Trouble installing 10.2 on 9500 w/G3 upgrade. |
October, 26, 2003 6:53 AM |
arington |
I have two hard drives, a 2 gig for OS9 and a 9 gig for OSX. So far, I can install 10.1 and 10.1.5 with no trouble. I have removed all pci cards but my video card (old ATY XCLAIM "Bandit") and the L2 cache. When I try installing 10.2 using XPF 3.0a4, two things happen. First, Xpostfacto runs fine up until it goes to shutdown and reboot into the install disc. There, it hangs at the desktop with a spinning clock. I've let it sit there for what is to me a very long time, at least an hour or more. Am I waiting long enough? OS 10.1 or 10.1.5 never takes this long to go into the installer. After I've grown impatient, I restart and then the machine reboots into the install disc. Here I see error messages that various things have failed to install. "macsales.com.lokit... did not install" is the first of a string of patch failures. However, the installer continues to install the OS. When the final reboot occurs, it freezes with a batch of squigly lines splashed horizontally across the middle of the startup apple. I hope that's enough info to glean some advice. I know I will eventually get Jaguar to install, but I grow less hopeful about the prospects of ever installing Panther. ;) |
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RE: Trouble installing 10.2 on 9500 w/G3 upgrade. |
October, 29, 2003 4:39 AM |
arington |
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Thanks for the great info guys. It turns out that my video card, while old, was just fine. My problem was a corrupt installation disc. After I replaced that, 10.2 installed like nobody's business. I'm even using 4-64MB RAM cards, still interleaved. I managed to enable the L2 Cache as well. I am very pleased. Now I just need to figure out how I'm going to upgrade to 10.2.6 or 10.2.8(anyone had luck with 10.2.8?). :D |
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RE: Trouble installing 10.2 on 9500 w/G3 upgrade. |
October, 27, 2003 1:10 AM |
smwalker |
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I believe this is the same video card that ASP saw on my 9600/300 with a g4 Sonnet 800 mhz upgrade. I was completely unable to install OSX 10.2 with an ATY card that was as long as the depth of my 9600 tower and had 8 mb of video ram on it. The 9600 I bought on eBay from the original owner did not come with onboard video, like the 7600. I took a chance and bought a Radeon pci 7000 mac video card, voila ... OSX 10.2 installed. Well, it was a little harder than that, but that ATY card was the pits and was what was preventing installation. |
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RE: Trouble installing 10.2 on 9500 w/G3 upgrade. |
October, 26, 2003 12:44 PM |
lyonsdj88 |
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I looked at ATI and they pulled it or I was mistaken, I thought they had one for the older cards but could be wrong. Don't know how you would fix this, anyone here ever use an Xclaim under 10.2??? Try another Ver. of XPF see if that helps, you May need another video card to install or run 10.2, but I could be wrong. Try to use all the ver.'s of XPF that support 10.2 and we'll see if anyone can say for sure if Xclaim cards work in 10.2. |
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RE: Trouble installing 10.2 on 9500 w/G3 upgrade. |
October, 26, 2003 8:46 AM |
arington |
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I've been searching the ATI website extensively and have had no luck finding support for my card. The site is somewhat cryptic when it comes to identifying and searching for older Mac products. I'll keep searching though. Thanks. |
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RE: Trouble installing 10.2 on 9500 w/G3 upgrade. |
October, 26, 2003 7:20 AM |
lyonsdj88 |
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Check ATI.com for a firmware update for your Xclaim. |
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correction |
October, 26, 2003 6:57 AM |
arington |
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Where I refered to OS X 10.1 and 10.1.5, I meant 10.0.3 and the 10.1 upgrade. Drrr... |