Question for Chamorro
Chamorro said:
Have you done:
Software Update? Repair Disk Permissions? Try resetting Open Firmware, PRAM? Can also try the programmer's reset (hold the programmer's button down while booting up).
Chamorro,
Apple offered me the 3-CD UPGRADE set for my G-5 at a slight additional cost, just after buying it (the G-5) last August. At the time I was squeaky new to MAC and OS-X and never realized that I'd run into repair difficulties using the upgrade CD set. Else I might have paid a little more and gotten the standard install disk.
So... since the only version of OS-X I have that incorporates an OS-X repair program is on the 10.2 Jaguar CD that came with the comp., I must rely on that to repair permissions and perform other disk checks. But...
Something tells me it ain't doing the trick. Would the permissions venue be wrong for 10.3 using the 10.2 CD... and if so, what in your opinion should I do, then, to correct permissions in Panther? Order the Full install CD?
Plus, would you please tell me where the Programmer's button you mention is located?
I accessed a hard-to-reach switch on one occasion when an Apple tech was handling my service call. I'd run a hardware test trying to use disk 1 of the OS-X 10.3 set (thinking that surely the 10.3 Repair program would be on it) and got in trouble. The CD stuck in the SuperDrive and I couldn't get it out. Plus the hard drive was beginning to rev up like a Pratt-Whitney fanjet engine and wouldn't stop.
So I finally got scared and pulled the plug, by holding down the power button. Then I called Apple.
The tech I reached had me remove the G-5's side panel and hold down a button way back in the aft section. Doing that reset something that allowed the system to function normally again. Is that the button you refer to?
Come back...
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