groovy_stu
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OK guys, I have a PM G5 1.8 dual with 4.5 GB Ram.
Under OSX panther, it worked fine no probs. So decided to give Tiger a go. Thinking only 30 minutes and everything will be wonderful and my G5 will have a new spring in its step!
As ever, a clean install was the case with everything backed up and safe, so I haven't lost anything. The only trouble is, when Tiger eventually got on my G5 as the installer kept crashing (this took 4 hours to eventually work); Tiger ended up being so unstable I could only use it for about 5 minutes, the G5 would then simply freeze.
I have done loads, called Apple who when through everything from taking out the ram, and other bits, to resetting the PMU and so on. Still no joy. It was then taken to an Apple Centre who really didn't do a great deal. They ran hardware test's and said it was fine, and re-installed tiger. They said that it was running fine for hours without a hitch, what they actually failed to do was actually use the G5 with Tiger and see how stable it is.
Now, I decided to leave tiger alone and erase and zero the drive and go back to Panther. However, the panther installer now does the same as the the Tiger installer did. Now I am dead in the water. All the G5 does is crash and I have to hard reset.
Ideally I'd love to have Tiger working properly, but then I can't get the CD out of the drive as the installer wont let me. But then Tiger causes the same crashing problem. Panther or any OS would be nice at the moment, but all that happens is the system will crash during instal.
Any ideas anyone?
Stu
Under OSX panther, it worked fine no probs. So decided to give Tiger a go. Thinking only 30 minutes and everything will be wonderful and my G5 will have a new spring in its step!
As ever, a clean install was the case with everything backed up and safe, so I haven't lost anything. The only trouble is, when Tiger eventually got on my G5 as the installer kept crashing (this took 4 hours to eventually work); Tiger ended up being so unstable I could only use it for about 5 minutes, the G5 would then simply freeze.
I have done loads, called Apple who when through everything from taking out the ram, and other bits, to resetting the PMU and so on. Still no joy. It was then taken to an Apple Centre who really didn't do a great deal. They ran hardware test's and said it was fine, and re-installed tiger. They said that it was running fine for hours without a hitch, what they actually failed to do was actually use the G5 with Tiger and see how stable it is.
Now, I decided to leave tiger alone and erase and zero the drive and go back to Panther. However, the panther installer now does the same as the the Tiger installer did. Now I am dead in the water. All the G5 does is crash and I have to hard reset.
Ideally I'd love to have Tiger working properly, but then I can't get the CD out of the drive as the installer wont let me. But then Tiger causes the same crashing problem. Panther or any OS would be nice at the moment, but all that happens is the system will crash during instal.
Any ideas anyone?
Stu