Hey cwick and everyone interested, I checked the master/slave settings and as directed, they were in the right order for the machine; I tried applejack repeatedly on each HD about 6 times. So I think it may be a power issue, if it is can I fix it ? Thanks everyone who maybe wasting their time on my old G4 (which I want to survive) On 15/02/2009, at 7:27 PM, cwick wrote: > i posted that earlier... > id def check the master/slave settings on all ur drives....gl man > > cwick > > > --- On Sat, 2/14/09, Umar Stone <umartisan at mac.com> wrote: > >> From: Umar Stone <umartisan at mac.com> >> Subject: Re: [G4] What Have I Done To Deserve This >> To: "A place to discuss Apple's G4 computers." >> <g4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com> >> Date: Saturday, February 14, 2009, 7:41 PM >> Cool, I wish ...., I did the applejack thing it fixed a few >> lost files and permissions, like Tiger cache cleaner that i >> use for similar situations, it didn't help with the >> relaunching of finder or crashing of files & programs on >> the master, nor on the others. >> Disk Utility I naturally try to start from the original >> disk, with everything disconnected but the keyboard mouse >> and screen, still freezes at language selection. otherwise >> if I try it in utilities it won't find anything but >> maybe a permission checkin all drives. >> my memory (the computers) seems to be cool I have 3 SDRAM >> all 133's 2 are 512 1 is a 256, can i put more?. >> The Maxtor I installed Tiger on, but copied programs and >> files onto. >> So as a novice ( I'm much better at animation than >> computer problems) would I have mixed up the master/slave >> when formating the Maxtor into this machine and how could i >> fix it? >> >> I don't know much about all of this kinda stuff thanks >> all of you for helping >> >> On 14/02/2009, at 3:05 PM, Eric Wood wrote: >> >>> G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> G4 mailing list >> G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com >> http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4 > _______________________________________________ > G4 mailing list > G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4