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#424420 - 04/15/09 10:12 AM Re: Mac OS 10.4 won't load [Re: ]
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I'm suspecting a hardware issue at this point.
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#424421 - 04/15/09 10:17 AM Re: Mac OS 10.4 won't load [Re: ]
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So you started up in Safe Mode?

Do what Reboot suggested: Take the hard drive out and put a new one in or put that one in another mac or case and install that way. Probably easiest to just put a new one in. Hard drives are pretty cheap nowadays. Just make sure you get the right type...probably IDE drive.

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#424426 - 04/15/09 11:10 AM Re: Mac OS 10.4 won't load [Re: John Rougeux]
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Originally Posted By: John Rougeux
So you started up in Safe Mode?

Do what Reboot suggested: Take the hard drive out and put a new one in or put that one in another mac or case and install that way. Probably easiest to just put a new one in. Hard drives are pretty cheap nowadays. Just make sure you get the right type...probably IDE drive.


It didnt even give me the opportunity to start up in Safe Mode. I would still get the error message even holding down the Shift key. I tried something else which was resetting the PRAM and NVRAM. It doesn't really look like it did anything though.

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#424432 - 04/15/09 01:12 PM Re: Mac OS 10.4 won't load [Re: John Rougeux]
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Yes, it's IDE (ATA). These days, they are labeled pATA as opposed to sATA.
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#424439 - 04/15/09 01:44 PM Re: Mac OS 10.4 won't load [Re: ]
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My first suspicion is bad RAM, it will cause the "kernel panics" you're seeing. Only way to check since you can't boot the machine is to swap out the RAM chips, they're PC100, or do the drive swap thing we mentioned.
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#424443 - 04/15/09 03:00 PM Re: Mac OS 10.4 won't load [Re: Reboot]
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Heck, you can get a G3 iMac for cheaper than a new HD! I say he should toss that one and get another one.

James, where are you located?

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#424507 - 04/15/09 10:53 PM Re: Mac OS 10.4 won't load [Re: John Rougeux]
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Originally Posted By: John Rougeux
Heck, you can get a G3 iMac for cheaper than a new HD! I say he should toss that one and get another one.

James, where are you located?


I live in the Boston area. Anyway, I don't even care about loading 10.4 at this point. It has nothing to do with the RAM or hard drive. Basically, I loaded that xpostfacto on my Mac and I had the xpostfacto reboot my machine but I clicked an option from L2 to L3 cache and then it crashed. So at this point, I just want to get the operating system back, which was 10.3.9. So what can I do?

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#424515 - 04/15/09 11:14 PM Re: Mac OS 10.4 won't load [Re: ]
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I have no idea since I haven't ever had that iMac.

I would suggest looking on Craigs List for another used iMac.

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#424522 - 04/15/09 11:34 PM Re: Mac OS 10.4 won't load [Re: John Rougeux]
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Is there a way I can reset the machine so I don't get this error?

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#424524 - 04/15/09 11:54 PM Re: Mac OS 10.4 won't load [Re: ]
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Erase (reformat) and reinstall 10.3. I'm assuming that there is no L3 cache on that machine, hence the crash at startup. Do you have a 10.3 install disk that you can boot up from? If you can get the options from xpostfacto to come up, maybe changing it back to L2 will remedy the problem. Otherwise, you are back to the "nuclear" option.
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