Cross-Hardware Installation

In theory is it possible to install the version of OS 10.4 that comes with a PowerBook into a G5 Desktop PowerPC, or are the discs that come with these computers "computer specific"?
Thanks in advance.

...and the license agreement allows you to only use them with the Mac that they shipped with.

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MSI Computer Hardware Installation Guide

COMPUTER HARDWARE SETUP GUIDE FOR NEW SYSTEM BUILDERS(or those having problems)
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Table of Contents
Posts 1-4: Complete Hardware Installation Overview
Post 5: Connecting a MSI KT3 Ultra to USB ports on the front of a computer case. Plus, a link to AMD's Heatsink and Fan Installation Guide
*** Moderators: Please feel free to edit and add to this post as new or better information becomes avaialble. I know some people get upset if their posts are edited. I just wanted you folks to know I dont mind ***
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Complete Hardware Installation Overview
- written by: Mr Steveo
Before I begin: Many experienced users have their own methods and tricks of the trade. This Guide is not intended to say other methods are not as good. Some experienced users may have better methods or find some steps unnecessary. This guide is simply based on a method that has worked many times for me.
If at any point you get errors or encounter a problem. Stop what you¡¦re dong, call your vendor or come into the forum and ask for help.
This guide also assumes you have done some preliminary research. Please be sure you have verified your hardware is compatible with the operating system you intend to install. Also be sure that ONE of the following exists:
A. Your Power Supply is approved for your CPU by AMD. Your vendor certifies your RAM will work with the motherboard. If uncertain, visit http://www.amd.com and contact your vendor
B. Your vendor certifies your Power Supply and RAM will work with your CPU and motherboard
C. An experienced forum user can tell you from personal experience that he has a stable system using the exact brand and model number of your power supply and RAM

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INSTALLING THE VIDEO CARD, FLOPPY AND POWERING UP
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31. Now its time to install your AGP or PCI video card. If you’re using an AGP card be sure the grey retention pin that sits at the end of the AGP slot is in the bent down position where it almost touches the motherboard. When moving this retention clip, be careful not to bump that capacitor right near the clip. Ya don’t want to damage it
32. Firmly insert the AGP card into the slot until it’s fully inserted and the retention clip has popped up. If using a PCI video card be sure to install it in the “top” PCI slot (PCI slot1) Be sure the card is standing straight up in the case and then screw the card firmly into the case
33. Stand the case up vertically and using a plastic twist tie or rubber bands be sure the remaining PSU power connectors are not going to fall into the case and dangle against the motherboard
34. Attach your monitor, mouse (PS/2 preferably), and keyboard. Then plug in the power to your monitor and the power cord to the computer.
35. Cross your fingers and press the power button to start it up
36. As soon as the computer powers up, immediately start pressing the delete key to enter the BIOS set up
37. Now that you’re in the BIOS set up, go to hardware monitor and watch the CPU temp. While sitting at the BIOS screen the temp should never exceed the mid 40 degrees worst case with an Athlon XP. Your temps probably will be lower.
38. Now as frustrating as this step is just let the computer sit there for 20 minutes and do nothing. Many users feel this step is unnecessary but it’s a personal preference of mine. The idea is to let the CPU get sufficiently warm and make a firm bond and seal with the thermal compound or grease. Plus since it's the first time these components have been exposed to an electrical current, 20 minutes of settling in isn’t a bad idea before shutting down or rebooting. Go grab a cup of coffee, look inside the case and be sure your CPU fan is spinning etc Whatever floats your boat.
39. If at any point in that 20 minutes your CPU temps exceed say 50 degrees for an Athlon XP or 60 degrees for a regular Athlon, shut down immediately and inspect your HSF and thermal compound installation. If unsure take the board in to your vendor for testing
40. If after 20 minutes everything is ok, you now have a few choices to make. Now is an excellent time to flash your BIOS before you get all your components installed. Also if you plan on using a CPU fan that does not attach to the motherboard this is the best time to flash to the latest BIOS. If you’re not familiar with how to flash your BIOS – don’t. Either wait until you get help from people in the forum, or take the board to your vendor and they should be happy to flash it for you. I can tell you firmly that the BIOS v3.2, while not perfect, is quite stable and adequate for most set ups
41. Now regardless of how you proceed now is a good time to make some settings in the BIOS. Go to the main page and load the letup defaults. Then go in and set your date and time. Also be sure that BIOS Flash protection is set to “Disabled” Also be sure “Clear NVRAM is set to Yes” Finally if you have an Athlon XP or any other processor that supports a 266 FSB, then you also want to go into Hardware monitor and set CPU/FSB to 133 BE SURE THIS IS SET PROPERLY PRIOR TO ANY BIOS FLASH
42. Now choose to Exit saving changes
43. The computer will reboot and stop at a prompt telling you to insert a floppy disk
44. You can now power down wait 60 seconds and pop in the BIOS flash disk. Or if you’re not flashing, proceed to the next step
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ATTATCHING DRIVES
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Assuming everything has gone smoothly so far, you¡¦re ready to attach your hardware
If you¡¦re planning on setting up RAID this will be covered in a later setup guide in a few days. If you need to set it up now, look for me or any experienced user in the forum and ask for help in setting up your jumpers drives, cables and the RAID BIOS If you're not setting up RAID, proceed with this guide
45. Using either a regular IDE cable or one of the ATA/100 IDE cables that came with your motherboard, locate the end of the cable with the black connector. Plug this into your DVD or CDROM drive. On the back of your CDROM or DVD drive be sure the jumper is in the Master position.
46. If you also have a CDRW drive or another CDROM drive attach this to the middle grey connector on the IDE cable. Be sure this drive has its jumper set as Slave. NOTE: if in your configuration you are planning on having a ZIP Drive. You will want to attach the zip drive to this connector, not the CDRW drive. Because ZIP drives are slowly being phased out and because ZIP drives are known to have problems with some operating systems and with some VIA chipsets, I try to avoid using these types of drives. CDRW drives work just fine. However if you must have a ZIP drive place it on this grey connector and jumper the ZIP drive as slave
47. ONLY AFTER the ribbons are attached to the drives should you attach the cable to the motherboard. Take the remaining blue connector on the IDE cable and attach it to the White (Secondary IDE) connector on the motherboard. Be sure to use the method you used with your fingers and thumbs when installing the floppy cable to the motherboard to avoid bending the board
48. Find the other ATA/100 cable that came with your motherboard and locate the black connector on that cable. Attach the black connector to your main hard drive. Set the jumper on the hard drive as Master if you¡¦re going to install a second slave hard drive. Jumper it as Master or Cable Select if it¡¦s a stand alone drive. The only exception is if you have a Western Digital Hard Drive. If you have a WD and its going to be a stand alone drive, the proper jumper setting is Single Refer to the drives owners manual for how to jumper the drive as Single for a Western Digital
49. If you have a slave hard drive, jumper it as slave and attach the middle grey IDE connector. If because of a Zip drive you also have a CDRW drive still to install you can put it as the slave drive on this cable. But be warned that having the hard drive share the cable with an optical or ZIP drive will drastically reduce your hard drives performance (another reason to avoid ZIP drives in a standard configuration)
50. Attach the remaining blue connector to the motherboards blue, non RAID IDE connector (Primary IDE) Remember to use your fingers and thumbs to avoid bending the board
51. ONLY AFTER all the IDE cables are attached should you attach the power cables from the power supply. Now that all the drives are attached go ahead and pop in those power cables.
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INSTALLING THE PCI CARDS
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52. For your very first full boot up and first attempt installing the operating system, it¡¦s recommended to start with the least PCI cards necessary to avoid any errors. There is an exception to this. Because of how the Windows 2000 and Windows XP operating systems heavily depend on networking components, you might want to install any Ethernet (NIC) card you have now.
53. Network cards work best and will install fine in either PCI Slot 2, Slot3 or Slot 4 on this particular motherboard. For many reasons here¡¦s what I suggest for now. If you have a Sound Blaster series sound card then install the NIC in Slot 2 or Slot 4. If you have no sound card or a non Sound Blaster card, install your NIC in Slot 3
54. For now do not install any other PCI cards.
55. Now its time to close up the case, power up and install your operating system
NOTE: Assuming you have no problems installing your operating system you can then add in the remaining PCI cards one at a time. Please refer to my Guide on PCI SLOTs which is after my GUIDE on BIOS settings
Also note that many people have been asking for help on the proper way to install their operating systems, critical updates, VIA drivers, and video and sound card drivers. For now if you need help ask in the forum. I will try to have a guide for Win 9X/ME and another for Windows 2000 and a third for Windows XP available in the forum soon.
CONRATULATIONS!!!!!

Cross hardware platform migration with Oracle VM

This is a cross hardware platform migration question. If I have Oracle on Solaris SPARC (64 bit) running in LDOM (currently known as Oracle VM for SPARC) and I want to convert this virtual machine to another virtual machine on Oracle VM Server 2.2 x86, is it possible?

No. this isn't possible - there are too many variables.

ODS activation failures after new hardware installation..urgent

Hi All,
I am working in PRD.There are 10 process chains which i need to monitor daily.Daily ODS activation fails in 4 of the 10 chains.The error message for two of the failures are,
Task 0040 during SID specification without confirmation
and for another process it is showing "DBIF_RSQL_SQL_ERROR" error.
manually I am doing steps and the activation is successful.These type of errors we are getting after the new hardware installation.
Could anyone let me know are there any patches to be applied inorder to avoid such type of errors.
Please advice me what to do.
Thanks,
Manjula

What is the patch your currently on at the moment.
It could also be some of the settings in RZ11 have been changed. You need to work with your basis people to resolve this.
DBIF_RSQL_SQL_ERROR is a common problem and usually due to not enough processor's available and the database gettings into a knot.
Check SM21 and ST22 for the more information on the issue.

Problem during hardware installation.

Hi, I already have a 1st generation Ipod Nano which works fine. Just purchased a new 2nd generation Ipod Nano for my daughter and when connected to USB, get a message saying "A problem occurred during hardware installation. Your new hardware might not work properly". Had this problem before so returned the Ipod and Apple sent a new one out to me. Still the same problem. Does anyone know the answer?

"A problem occurred during hardware installation. Your new hardware might not work properly".
hmmmm. what model of Dell do you have, Wenditha? (thinking here that we should check to see if there are any relevant updates to your System available for your model at Dell.)

Cross-platform installs or upgrades

If I understand the license agreement correctly (and correct
me if I'm wrong), I'm able to install my copy of DW (and the rest
of the Suite) on both my PC and on my laptop, provided I don't use
them both at the same time. That's also provided that both my PC
and my laptop are on the same platform. I have a Windows PC and a
Mac laptop, so I'm out of luck. It seems a little unfair, and I
know there must be some kind of anti-piracy thing that they don't
allow this, but is there any consideration for changing this so us
legitimate users can do cross-platform installs without having to
purchase a second copy of the suite?

easthollow wrote:
> I have a
> Windows PC and a Mac laptop, so I'm out of luck. It
seems a little unfair, and
> I know there must be some kind of anti-piracy thing that
they don't allow this,
> but is there any consideration for changing this so us
legitimate users can do
> cross-platform installs without having to purchase a
second copy of the suite?
Your understanding of the licence agreement is correct. The
question of
a dual platform licence is raised in this forum on a regular
basis
because many indpendent developers are in the same situation.
However,
the answer is no - the licence is for one operating system
only.
At the moment, the Studio 8 CD-ROM contains both Mac and
Windows
versions, but I suspect that this may not always be the case.
Adobe
software is sold on separate disks.
I raised the question of dual licensing with an Adobe
executive at Adobe
Live in London a few months ago. He was sympathetic to the
problems of
an individual developer, but from the business point of view
the
situation was clear. It costs twice as much to create
programs for both
Windows and OS X, so if you want to use it on both systems,
you must
contribute towards both sets of development costs.
If you need to run the Windows version on your Mac, you can
always use
Virtual PC or one of the dual boot methods.
David Powers
Adobe Community Expert
Author, "Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8" (friends of ED)
http://foundationphp.com/

"Problem occured during hardware installation...

new hardware may not work"
Its driving me MAD!! I have managed to load and use my iPod successfully on my other PC, but have had no joy with my new laptop.
I have installed iTunes, and updated to the most up to date version.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled iTunes several times, but each time when I connect the iPod to the laptop it the Installation Wizard flashes up for a split second and then comes up with the message "a problem has occured during hardware installation. Your new hardware may not work properly"
Any ideas?

hmmmmm.
perhaps let's try disabling the high speed interfaces on the laptop's USB connections. although the following document is on Toshibas, try the technique from it on your Dell:
iPod not recognized correctly on Toshiba laptop
(don't do a restore at this stage. we're just checking to see if we can get a connection with the high-speed interfaces disabled.)

Computer Hardware Installation?

I am interested in buying some new peices of hardware for my computer such as a new graphics card, power supply, and a new computer case. I don't know much about buiding a computer though. I am wondering since i have the Geek Squad Tech Support 1 year plan if that means they will install all the hardware for free, or even at all. Since im getting a new case i would need them to move everything from my old computer to my new.

Tech support covers : One year of unlimited in-store help, online chats, remote and phone support Includes virus removal, full diagnostics and repair of operating system and software issues for up to three computing devices
So... no hardware installation is not covered from that description. I'd contact your local store to get pricing from them.
If you like my post, or solution to your issue/question, go ahead and click on the little star by my name and/or accept the post as the Solution. It makes me happy.
I'm NOT an employee of Best Buy, or Geek Squad, though I did work as an Agent for a year 5 years ago. None of my posts are to be taken as the official stance that Best Buy will take on your situation. My advice is just that, advice.
Unfortunately, that's the bad luck of any electronic, there's going to be bad Apples... wait that's a horrible pun.

Hardware installation guide

hi all.
thanks for the help in advance.
just got my hands on an hp g60-231wm laptop/notebook. would like to find the hardware installation guide for it. seems the power module has come louse from the board and i want to tag it back down but would like to know how to take it apart.
thanks again for your help.
Chris
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I am linking the Maintenance and Service guide for your laptop from the HP site. It gives step by step instructions on how to take it apart.
HP g60 Maintenance and Service Guide

Hardware installation wizard problem on 6280

Can somebody please help me? I'm trying to install the PC suite and cable drivers (both genuine nokia) on my PC and everytime a box pops up telling me I must close the 'hardware installation wizard' before they will install. I'm haven't installed anything on my PC for quite a while, but surely I need the installation wizard to install the software/hardware?

What is your system (Windows Xp or?), Where do you open this wizard ?
Why don't you just download the Nokia Pc Suite from www.nokia.com, doubleclick the package and let Pc Suite install itself ? YOu don't need separate drivers, all is included in PC Suite
Message Edited by manta on 27-Jun-2006
06:31 PM
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06:33 PM
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06:34 PM

Audigy 2 ZS hardware installs OK but not recognized by applicatio

Hi,
Installation of an Audigy 2 ZS on my (WinXP SP2) PC is driving me nuts! The hardware, drivers and application software all seem to install OK. But when I try to use the card, I get the following error message:
"The audio device supported by this application is not detected. The application will exit."
There are no problems indicated in the Device Manager and good sound is generated by the card from the Welcome screen so it's not hardware related. I've tried uninstalling and re-installing the drivers and applications several times and I have used registry washers to eliminate all past traces of the sound card from the registry - still no success.
There seems to be numerous reports of this sort of issue in these forums with SP2 so there must be some sort of fundamental compatibility issue with this card.
My system is: Gigabyte 7N400Pro2 MB, Athlon 200+, 52MB RAM, ATI 9500, Leadtek Winfast XP2000TV Expert, and (at the moment) Audigy 2ZS.
I had heard that there was a conflict with some of the Winfast drivers and so I've uninstalled this and ran the ENUM fix from Microsoft - but still no success with the Audigy card.
Anybody got any suggestions as to how to proceed or should I be thinking of buying a different sound card?
Thanks
Andy T.

Many apologies - this whole issue was my fault.
When installing the drivers, the user is presented with three options to choose the soundcard physically installed. You have to read these options VERY CAREFULLY or else (like me) you may choose the wrong one and the card won't work - Duh!
I really did want to re-install Windows anyway
Thanks
Andy T.

Hardware installation

i recently downloaded the new itunes and before i did i could connect my ipod and itunes would pop up and sync my ipod automatically. now i connect my ipod and a window comes up saying
the software you are installing for this hardware
apple ipod USB driver
has not passed windows logo testing to verify its compatibility with windows XP
continuing your installaton of ths software may impair or destabilize the correct operation of your system either immediately or in the future. Microsoft strongly recommends that you stop this installation now and contact the hardware vendor for software that has passed windows logo testing
continue anyway STOP installation
when i click continue anyway a window pops up that says
files needed
the file 'usbaapl.sys' on Mobile Device Setup Disk s needed
Type the path where the fileis located, and then clck OK
i dont know what to do or what this is talking about but itunes will not let me sync my ipod!
...some update lol
please help me out
thanks

OK I am probably not going to be able to help then.
But out of interst how are you installing iTunes? Are you downloading the installer and running it from your PC or are you running it from your browser?
If you saved it on your PC did you save it somewhere simple like your desktop? Some paths may upset the installer.
You could check the Windows error logs to see if there is anything useful. Also it is possible to get iTunes to generate an install log, howver I have no experince interpreting it. May be there will be clue what is going on there.
Open a cmd Window – Start>>RUN CMD
Drag iTunesSetup.exe to command window to get full path
Then after it type a space then:
/l*v C:\log.txt
The installer will create a log file c:\log.txt

Hardware & Installation of XI3.0 SP16

Hi All,
I have following querys:-
1) Can we install XI 3.0 on AS/400 OS Server???? If possible please give me the name of installation guide & Name of XI version to be purchase ( SAP XI Release 3.0 or SAP XI Release 3.0 SR1 or any other)?????
If it is not possible or if it is difficult then also tell me, whether I move to Windows NT OS.??????
2) Can we install XI 3.0 & SAP R/3 4.6 on same sandbox(DEV : 26 GB RAM, 5 TB HDD)
If possible, What we have to do, please guide me with steps?????? Any link for help???
3) My last XI project was on Windows NT OS .What is the difference & difficulties I may face in this new project..?????
Regards

Hi Umesh,
1. Can we install XI 3.0 on AS/400 OS Server????
Yes you can. With Operating system having OS/400 and database DB2/400 V5R2/3/4 (DB: 32 bit only)
https://websmp202.sap-ag.de/~form/handler?_APP=00200682500000002212&_EVENT=DISPLAY
2. Can we install XI 3.0 & SAP R/3 4.6 on same sandbox(DEV : 26 GB RAM, 5 TB HDD). If possible, What we have to do, please guide me with steps??????
Yes you can. You can go through the installation document.
https://websmp202.sap-ag.de/~sapidb/011000358700009389172004E.PDF
3. My last XI project was on Windows NT OS .What is the difference & difficulties I may face in this new project..?????
Nothing! (You will not be aware of which OS the server runs since you open IR and ID through webstart and/or SLD and/or SapGUI?
I hope this helps you
Best regards,
Felix

Re: Java Media Framework cross platform installation / setup on Mac / UNIX

JMF cross-platform doesn't support everything that the native performance pack versions support. I found this out the hard way too because pure Java JMF can't play AVI's from my digital camera but the Win32 enhanced JMF can. In particular, with my case pure Java JMF doesn't support all the frame rates that the others do.
I know Apple has been releasing some of the other APIs lately, like JAI. We might want to check over at apple.com and see if they have a native JMF impl.

Hi,
JMF work well on OS(32bits) and Java(32bits)
Octavian.
Edited by: user7659448 on Feb 28, 2012 10:42 AM

Old data retrieval cross hardware platforms

Oracle 11g
A general question.
If we migrate over a period of time from 9i running on Solaris to having an 11g database on Linux with the same database block, how easy would be to retrieve the old taped data and query it from 9i?
Do we need to maintain an Oracle database (say 11g) on Solaris to speed up the import process? What are the best options to perform this in an efficient manner?
FYI, we are intending to move to a cloud like environment on Linux and we have been traditionally running Oracle on Solaris.
Thanks

Hi Kiraly,
I had considered that at first, when the eMac still had Panther installed (a while back).
Unfortunately, besides not owning a FireWire connector cable to connect it to my iMac, I didn't particularly want to lug that heavy eMac back up two flights of stairs...
I realized that the weight of install/restore CDs is about 1/1,000,000 that of the eMac... and that won out.
Steve

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