Re: Problems with install on Power Mac G3 minitower
At Thu, 1 Apr 2004 22:29:42 -0500,
Nathanael Hasbrouck <natbrouck@webryders.net> wrote:
>
> On Thursday 01 April 2004 2031, somebody named Ron Murray inscribed this
> message:
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> > ... and that's exactly what happened. I removed the PCI SCSI board,
> > disconnected power from the SCSI drives, then connected an old SCSI
> > drive to the other SCSI bus and powered it all up. The installer locked
> > up again, just as before, so I guess the problem, whatever it is,
> > doesn't have anything to do with the SCSI board or drives.
>
> Heh, cool. (Sorta. Progress, at any rate. ;) Bad RAM maybe? That's the
> only other thing *I* can think of. Had some of that, too. (Original 16MB
> DIMMS that shipped with the machine. :)
Yeh, I thought of that too. Fortunately I have a couple of 128K RAM
modules that seem to work in the box. Tried one of them, and still the
same result. Even if they're not quite right for a Mac (although they
work fine in MacOS), I'd expect a different effect.
This is getting weirder by the day. I gather that Macs have lots of
strange bits of memory all over the place: is any other memory likely
to do this? And, even better, is there a good Mac memory test program
around?
.....Ron
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