[G4] PowerMac G4 (AGP Graphics) booting from external drive

[nagable at comcast.net]

The fact that it freezes when Photoshop is open leads me to think it might be a RAM issue.  Swap the RAM with another machine and see if the symptoms follow.

Nate
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From: Seth Dimbert <sdimbert at hbha.edu>
> I've got a couple of PM G4 (AGP) machines in my Mac Lab and one of  
> them misbehaves. It freezes randomly when Photoshop is open (even  
> after it's re-imaged with a fresh image) and will not boot from an  
> external firewire drive. The other, identical machine will, but this  
> one will not.
> 
> I've just re-installed a fresh copy of Panther, but System Prefs will  
> not let me choose the external drive as a Startup Disk and rebooting  
> with Option held down doesn't work, either.
> 
> Any ideas as to what coule be wrong?
> 
> -SD
> 
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> Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy
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