03-23-2006, 03:19 AM
If worst comes to worst - we'll get you good to go with a new system and pickup the one that's KPing. We do full diagnostics + last step is that we do a software restore/install of the 10.3.5 with iLife. So - should be no issue.
And something else hit me...
What is the model of the Seagate you put in there? If it's one of the newer SATA II Models with that SSC feature... and the SSC wasn't disabled - I'd bet the bucks that is the problem.
If you got the Seagate from us, we disable it for customers prior to shipment standard (got to have a PC to do that btw). Even in the current G5s, there is an issue with having an SSC drive installed.
Pop out that drive - boot 10.3.5/create a quick user - run the 10.3.9 updates just as a kinda test.... Do the Tiger install on it if that all goes well... And if you have a SSC enabled drive, I bet it will all work too. But get that Seagate disconnected prior to doing those other things first. If it is SSC, it's trouble.
SSC is a SATA II feature that certain SATA controller chipsets, like the one Apple unfortunately has used, don't get along with. It was over a month after Seagate starting shipping SATA II drives (end of last year) that they put out a PC utility that allowed disabling the feature that was on by default. They did not do a Mac version.
I -THINK- I understand that pretty recently they reversed that where you need to use the utility to enable the feature due to the many compatibility issues.
This could just be it.
And something else hit me...
What is the model of the Seagate you put in there? If it's one of the newer SATA II Models with that SSC feature... and the SSC wasn't disabled - I'd bet the bucks that is the problem.
If you got the Seagate from us, we disable it for customers prior to shipment standard (got to have a PC to do that btw). Even in the current G5s, there is an issue with having an SSC drive installed.
Pop out that drive - boot 10.3.5/create a quick user - run the 10.3.9 updates just as a kinda test.... Do the Tiger install on it if that all goes well... And if you have a SSC enabled drive, I bet it will all work too. But get that Seagate disconnected prior to doing those other things first. If it is SSC, it's trouble.
SSC is a SATA II feature that certain SATA controller chipsets, like the one Apple unfortunately has used, don't get along with. It was over a month after Seagate starting shipping SATA II drives (end of last year) that they put out a PC utility that allowed disabling the feature that was on by default. They did not do a Mac version.
I -THINK- I understand that pretty recently they reversed that where you need to use the utility to enable the feature due to the many compatibility issues.
This could just be it.