[G4] Sawtooth sudden power failure!

[Shawn Noel]

Hey Jon! I'll tell you what I would have done had I known Leopard was  
going to be such a pain to install. I would have taken the opportunity  
to buy a new hard drive and make it the master drive. Then, use my  
original as the slave drive. After installing Leopard onto the new  
drive, I then would have the option of using migration  
assistant(utilities[awesome]) to  copy everything from the old  
drive(slave) to the new drive(master). That's what I would do if I  
were someone wanting to upgrade my G4 to Leopard. You can never have  
too many hard drives anyhow. I did back-up my drive which is why I  
didn't worry too much when I had to wipe the drive clean. I've read  
that it's a formatting issue with older machines. Thanks for the tips  
Jon. Happy Holidays!

On Dec 5, 2007, at 5:41 AM, jonseward at mindspring.com wrote:

> 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:
> -----------------
> 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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