10.4.11 KILLED my mac What have I done/[G4]

[Robert H. Baucom]

I'd suspect the power supply only if the screen was black. He needs  
another computer and an external disk drive. Use the other computer  
to install 10.4 on the ext. disk drive. Install the sonnet or what  
ever it is enabler software on it. Then boot up with the external HD.  
If the  internal HD doesn't show up on the desktop, then you might  
suspect the Power Supply getting power to the internal HD. OR if it's  
getting power the internal drive could be deader than DISCO.
I've been there  with PowerComputing rigs with a G3 daughter card,  
trying to get the  enabler SW installed onto a new or replacement HD.  
It's maddening.
RHB

On Feb 28, 2009, at 4:29 AM, Richard Meyeroff wrote:

> have tried to boot from a CD such as disk warrior or Drive Genius?
> have you tried to boot from your install disks?
>
> it may not be the drives it could be your power supply.
>
>>  God I'm a crybaby, but the computer won't even go into single  
>> user mode or Safe Boot , I can get into Open Firmware with the  
>> little button at the front of the mac (poked in with a pen, it's  
>> actually a G4 Digital Audio) that prompt didn't work in that.
>>
>> I tried to reset nvram before with the prompt:
>> reset-nvram (return)
>> set-defaults (return)
>> reset-all       (return)
>> which used to take me into the master by default but now that I  
>> put the upgrade on no way.
>>
>> I'm wondering "have I burnt out the drives upon installing  
>> 10.4.11" ???????????WTF?????????????WTFK??????
>>
>> On Saturday, February 28, 2009, at 02:13AM, "gifutiger"  
>> <gifutiger at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Greetings ( + )!( + )
>>
>>> give it a try, it was stated that it might be helpful when you  
>>> couldn't get your system to boot.
>>>
>>> 1. Start-up in single user mode
>>> 2. enter the following:
>>>
>>> sudo nvram boot-args=""
>>> reboot
>>
>>> On Feb 28, 2009, at 12:12 AM, Umar Stone wrote:
>>
>>>>  I decided hey I'll try and Download 10.4.11 for my master  
>>>> since  maybe it only being 10.4.10, while the SATA was 11, could  
>>>> have  caused some incompatibility issue
>>>>
>>>>  After trying to load it up on my Master drive (the working one)  
>>>> it  crashed in the process and now the whole computer Master and  
>>>> Slave  won't open past startup; the blue band won't even start  
>>>> loading up,  PRAM and Option or Firmware resets wont do a thing.
>>>>
>>>>  So I figured it out Tiger 10.4.11 Combo PPC - KILLED MY MAC
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