[G4] Re: AGP hard drive question

[MHall]

Jay,

I agree with Hector. OSX installation problems like these usually indicate a ram problem. Have you installed any new DIMM's lately? How much ram do you have? 

BTW, I have a dual 533 Digital Audio and I was considering a similar processor upgrade. Did yours make a big improvement?

Mike

-----Original Message-----
>From: "Hector I. Macedo" <hecmac at comcast.net>
>Sent: Feb 7, 2006 4:42 PM
>To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers." <g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
>Subject: Re: [G4] Re: AGP hard drive question
>
>I would suspect you have a memory chip that Panther is not happy  
>with. Check that.
>
>
>On Feb 7, 2006, at 5:52 PM, JayB wrote:
>
>> First-
>>
>> Thanks to all who've offered help.  I'm truly grateful.
>> A new twist to my little deal:
>>
>> First, for clarity; I have a AGP 500 upgraded to 1gig via Sonnet  
>> CPU.  I have TWO 18gig Ultra SCSI internals (and several external  
>> drives).
>>
>> One of the internal drives was a OS-X bootable drive with Photoshop  
>> and one other OSX ap.  The other drive is OS 9.2.x and lots of new  
>> and old aps and data.
>>
>> I decided to update the OS-X drive to 3.9.x and simply decided to  
>> wipe it clean, do a fresh install and re-load the PS and other ap.   
>> 3/4 of the way thru loading the 1st Panther Disk, it froze.  I  
>> forced a shutdown and tried again, same results.  I decided to do a  
>> more serious erase (zeros and ones).  1/8th of the way through it  
>> froze.  I had to do an other forced shutdown.  When I tried to boot  
>> the drive, it couldn't be found.  I thought it was dead.  I tried a  
>> couple of different CD boot up and ran TechTool.  No luck.
>>
>> After trying everything to resurrect this drive as last ditch  
>> before giving it either it's last rights or using the FLOOR tool, I  
>> got it to  mount  and initialize somehow.
>>
>> Now, I've initialized from Panther Disk Utilities (cd boot), tried  
>> partitioning, tried to install Jaguar, 2 dif sets of Panther (orig  
>> and my back up CDs), and each time, the process stops near the end  
>> of the first CD install.  Tech Tool, Disk First Aid, and Disk  
>> Warrior don't think there's anything wrong.  I also tried to  
>> install from another external CD.  No luck.
>>
>> Any guesses or other things to check?
>>
>> I'm sure I'll install an IDE drive later, but for now- I just  
>> thought I'd exhaust all possibilities.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jay
>>
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