> From: Roland Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have a Power Mac 7600, which has a Sonnet G3 500, 256 MB RAM, a Macally > USB/Firewire card, a 1GB SCSI drive, a Maxtor 160GB attached to an ATA > controller card, and a Radeon 7000 card, on which I was running Jaguar. I > decided to upgrade to Panther and that's when all the trouble started. > > The upgrade to Panther went unsuccessfully, so I decided to wipe all the > drives clean and start from scratch. But when I tried to install OS 9.1 > again, I had issues trying to install it. Sometimes it would boot up and get > stuck while the extensions were loading. On other occasions, it would get > past loading extensions and allow me to begin the installation process. > Shortly thereafter, the installation would stall. > > I pulled out the all the third-party cards and tried the installation again, > but still could not install OS 9.1. I even tried a different installation > CD, but with similar results. I zapped the PRAM several times and reset the > CUDA switch. Again, similar results prevailed. I pulled out the PRAM battery > and left it out over night, installed it again, and booted up the computer. > But this did not help either. > > I now suspect that there must be some sort of hardware issue. And I am > thinking the most likely suspect is the CD-ROM drive. > > Any thoughts would be appreciated. >
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