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I've tried every possible boot key sequence, including the one you suggest. Nothing works.
Thanks for your suggestions, though.
krec
Upgrade to 10.3.7 failed
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Posted 09 February 2005 - 07:41 PM
Grab the 10.3.8 Combo updater - you're beating a post-dead horsey, now. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif
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Posted 11 February 2005 - 06:07 PM
OK - I'm making progress.
Was able to borrow a small (6 gig) dirve with OS 9.2 and 10.2.8 on it. Switched it with the drive that the OS update froze on and ....
IT WORKS!!! So all of my problems must be from a very corrupted hard drive caused by the OS X 10.3.7 update.
Then, I put in my new ram ... beautiful... the old ram and the new ram are playing nicely together - have 512 now.
So, now I just need to figure out how to get this 60 gig hard drive reformatted - remember...
- with the 60 gig in the G3 it will not boot from the cd drive or any other way, so I can't use my system 10.3.5 install cd to fix the drive.
- also the creep that sold me this G3 on ebay told me the G3 was Revision 2 - must be because the processor says 450 - don't they usually put those in Rev. 2 machines? So, since I have Rev. 1 (U2 - not 402 on the chip) I don't have multiple hard drive capability.
So... should I purchase an IDE controller card, plug in the two drives... boot from the 6 gig and then try to reformat the 60 gig???
Does that sound like it will work?
Or.... could I remove the Atapi Zip drive and put my second drive in that slot... and go from there. Just a thought ...
I am really not sure how to handle this next step.
Suggestions are welcomed!
krec
Was able to borrow a small (6 gig) dirve with OS 9.2 and 10.2.8 on it. Switched it with the drive that the OS update froze on and ....
IT WORKS!!! So all of my problems must be from a very corrupted hard drive caused by the OS X 10.3.7 update.
Then, I put in my new ram ... beautiful... the old ram and the new ram are playing nicely together - have 512 now.
So, now I just need to figure out how to get this 60 gig hard drive reformatted - remember...
- with the 60 gig in the G3 it will not boot from the cd drive or any other way, so I can't use my system 10.3.5 install cd to fix the drive.
- also the creep that sold me this G3 on ebay told me the G3 was Revision 2 - must be because the processor says 450 - don't they usually put those in Rev. 2 machines? So, since I have Rev. 1 (U2 - not 402 on the chip) I don't have multiple hard drive capability.
So... should I purchase an IDE controller card, plug in the two drives... boot from the 6 gig and then try to reformat the 60 gig???
Does that sound like it will work?
Or.... could I remove the Atapi Zip drive and put my second drive in that slot... and go from there. Just a thought ...
I am really not sure how to handle this next step.
Suggestions are welcomed!
krec
