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Postby xdefearsx » Tue 01 Jun, 2004 9:32 am

I have a G4 (blue and grey) 450Mhz. 512 megs ram and a 25 gig hard drive. I installed Panther about a month ago. But my computer would lock up and freeze randomly. It seemed about every 15 minutes. I had heard that some of the older G4's had problems with Panther. I asked around and I was told to update my firmware.

Well I was downloading my firmware patch and the new Panther v. .4, 2 nights ago and my computer locked up 1/2 way through the download. Common occurance for me. So i restarted, and it never booted back up. I tried rebooting off the system disk but it wouldnt read it. I would get a scipt error (it looked like DOS, im guessing it was Unix code saying something about firmware, if i could have taken a screen shot i would have). Anyway, long story short, I had to boot off the original installer that came with the computer, I installed OS9, then did a clean install for 0S 9.2. Things were going great. I tried to update to panther, It wont read the disk. IF the computer is running and I insert the disk it reads it. But it wont boot up off of the Panther CD. It will boot up off any CD now except Panther.

Any ideas?? Is it still some firmware issue? or some other item ive overlooked?
Help please, I do freelance web design. This machine is my life line. I havent been able to work in 2 days.
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Postby Antony » Tue 01 Jun, 2004 5:55 pm

firmware could be one issue. If you have latest firmware for your Mac, things should be fine.

Another it's that an upgraded Mac? And what about the CD/DVD drive? When you try to boot up from CD/DVD, did you press the special key?
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Postby xdefearsx » Tue 01 Jun, 2004 9:54 pm

No its not an upgraded mac. No upgrades on it except for the ram. And what special key? Ive never had to press any special key to start up off a Cd before.
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Postby Antony » Fri 04 Jun, 2004 12:09 am

Have you tried holding C while booting up? (with the disc in the drive)
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Postby xdefearsx » Fri 04 Jun, 2004 7:28 am

yes i have. I am almost insulted you had to ask me that. =)
I found out what the problem was. The firmware became corrupted somway somehow during the download. Everything should be working fine now. BUT ....
I had a mac tec look at it, fix it. I bring it home hook it up and 15 minutes into using it locks up. Which is the original problem I was having, which is why i was told to update my firmware, which cause the killing of my machine.

I just need a G5.
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Postby Antony » Fri 04 Jun, 2004 7:46 am

xdefearsx wrote:yes i have. I am almost insulted you had to ask me that. =)
That's not very nice.

So are you able to use Panther now?
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Postby xdefearsx » Fri 04 Jun, 2004 7:55 am

I wasnt trying to be mean. sorry to early in the morning for my sarcasm i guess.

yes I can use panther now, but it still crashes. So there is still some sort or hardware issue going on.

I LOVE COMPUTERS.
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Postby Antony » Fri 04 Jun, 2004 8:41 am

I guess I have to be careful when I ask.

Do you have many applications in your Mac? Are those all updated?
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Postby xdefearsx » Fri 04 Jun, 2004 8:47 am

Right now I dont have anything on it but what was included w/ panther. The hard drive has been erased, eradicated and whiped clean. NOTHING is on it.

Could it be a memory issue? I have 512 megs or ram, but could my memory be bad?
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Postby Mandrake » Fri 04 Jun, 2004 8:56 am

xdefearsx wrote:I just need a G5.


Buy me one while your at it! :P
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Postby Antony » Fri 04 Jun, 2004 8:56 am

Well, with my old Mac, (PowerMac G4 400 MHz PCI, 512MB RAM) I don't have any problems with Panther running...

If you want to test your memory, you can try to take out one at a time.
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Postby xdefearsx » Fri 04 Jun, 2004 9:12 am

Well do you have any other ideas as to why It would just randomly lock up?

(I really appreciate your help too)
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Postby xdefearsx » Fri 04 Jun, 2004 9:13 am

G5's for everyone.
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Postby DJGM » Fri 04 Jun, 2004 10:04 am

xdefearsx wrote:G5's for everyone.


Me first! I'll have a 23" Apple Cinema Display with mine, if it's not too much trouble!

;-)
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Postby xdefearsx » Fri 04 Jun, 2004 10:08 am

In order to get the G5 you have to tell me why my puter keeps crashing. It just randomly freezes. Any ideas?
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