[Ti] restored PowerBook G4 Titanium

Lynda Infantino lyni at bigego.com
Fri Oct 6 16:43:01 PDT 2006


Thank you, Alexandre

On Oct 6, 2006, at 5:54 PM, alexandre wrote:

>
> On 6 oct. 06, at 21:45, Lynda Infantino wrote:
>
>> I recently bought a restored 15" Mac PowerBook G4/1GHz Titanium with 
>> 768 Ram and a Wireless card installed.
>> I upgraded it to OS 10.3 with the Panther disks that came with my 
>> desktop iMac G4 (the "half-dome"model) which also has a wireless 
>> card.
>> But the Titanium has trouble booting up. It will do a "safe boot-up" 
>> when I hold down the shift key but it only occasionally (after many 
>> tries and sometimes after zapping the pram) boots-up when turned on 
>> without holding down the shiftkey. It goes to the grey apple screen 
>> and then to a light blue screen where it hangs up.
>> I called TechRestore, where I bought it and they said yu shouldn't 
>> install the Panther CD's that came with the iMac onto the PowerBook.
>> What do you think?
>
> hi lynda.
>
> techrestore are right. you can't use install cds from one type of mac 
> onto another type of mac. they're machine specific, unlike a boxed 
> version of os x that you buy in a store.
>
> regards
>
> alexandre
> :: 17" 1.5ghz powerbook / 1.5gb / 100gb at 7200 / X.4.8 ::
>
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