Mac G3 reboots during installation

[Derick Centeno]

If the Mac is rebooting as you say you may have a PRAM problem which
means the battery needs to be replaced.  If I understood your statement
correctly these reboots occur erratically.  So it probably has nothing
to do with what you are installing or anything else; also I would not
advise a direct comparison between problems which occur on a PC and
whatever is occuring on the Mac.  The systems are so completely
different that although theoretically they follow the general design of
CPU, HD , RAM and so on...what and how these respective systems complain
about their respective component problems can be completely misleading.

However, guessing and swapping out parts is not a solution either.  Run
TechTools Pro on the Mac OS side and get a shakedown report from
TechTools regarding the hardware and that should tell you plenty
regarding what is failing and so on.  As well as what to do about it, if
anything.


On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 11:15, Corey Mercer wrote:
> I was given a Mac G3 Blue and White Tower that had os
> 9.2 on it. In several attempts to install YDL, the mac
> reboots and not always in the same spot during
> installation. I have had this happen with PCs when the
> ram was bad, but swapping out the ram hasn't helped.
> The only other thing that I can think of is to try a
> different hard drive.
> 
> Any ideas?
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