G4 ibook complete failure after installing leopard and safari and security

Bought Leopard. installed in my g4 ibook. no problem, downloaded 10.5.2, safari and security updates. computer refuses to chime on, seems to come on, no video screen. seems to be running but no image to work with. HELP~!

Apple repair center diagnosis: not enough ram, maxed out storage.....not enough room to open. I purchased additional ram, $90, and will move several gig of hard disc storage into an external hard drive. The tech guys at the University of Arkansas computer store, rock!

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I would think that the best place to post this in the Leopard usage forum, as it probably is an issue with Leopard or needing an update from your mouse manufacturer for 10.5.
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Hello All: Installed Leopard yesterday. Everything seemed fine except that I noticed that my mail program had lost all the emails within the box. I do know that I did not back up my email prior to installing Leopard, however, I have tons of email on the Web server but none are coming through on the Mail Program.
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I found the solution for our problem. Through out the preference file for mail and relaunch mail. The pref file is named "com.apple.mail.plist" and it is located under Users>your login>Library>Preferences>com.apple.mail.plist. When you take this file out of the folder leave it on your desk top or an external drive. When you restart mail, mail will create a fresh copy of the file. BE ADVISED YOU WILL LOSE ALL OF YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT INFO LIKE SERVER NAMES, USER NAMES AND PASSWORDS! You can collect all this information BEFORE you remove the plist file and quit mail. Its all listed under Mail>Preferences>Accounts. Take screen captures of all of this information, you will need to re-enter it when you launch email for the first time after deleting the plist file.
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Good luck. The important thing is to collect as much account info as possible BEFORE you remove the file and relaunch mail. FYI if you forget to record all this information first (which I did) you can put the original plist file back in its original location and relaunch mail and collect the information.
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UNABLE TO OPEN FCP 6.02 PROJECT FILES AFTER INSTALLING LEOPARD!

**Unable to open FCP 6.02 project files after installing Leopard**. Tested and found that the files can be opened on another computer with OS 10.4.10, but not OS 10.5. Spoke to apple support many times, and have tried reinstalling FCP, but it didn't work.
Apple is now saying to erase my HD and reinstall from scratch. This presents a problem since i have software installed but no disc due to a move, (they are deep in offsite storage).
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Lynne,
There is a section in the manual on the migration tool... I don't have my machine fired up right now so can't direct you to the exact page. I think a search for migration or migrate should do it.
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1. There have been numerous reports that Quicktime 7.3 is what is killing older projects. According to one of the third party program makers Apple re-wrote Quicktime changing the null value to Zero from minus-one. I'm not a code junkie so can't vouch for this but the upshot would be, go back to Quicktime 7.1 or 7.2 not 7.3
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Hi!
I performed a Repair Permissions after installing Leopard. Firstly, I noticed that this procedure took a lot longer than before the upgrade. I also received the following error messages -
Repairing permissions for “Macintosh HD”
Warning: SUID file "usr/libexec/load_hdi" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DiskManagement.framework/Versions/A/Resources /DiskManagementTool" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DesktopServicesPriv.framework/Versions/A/Reso urces/Locum" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Install.framework/Versions/A/Resources/runner " has been modified and will not be repaired.
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Warning: SUID file "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Admin.framework/Versions/A/Resources/readconf ig" has been modified and will not be repaired.
Warning: SUID file "System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Admin.framework/Versions/A/Resources/writecon fig" has been modified and will not be repaired.
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ACL found but not expected on "Applications".
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You suggest I reinstall all of Leopard and then update to 10.5.1?
No. Download and install the standalone 10.51 updater without reinstalling the entire OS.
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Use the client version.
How will this help my problem?
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After installing Leopard, my G4 will no longer boot in OS 9.22. (Classic still works, but I need it to boot in OS 9.) Any clues about what the Leopard installer might have done to my machine that rendered OS 9 boot unusable? What can I do to fix it?

After installing Leopard, my G4 will no longer boot in OS 9.22.
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G4 Gigabit Ethernet
Boot ROM version: 4.2.8fl
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I have erased the partition that had Leopard installed on it.
I zapped the pram.
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All attempts to boot into OS 9 give me the same results - grey screen - no spinning beach ball, no icons or logos - just a blank grey screen.
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Thanks for checking in, BDAQua.
Problem solved.
In the docs that came with my Powerlogix accelerator card, I found this sentence buried:
"If you reset the PRAM, the NVRAM code for OS9 compatibility is cleared, so you will have to boot from the Firmawre Update CD and perform this process again in order to boot in OS9."
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