Recent content by richard48

I did as was suggested and did a clean install with all 3rd party memory and harware taken out. Tiger installed fine. I managed to get all my work backed up just about and I copied the XML and library files out of iTunes and dropped those over the ones installed by Tiger. All my old playlists...

I thought it was unlikely, but maybe just possible. Tonight I will be re-formating the HD and re-installing Tiger with the all the 3rd party stuff out of the machine. Is it true that Tiger needs 256 meg of ram to run? My Mac only came with 128 meg of Apple ram. Will Tiger install with that OK...

Thanks for the tip about the log file, I didn't know that. Someone has told me they had pretty much the same problem on their G4 500 (mine is the G4 Dual 500) and was suggesting that maybe the problem was a fundamental incompatibility with that model/generation of Mac. He couldn't get it to work...

Hi, Yes, I did have the PCI cards/extra memory in the Mac when I installed Tiger. I have since taken them out and tried a re-install. I still have the same problem. My next move is a reformat and reinstall with all the 3rd party stuff taken out if I cannot think of anything else. Do you...

Hi, I have a G4 Dual 500 with 2 internal hard-drives, 1.12gig RAM, 2 PCI cards (an Audiowerk soundcard, and a TV card). I am running OS 9 on one drive, os X on the other. I was running 10.3.9 perfectly on the slave drive. My problems started when I tried to upgrade to 10.4 on this drive...