After downloading upgrades to OS10.4 and reboot installetion screen does not go away

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Val703

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I downloaded 5 upgrades out of 7 and after reboot an installation screen appeared and did not go away. It stays there more than 5 hours. I tried to switch off the computer and turn it on again, but it comes to the same state again. Can somebody tell me what actions shall i take?
Thank you.
 
What is the screen like? Installation prompt, or gray screen, or blue screen?
What mac do you have and do you remember what those 7 updates were? Were there any firmware updates?

When restarting your mac, hold down the power button for 10 seconds, you should hear a really loud beep. Then let it go, and let it start to try to boot.
Another thing to try is safe boot. After hearing the startup chime (bling) press down immediately Shift key, and keep that pressed down until you start to see loading of mac os x screen. That should take up to 2-3 minutes usually.
 
It was G4 Sawtooth Mac which I upgraded with 1.5 GHz Gigadesigns processor. The upgrades were the latest for OS 10.4, however, 10.9 package was could not be installed. I do not remember exactly what those upgrades were. They were chosen when I clicked "Software upgrade". One of them was iTunes. The screen was gray with a spinning wheel and apple. I eventually called apple support, and the specialist suggested me to take a shift button procedure you were mentioning. Well, it did not work. So he suggested then to reinstall OS since I did not have anything on the hard drive. It worked and the connection with the Internet was set. I decided to download the smallest upgrade. It worked, but after rebooting there was no connection with internet. I called Verizon and they said that it was probably a computer problem. Now I am stuck with with this problem. It is strange: there is internet connection at the end of OS installation, then it disappears. Any idea what could be the problem?
Thank you,
Valery
 
Hm.. so the net was working fine until the last updates were added? And now no program can get to the net?
What kind of net connection do you have? If it's dsl or anything else faster that you just plug to your ethernet, you'll be set, it should be recognized by default and will not need drivers,
 
I'd go about it again. Clean install 10.4.x from CD/DVD, then go to apple.com to download the 10.4.10 combo updater and install that.
 
I found my mistake. There was SCSI card installed when I was using OS 9.2 and I forgot to remove it. Now I took it out and reinstalled OS10.4 upgraded it to 10.4.9 and it works perfectly. Thank you guys.
 
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