Panther on Lomard

2003-12-10 Thread Jacob Saariaho
Finally got around to updating my Lombard to Panther. Went through almost the entire installation when suddenly the screen when nuts, went dark with jumping vertical and horizontal lines, never seen that before. When I forced a shut down and restart the computer had a kernel panic immediately.

Re: Panther on Lomard

2003-12-10 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 10/12/03 11:02, Jacob Saariaho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Finally got around to updating my Lombard to Panther. Went through almost the entire installation when suddenly the screen when nuts, went dark with jumping vertical and horizontal lines, never seen that before. When I forced a shut

Re: Panther on Lomard

2003-12-10 Thread Steve Fuller
Try formatting the disk before installing. You're doing a clean install, right? Turn on the option of zeroing all data if you can. Make sure to unplug any peripheral that might be connected to the Lombard. Remove any 3rd party ram during the installation as well. Steve -- G-Books is sponsored

Re: Panther on Lomard

2003-12-10 Thread Jacob Saariaho
All of my ram is 3rd party. On Wednesday, December 10, 2003, at 11:54 AM, Steve Fuller wrote: Try formatting the disk before installing. You're doing a clean install, right? Turn on the option of zeroing all data if you can. Make sure to unplug any peripheral that might be connected to the

Re: Panther on Lomard

2003-12-10 Thread Jacob Saariaho
Took what advise there was to take. Zeroing all data took forever but no luck.Took out my top DIMM and that seems to have done the trick, so far. I do think I'm going to miss some of the fantastic, colorful, displays that started to show up on the last few install attempts, they should make a

Re: Panther on Lomard

2003-12-10 Thread Laurent Daudelin
On 10/12/03 17:00, Jacob Saariaho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Took what advise there was to take. Zeroing all data took forever but no luck.Took out my top DIMM and that seems to have done the trick, so far. I do think I'm going to miss some of the fantastic, colorful, displays that started to

Re: Panther on Lomard

2003-12-10 Thread Tim
On Wednesday, December 10, 2003, at 11:54 AM, Steve Fuller wrote: Try formatting the disk before installing. You're doing a clean install, right? Turn on the option of zeroing all data if you can. Make sure to unplug any peripheral that might be connected to the Lombard. Remove any 3rd party

Re: Panther on Lomard

2003-12-10 Thread Richard Smykla
Jacob, I had to remove a RAM chip from the top slot to get a successful Panther install on my Lombard, bringing my system RAM down to 256 MB. I also had to wipe the partition I was installing on and do a clean install. I had the exact same symptoms you describe until I did those two things.