Hi Paul Thanks for the tip about OS9.2 but like I say, I have thrown in the towel on installing that for now, the more pressing issue at the moment is making my hard drive work. I zapped the PRAM and tried to rebuild the desktop, both to no avail. I don't have any backup system as I am only running the one drive that came with the computer. Any more suggestions?
Also, despite having no plans to attempt OSX on this thing, I would like some more RAM, however, OWC does not have a clearance on (it's still $25/stick US) and once I get the shipping charges and customs charges cleared it becomes about $100/stick US = $130/stick CAN. Do you know of any places in Canada that have cheap RAM? -Eric OS9.2 will not load on a S900 without a code hack. I haven't used it but remember mention that it is at the OWC website. Most people just take the open GL driver code from 9.2 and put it into 9.1 for use with newer video cards. You should deal with the old RAM issue, especially if you have any hope of a migration to OSX. Again, OWC has a great clearance on 128MB dimms for the S900. You may have corrupted your OS in your instal attempts. I'd zap the Pram and try to rebuild the desktop if the computer will boot. Don't you have any back up system on another drive or disc? Paul C Eric D. Hedekar wrote: > I was recently upgrading my S900 OS9.0 through to 9.2.2 (9.0.4, 9.1, >9.2.1, then 9.2.2) and I was sucessful in getting 9.1 to load and run. I >had been runing the downloaded installers off the harddisk, not from CD. >When attempting to load 9.2.1 I received the error message at the beginning >of the install wizard: this program cannot be installed on this computer, >please se the documentaion for more info (the documentation merely told me >to boot from CD as the other docs also had done). I attempted the 9.2.2 >install at that point but ran into the same block. > >Shot down, I decided to burn the image and boot from CD. The method of >holding down "C" at the startup does not work on my comp so I was using the >command+option+shift+delete function (not sure if that makes a difference to >my situation). The comp failed to recognize the CD as valid (I did download >these updates straight from the apple website) after many attempts. > >I should also mention that I do have the odd problem sometimes with ram >sticks (some older some newer) in which my comp frezes without any warning >or cause, but that's extremely rare. I'm pretty sure that during one >attempt to boot from CD this fault took hold and I was stuck looking at the >grey screen with the smiling computer looking back for a few minuites. > >After restarting that time, the CD still refused to be recognized so I was >ready to throw in the towel on 9.2.1 (and the subsequent 9.2.2). However, >when I finished this attempt the friendly computer popped back up - like >usual - and then after about 30 seconds of attempting to load the already >installed 9.1 (I could hear the hard drive going doo-dah-doo-dah-etc.. at >regular intervals) the computer returned to the blinking disc icon. I tried >a few more times after that to just simply boot into 9.1 from the hard disk >(I have no CD for that and my 9.0 CD has long been lost) but each attempt >returned with the same result of false hope and a blinking disk icon. > >Any ideas on how bad my system is screwed would be greatly appreciated. >Thanks. > >-Eric > > > > -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com --------------------------------------------------------------- -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
