[G4] Re: System Preferences Update

[B G]

This is the G3 with the G4 upgrade ZIFF right?

I am thinking you may need to remove the the new and reinstall the  
old processor. This upgrade has drivers that might be damaged.

Just a guess on my part.

BG


On Apr 13, 2007, at 9:50 PM, Dan A Currie wrote:

> Technophobic_Tom at comcast.net wrote:
>
>>> Every time I use OS 9 and the C or X keys it just keeps
>>> restarting  with the smiley Mac and when I use OS 10.2
>>> all I get is a gray screen.
>>
>>
>> Are they legitimate system disks?
>>
> Yes, they are legitimate disks and I finally figured out what I did  
> to cause it ... I just do not know how to fix it.  My MDD runs  
> Tiger and I forgot which computer I was on and ran Applejack ... on  
> a computer with 2 system folder and 2 different OS's .  I think  
> that screwed it up!!
>
> Now that John Baltutis was kind enough to show me how to get beyond  
> the gray screen and back to the desktop, I just need a way to get  
> it to recognize either OSs' startup CD so that I can scrub the HD  
> and do a clean install of OS 10.2.8 and end this long nightmare!!
>
> Short of taking a magnet to it I am stuck and I have repeatedly  
> tried restarting with both OS CDs and it will not see them as  
> Startup CDs and goes back to 10.2.8 and boots up nicely.  Even  
> inserted the original 10.2 CD and tried to make it restart it by  
> trying to re-install the OS but it goes back to 10.2.8.
>
> Wits end and getting hairless,
>
> Dan
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