the other day my Quicksilver G4 867 crashed. it killed my hard drive with. now it crashes everytime during the install of 10.4, 10.3, and 10.2. well not so much as crashes but it says "some errors occured while installing please restart and try again".I have tried EVERYTHING to get this thing to work such as, different ram, different dvd drive, different video card, pulling all the pci cards, pulling the modem and airport cards, reseting pram, reseting nvram, disk repairs, different hdds, different install disks, different ide cables, and so on. Please help.
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how about the pram battery is it dead, have you tryed a cd rom drive instead of a dvd rom, if its a dvd disk then x out that. it sorta sounds like a cpu is about to die.
pram batt is fine. I have tried a cd-rom drive and nothing charnged. the processor is still good because if i install the os on a different computer then put the drive in the g4 it will boot and never crashes, almost like its flawless.
then its the logic board diying.cause if you tested every thing thats in the quicksilver in another mac and it all works fine than it has to be the logic board either that the pram or open firmware is corupted somehow
If i reload the firmware would it fix this? If so does anyone know how to reload firmware for a quicksilver g4?
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ok press and hold these keys as soon as you hear the start sound command ,option,o,f and it will take you to a white screen this is open firmware screen ok now type reset-nvram "press enter" type set-defaults "press enter" type reset-all "press enter" this will reset the open firmware then to be on the safe side when you here the start sound press and hold command,option,p,r threw 2-3 start sounds then release
I already tried that... thanks though. Is there anything else i can try with this before i go replacing the mobo?
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