cant reinstall os x on a powermac g5...
wasn't sure if this should go here or genius bar....please help!
yesterday i noticed that my mail ap quit unexpectedly. i am good about repairing permissions often so tried this again and nothing. whenever i tried to start mail it would just show the unexpectedly quit box and stop. trashing prefs didnt help. after awhile i decided to just wipe the drive (formatting with zeros) and reinstall. on a brand new 10.3.5 disk it would get through disc one and then during the disc 2 install it would stop saying "errors on intallation". i tried reparing the disc, doing a complete techtool deluxe surface scan which showed no problems. i would imagine this has something to do with a bad drive but am at a loss.
anyone have a clue what this could be? i really dont want to take this thing over to the apple store so i am without it for a week or so. would really appreciate any help but have a bad feeling that something hardware is toast....
yesterday i noticed that my mail ap quit unexpectedly. i am good about repairing permissions often so tried this again and nothing. whenever i tried to start mail it would just show the unexpectedly quit box and stop. trashing prefs didnt help. after awhile i decided to just wipe the drive (formatting with zeros) and reinstall. on a brand new 10.3.5 disk it would get through disc one and then during the disc 2 install it would stop saying "errors on intallation". i tried reparing the disc, doing a complete techtool deluxe surface scan which showed no problems. i would imagine this has something to do with a bad drive but am at a loss.
anyone have a clue what this could be? i really dont want to take this thing over to the apple store so i am without it for a week or so. would really appreciate any help but have a bad feeling that something hardware is toast....
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Do you have any third party hardware installed on the G5? You may want ot remove it.
Originally posted by Leonard
You don't by chance have a Geforce 6800 Ultra, do you? It's unlikely you do, but if you do, I heard the install CD doesn't have the drivers for the Geforce 6800 Ultra and causes problems.
Do you have any third party hardware installed on the G5? You may want ot remove it.
From the description given, it's likely a scratch or hair.
I'd recommend running the [extended] hardware test that came with your G5 (it's a CD that says "hardware test" on it), just in case.
its odd because i tried the installation at least 4 times and each time erasing it. some would get further than others before quiting. i checked for scratches but these were brand new , right out of the box.
apple support today suggested the hardware test and putting it in continuous loop mode for a few hours to see if anything shows up. i mean, how finiky can these cd readers be? whats odd is that each time it does seem to be random as to how far it goes
guess bad ram can really screw up all sorts of things.