[G4] Could the problem be a weak power supply?

[Eric Wood]

If it's an issue of the power supply warming up, may be try installing
to another hard drive or reinstalling to that first partition. If you
happen to have an extra hard drive on hand, swapping it in to do this
experiment should be ideal. That way, it may just prove to be a
partitioning issue.

Eric

On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 14:19 -1000, Bruce Ryan Nakamura wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Can a weak power supply in my Powermac G4 MDD cause kernal panics when 
> loading software from a genuine Apple Install/Restore DVD?
> 
> I partitioned my 80GB hard drive into 3 partitions and loaded Panther 
> successfully off of the genuine Apple Install/Restore DVD to the first 
> partition.  However, when I tried to install Panther onto the second 
> partition, the installation kept crashing and I kept getting a "You 
> have to restart..." message, finally I gave up.
> 
> I don't have problems installing Panther through the Firewire 400 port 
> at the Genius bar in the Apple Store.  I am speculating that the DVD 
> drive needs more power than the Firewire port and that voltage 
> fluctuations from a weak power supply could be causing kernal panics 
> which result in a crashed installation.
> 
> I am further speculating that the reason why the first installation 
> went ok and the second installation crashed is because the power supply 
> warmed up and began to get weak.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Bruce Ryan Nakamura
> 
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