At 1:21 AM -0600 4/07/2005, Are Hansen wrote: >Might be a RAM problem, though I don't see how OSX could function for >so long and now suddenly refuse. > >OSX is much more particular about RAM characteristics than OS9 was. >There is a little application, "DIMM First Aid", that will check >whether your RAM is up to OSX' demands - I have sent you that in an >off-list mail. It is an OS9 application. > >Did you ever upgrade your firmware before installing OSX? I know this >has to be done on iMacs, maybe it's necessary on your G4 also. > >But DO run the DIMM First Aid before any firmware update! If the >updater finds any RAM it doesn't like, it will be DISABLED and >henceforth invisible to the system - and therefore unavailable to OS9 >as well I guess. > >And: don't boot or run any disk utility from a 10.2 CD on your 10.3 >system!
Too late, I did run the 10.2 installer disk's utility, as well as the 10.3 updater disk's utility, as well everything else that would run (Disk Warrior 3.0.2, Safe Boot, Single User and Verbose modes (I've fsck'd things till I'm fsck of it). I've been up most of the night with this thing, trying everything, got a few hours sleep, now I'm back at it. No joy. Sometime during the night I once again tried the eMac OS-X 10.2 installer disk that OWC sold me, and for some reason the green-screen kernal panic did not happen that time and the installer disk worked. So following Pogue's advice (in his OS-X Panther book) I did a fresh archive & install of 10.2 on the internal disk that had 10.3.8 on it, and then upgraded the 10.2 to 10.3 with my Panther update disks. It took hours, and seemed promising or awihile, and then the kernal panics started again, the green screens, the hangs, the weird blue screens with the time appearing and fading in the upper right corner of the screen. Disk Warrior fixed it sometimes and then it immediately broke again. Repairing Permissions fixes a lot of stuff and then it's immediately broken again. In Single User or Verbose mode, all the text ends that streams by on the screen ends up with "panic we are hanging here" and it's frozen. At this point I've got this computer stripped down to the bare bones. No externals items at all, except keyboard and modem wire. No PCI cards, including the PCI controller card that runs two of the three internal drives. Therefore OS-X is out too, since it's installed on one of those two drives. Two of the three RAM chips are out. I'm down to the original 512 RAM chip and one single hard drive running on the original internal ATA bus, with 9.2.2 on it. My thoughts at this point: Is it possible that the SATA PCI card that runs two of the internal drives is bad? When all the text was streaming by in Verbose mode I could see the works "SeriTek" here and there, the name of the maker of this card I guess (I also saw the Adaptec SCSI card mentioned, but I pulled that before reinstalling 10.2 and the OS still hung up). What is a CUDA switch and how do you reset it, and why does Pogue make no mention of such a thing in his book? Should I now install 10.2 on the single remaining hard drive right beside 9.2.2? I thought the two OS's were supposed to reside on different disks? But I can only get my other two internal disks back if I re-install the SATA card in a PCI slot. Should I plug in my chain of three external FireWire drives, and try to install 10.2 on one of them? I'm about at the end of the rope here. More ideas, anybody? Tom Art website at http://www.ThomasBakerPaintings.com Archaeology website at http://www.nmia.com/~jaybird/AANewsletter/ -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
