[G4] Sawtooth sudden power failure!

[jonseward at mindspring.com]

Shawn,

Did you try uninstalling Leopard?

When I upgrade the OS, I generally do the install on a spare partition, or
take the opportunity to install a new, larger 
internal drive.  That let's me archive the old OS in place, and to easily
boot back into the old, stable configuration if 
something goes wrong or is buggy.

And I back up everything onto DVD's before doing the install, just for fun.

I have the same Sawtooth and have been considering the upgrade, so this is
worrisome.

Are you running Leopard now?

Thanks,

Jon



Original Message:
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From: Shawn Noel shawnoel at insightbb.com
Date: Wed, 5 Dec 2007 00:01:20 -0500
To: g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
Subject: Re: [G4] Sawtooth sudden power failure!


Hey! I have had something like that happen to me. Directly after I  
installed Leopard (upgrade install) on my G4 Sawtooth AGP, the gray  
screen came up for around nine seconds and then...zapp! The drive had  
to be wiped clean in the end. I arranged the components in all sorts  
of configurations, took out questionable RAM, swapped  
monitors(ADC)....everything. I couldn't boot from the D drive which  
made things worse. Disk Utility via laptop helped out with that. I  
hope that you get your answer.

On Dec 4, 2007, at 6:19 AM, Tore wrote:

> Has anyone experienced this phenomenon, there is no apparent reason  
> and I can restart immediately. I'm on a UPS so there is no general  
> PF and the screen has power from the G4 the whole time. The machine  
> just switches off, no shut down, no warnig, just zapp!
>
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Shawn Noel
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