On Jan 10, 2006, at 4:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message Marc van Gemert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
<<
Does anyone think removing the Adaptec 2930CU would help? I know on
some
unsupported Mac's removing certain PCI cards is necessary to install
OS X. But
then the B & W (rev 1) is supported. And according to the Adaptec site
so is the
2930CU.
Removing that card is one of the things I would try first. Second I
would
make sure that only one memory module is installed, preferably the one
which came
with the Mac, because sometimes out of spec memory can cause strange
things.
You can put 'em back when you're done installing the OS, nine out of
ten times
they will still work fine.
This is sound advice. I found that X would not install on my G4 if a
certain one of the three memory chips was installed. Then I discovered
that it would not install if a certain PCI video card was installed.
Removing these two things allowed X to install easily (from those gray
eMac disks sold by OWC). With either item in place, the installer only
brought up the green "kernel panic" screen. It is impossible to predict
what will choke X, it is so fussy. Trial and error (stripping the Mac
down to the bare bones, trying to install X, and putting it back
together item by item) is the only way to find out what's causing the
trouble.
Tom
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