robchristianson
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Hello all. I am having an especially frustrating time installing OS X, nevermind the fact that I installed a bunch of other stuff at the same time. Doesn't help the elimination process any...
Here's my problem.
In starting up under OS X, I get the gray start screen with the apple logo, and before the "spinny wheel thing" comes up, i get (for lack of a better term) 'garbage' running horizontally through the gray screen for about the middle 1/4th of the screen, and the machine is frozen.
If i startup from the CD, i have better luck, but if I try to do the Disk Utility program, i get a window-shade effect and a message coming up saying "You Must Restart Your Computer" which I discovered is some sort of "Darwin Kernel error" - seems common, but i cannot fix it.
I really know my way around OS 9.x, so I feel like a complete idiot not even knowing where to start, and I have yet to find someone who's had the same problem as me on any message-board on the Internet...
Here are details:
My machine is a B/W G3, 350 mhz originally. I don't think it's revision 2, because according to XLR8yourmac.com I should have a u-bracket for a 2nd hard drive, which i do not.
I replaced my old 350 G3 processor with a OWC Mercury ZA G4/533-550 Altivec 1M processor. (note, I updated my firmware before installing the g4 processor under os 9.2.2, and I also put the old processor back in to test in OS X but I got the same garbage-lockup problem, so I don't beleive it's necessarily the processor)
I replaced the factory HD with a 60 GB IBM DeskStar 180GXP hard disk. (note, I did check a couple different cables and got the same garbage-error so I don't believe it's the cables)
I partioned the new HD into 2 partitions, 1 being 10gb, the other being the remaining space, as I was installing OS X v10.2
That's when I started running into this problem. A co-worker had darwin kernel issues and they were resolved on his newer iMac with the latest system update (is it 10.6 or something like that).
I did the "software update" thru the apple menu and downloaded that 80mb update, but the problem remains.
WHAT SHOULD I DO??? This is causing serious downtime for my job, and I was forced to reconnect the old OS 9 Hard disk just to get some work done. Can anyone help???
Thanks in advance!
Here's my problem.
In starting up under OS X, I get the gray start screen with the apple logo, and before the "spinny wheel thing" comes up, i get (for lack of a better term) 'garbage' running horizontally through the gray screen for about the middle 1/4th of the screen, and the machine is frozen.
If i startup from the CD, i have better luck, but if I try to do the Disk Utility program, i get a window-shade effect and a message coming up saying "You Must Restart Your Computer" which I discovered is some sort of "Darwin Kernel error" - seems common, but i cannot fix it.
I really know my way around OS 9.x, so I feel like a complete idiot not even knowing where to start, and I have yet to find someone who's had the same problem as me on any message-board on the Internet...
Here are details:
My machine is a B/W G3, 350 mhz originally. I don't think it's revision 2, because according to XLR8yourmac.com I should have a u-bracket for a 2nd hard drive, which i do not.
I replaced my old 350 G3 processor with a OWC Mercury ZA G4/533-550 Altivec 1M processor. (note, I updated my firmware before installing the g4 processor under os 9.2.2, and I also put the old processor back in to test in OS X but I got the same garbage-lockup problem, so I don't beleive it's necessarily the processor)
I replaced the factory HD with a 60 GB IBM DeskStar 180GXP hard disk. (note, I did check a couple different cables and got the same garbage-error so I don't believe it's the cables)
I partioned the new HD into 2 partitions, 1 being 10gb, the other being the remaining space, as I was installing OS X v10.2
That's when I started running into this problem. A co-worker had darwin kernel issues and they were resolved on his newer iMac with the latest system update (is it 10.6 or something like that).
I did the "software update" thru the apple menu and downloaded that 80mb update, but the problem remains.
WHAT SHOULD I DO??? This is causing serious downtime for my job, and I was forced to reconnect the old OS 9 Hard disk just to get some work done. Can anyone help???
Thanks in advance!