addicted2macs
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First, let me give a little background....
Our newspaper is upgrading pretty much every mac in the building from old G3s running OS8.6-9.2 to new G5s and IMac G5s running OS 10.4.2. It's my job to get this done.
To this end, I've done a couple things. One, I've setup a handful of machines, performed software updates, installed production software, etc. Two, I've setup a couple "model" machines, on which I've used Carbon Copy Cloner to dupe into a disk image optimized for ASR (Apple Software Restore). I've taken that disk image and setup about 30 machines.
On the machines that I setup with tender, loving care and rolled out to the users, I'm seeing standard behavior.
On a few of the machines that I setup using a cloned hard drive image, I'm seeing fairly standard behavior, except at shutdown. When shutting down, I've got a few machines that will quit out of any open applications, then quit the Finder, then they sit there with a blue screen and a spinning gear.
They'll sit there indefinitely. At some point, the machine kicks its cooling system into high gear, turning itself into a miniature wind tunnel.
I have to hold the power button for a few seconds to shut the machine down, then reboot it normally. After that, things are fine.
I've run Cocktail TE on all these machines. I've also run Apple's Disk Utility to check for any problems there. Both operate normally and show no errors. I've tried making alternate disk images from alternate "model" machines and I get the same sporadic problem.
Any ideas?
Brian
Our newspaper is upgrading pretty much every mac in the building from old G3s running OS8.6-9.2 to new G5s and IMac G5s running OS 10.4.2. It's my job to get this done.
To this end, I've done a couple things. One, I've setup a handful of machines, performed software updates, installed production software, etc. Two, I've setup a couple "model" machines, on which I've used Carbon Copy Cloner to dupe into a disk image optimized for ASR (Apple Software Restore). I've taken that disk image and setup about 30 machines.
On the machines that I setup with tender, loving care and rolled out to the users, I'm seeing standard behavior.
On a few of the machines that I setup using a cloned hard drive image, I'm seeing fairly standard behavior, except at shutdown. When shutting down, I've got a few machines that will quit out of any open applications, then quit the Finder, then they sit there with a blue screen and a spinning gear.
They'll sit there indefinitely. At some point, the machine kicks its cooling system into high gear, turning itself into a miniature wind tunnel.
I have to hold the power button for a few seconds to shut the machine down, then reboot it normally. After that, things are fine.
I've run Cocktail TE on all these machines. I've also run Apple's Disk Utility to check for any problems there. Both operate normally and show no errors. I've tried making alternate disk images from alternate "model" machines and I get the same sporadic problem.
Any ideas?
Brian
