Ready to Reinstall 10.4.......

I have already twice installed Leopard on my dual xserve G5 and have had nothing but heartache. First, the only services I have been able to run are file sharing and time machine. Second, after first install was up and running for two days, the xserve froze and when I tried to restart I was unable to login- the login screen would just shake. So I reinstalled and again after two days it froze and I cannot login. The problems have created a tremendous disruption to my office workflow- I have ten client macs connected over ethernet and the latest extreme base station. I only upgraded because we have iphones and wanted to sync to ical and because of how easy the setup was supposed to Be (what a joke that last part is). After two weeks of tremendous patience and much wasted time, I'm ready to throw in the towel and start complaining to Apple.....Any suggestions on what's happening and any potentiaL FIXES WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED

epalermo wrote:
I have already twice installed Leopard on my dual xserve G5 and have had nothing but heartache. First, the only services I have been able to run are file sharing and time machine. Second, after first install was up and running for two days, the xserve froze and when I tried to restart I was unable to login- the login screen would just shake. So I reinstalled and again after two days it froze and I cannot login. The problems have created a tremendous disruption to my office workflow- I have ten client macs connected over ethernet and the latest extreme base station. I only upgraded because we have iphones and wanted to sync to ical and because of how easy the setup was supposed to Be (what a joke that last part is). After two weeks of tremendous patience and much wasted time, I'm ready to throw in the towel and start complaining to Apple.....Any suggestions on what's happening and any potentiaL FIXES WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED
I've lost count of how many times I've had to reinstall, and I still don't have a 100% reliable server. On every install I've done, OpenDirectory will start complaining about "Potential VM growth in DirectoryService..." after about two or three days then it stops handling authentication requests. Because it's so flakey, I've only bound one client to the server, and I leave a Terminal window sudo'd to root open on the server console at all times. Thankfully this is on my home network so I can have downtimes without someone breathing down my neck. I make my living as a Unix System Administrator, and I've been a huge fan of Apple up to now, but I can honestly say I would never try to use Leopard Server in a business environment. If Tiger Server was working for you, I'd say stick with it.

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I did not have any RAID or SATA drive in my system, actually these were disabled in BIOS. I had the similar experience though. BTW, why NF4 chiset driver is very important to install if Windows XP drivers can get the job done? Look at my link in the previous post.

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13. Wait for the Window called "Mac OSX Utilites" to pop up.
14. Choose the icon that says (Reinstall Mac OSX).
15. Everything else will be self explanatory.
16. Hope this helps. Your system will be reinstalled without any problems to the files on your computer.
This only works for Mac computers made 2012 and after. I have no knowledge of any computer systems before OSX 10.7.
My Time Capsule works perfectly. Hope yours does as well.

Mac Pro crashes on Leopard and Windows XP

Hello,
I've a quite interesting problem here!
It started with a crash this morning while running Minecraft (a 3D game): The music was still runing normally, I could still move the mouse cursor, but couldn't access any windows or applications. I couldn't use my keyboard neither. I was however able to run Mac OS X normally after this incident.
Then, later on Windows XP I ran a 3D game and Windows crashed (death blue screen).
From this moment, I couldn't start Mac OS X anymore. It goes well until the small apple and the waiting circle, but then the circle stops, I see vertical light blue lines over the screen, and black&white horizontal lines at the bottom of the screen. Then, I've got a blue screen still with the horizontal black&white lines and it stays like that.
I'm able to start Mac OS X on safe mode, but I have horizontal white lines all over the screen and my mouse cursor is a square of about 1cm.
I'm not able anymore to launch the startup disk, because, when I boot from the disk, it crashes after a while on the apple screen and I've got the same vertical light blue lines.
I was able to run the disk utility, it says everything is OK. I ran the extensive hardware tests and it also says everything is fine.
I cannot neither run Windows, I just get my screen turning off (black screen without signal).
The graphic card is a GeForce 8800 Gt.
Any idea???? => I'm ready to reinstall Mac OS X, but I need to know how since I cannot run the install disk!
Thank you really much for your help!
leo

Lack of cooling under Windows.
A graphic card dying. ATI 5770 upgrade.
Disk Utility First Aid isn't 100% fool-proof.
FBDIMMs need cooling and could be dying also (AHT won't pick that up).
Disk Warrior for Mac OS; chkdsk for XP along with:
http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=185301251
Never forget to check and try to rule out any USB or other cables, extensions, devices etc. They can cause mischief. USB keyboards, hubs included.
Not a lot that can be done under Windows to improve cooling like you can with SmcFanControl under Mac OS but there is/was "InputRemapper" that does help - a lot.

Can't Make PDF's with Acrobat 9 Pro on Windows XP Pro

I just recently installed Acrobat 9 with the CS4 suite and can't make a PDF from either my scanner or MS Word. It says that my scanner can't do "Presets" and I don't see how I can change that. And Acrobat just tries for about ten minutes to make a PDF from a Word document and then says there's an error. I can't save to the Adobe PDF printer either.
I'm about ready to reinstall Acrobat 6 so I can make PDF's - this is crazy. Is there a way that I can get Acrobat 9 to at least accept my scanner? It's an older HP 4-in-1 machine.

Maybe you misunderstand. The standard output for the Adobe PDF printer it the PDF Port. That is indeed a print to a file (a PS file) and then Distiller is activated in the background to finish converting the file to a PDF. By print to file, I mean the print-to-file check box on the print screen. That will allow you to print to a PS file, though it may have an extension of PRN. You can then open that file in Distiller to complete the conversion. If that works, then your problem is likely that AcroTray is not running in the background.
AcroTray must be active for normal printer operation. When it fails you should still be able to print-to-file and then open the file in the Distiller to complete the process. That was my point and I am not sure that is what you have done. If it is, then I apologize for beating the point to death. The print-to-file is not the same as the PDF creation.

Can't Made PDF with Acrobat 9

I just recently installed Acrobat 9 with the CS4 suite and can't make a PDF from either my scanner or MS Word. It says that my scanner can't do "Presets" and I don't see how I can change that. And Acrobat just tries for about ten minutes to make a PDF from a Word document and then says there's an error.
I'm about ready to reinstall Acrobat 6 so I can make PDF's - this is crazy. Is there a way that I can get Acrobat 9 to at least accept my scanner? It's an older HP 4-in-1 machine.

In terms of printing to the Adobe PDF printer, try to delete the pdf
printer you have and then fix the installation in Acrobat.
As far as scanner support. That is totally dependent on the driver.
Adobe seems to be moving to a model which removes all scanner support.
Scanners provide software to do their scanning and Acrobat and Photoshop
will import the resulting files. This is what always happened previously
with the interface supported by twain drivers, when there is a problem
with the twain driver, Adobe gets faulted. The easiest way to avoid the
problem is to scan separately. One more step for the user, but in the
end fewer problems for Adobe and the user.
Mike

Ready to Reinstall 10.4.......

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