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hello!
can anyone help me?
i cant seem to find the answer i am looking for.
i have a Lombard (333mhz) g3 powerbook. i have maxed out the RAM, and removed the 4gig hard drive and replaced with a 60 gig Hitachi. (after a lot of reading and checking that the drive would work).
this is the order of events:
1. installed OSX 10.3 successfully on my ORIGINAL 4 gig drive.
2. decided to get a bigger hard drive when i saw how much space was used.
3. put in the bigger drive and attempted to load 10.3. almost through the install and it "crashed", the computer froze, the screen graphics went into lines and i had to start over.
4. ditto a bunch of times.
5. went to my friends house to use his CD version, assuming that mine had got corrupted. same thing happened
6. we attempted to partition the HD and see if that would work (erasing correctly, making sure it was in mac-extended etc). no joy.
7. we borrowed his girlfriends indentical powerbooks DVD drive (mine is CD only) and using a 10.2 installer were able to easily install 10.2
8. attempted to then upgrade to 10.3.
9. no joy. we get 90% though the install and the screen suddenly looks like its on acid, crazy colours as if the screen was smashed, then lines and the powerbook is frozen.
so here i am with 10.2 installed, wondering why i can't get 10.3 to load?
all indications are that i didnt really need the partition, and that i dont need a firmware update..and if 10.2 is fine, can it really be the hard drive or the RAM??? i had erased and repaired as instructed.
as a rookie i am totally lost at this point.
any help appreciated.
powerbook G3 Lombard (bronze) 333 Mac OS X (10.2.x)

tigipop,
The Lombard seems to have the most problems with OSX due to memory and CPU issues. This has been an ongoing problem from Day 1 with OSX Beta.
Since you are running the max RAM of 512MB, I would remove the top 256MB module, then attempt your install. You do •NOT• have the defective microprocessor card that will not permit any memory in the top slot with any version of OSX since you can run 10.2.x with 512MB of RAM. But 10.3.x offers another potential problem with memory; some CPUs can only run a maximum of 384MB, otherwise the display will become psychedelic as you have experienced.
If removing the top 256MB allows a successful install, run it for awhile to make sure everything performs normally, then reinstall the top 256MB. If you experience screen-meltdowns, I would try a 128MB stick in the top slot.
There are no firmware updates for the Lombard nor do you have to partition the HD.
Addendum: Another symptom of the 10.3.x/too much RAM on the Lombard is an inability to run Repair Disk Permissions.
Message was edited by: jpl

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so here i am with 10.2 installed, wondering why i can't get 10.3 to load?
all indications are that i didnt really need the partition, and that i dont need a firmware update..and if 10.2 is fine, can it really be the hard drive or the RAM???
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Tigipop, sorry for not catching the part about you having already partitioned the drive, and you sound as if you have tried a few very logical options. I do know that there have been a few resent thread here about this very issue. However, just one more question before I am start to look at the HD. When you initialized the drive, did the erasing and reformatting to OS Extended (journal), did you use the Disk Utility from the install Panther CD? Also did you erase to “Zero all Data” and repair permissions before running the installer? And have you tried posting in the Powerbook section? They maybe able to give you a few more options.
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