
>Tried from original CD drive, but even worse.
>
>I'm going to re-clock to 500, but I suspect 500 G4 Zif and installer are 
>incompatible.
>
>The only way to boot into 9.2.2 is to remove interface connector from 
>CD, cudo re-set does not work. Also pulled Radeon.
>
>OK to replace lead after 30 mins. (power disconnected of course)
>
>Regards
>
>Santa
Brian,
Chances are the Zif is fine. Norton's, on the other hand, is known to screw up OS X 
drives all the time.

Mikeal
>
>
>

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