"no entry" sign on booting after upgrading hard drive

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Maury Markowitz - 19 Dec 2005 16:57 GMT

I am attempting to upgrade my roomie's Lombard machine with an older
but perfectly good 40 GB Fujitsu drive. I also have an equally older
but still working Toshiba 8GB drive. Both fail "after some time" when
the machine restarts and puts up a "no entry" sign.

Installing the drive is no problem, and once installed I can format the
drive just fine. I have tried both Extended and Extended Journaled.
After formatting I can install OS X 10.3.x perfectly, and the machine
restarts and completes the install just fine. I have then (optionally)
upgraded with all the latest patches and such off the Apple web site.
The machine continues to work perfectly -- for a while.

After some time the perfectly working setup just stops working. On
restart, the machine shows the Apple logo briefly and then puts up the
"no entry" sign. This happens with both drives, with both formats, with
or without the 'net upgrades. No, we haven't moved anything anywhere.

I can't figure this out.

Anyone have ANY ideas?

Maury

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K - 20 Dec 2005 12:25 GMT

Hello,
I am having exactly the same problem with my Pismo. I have checked the
the Fujitsu drive is ATA5 and I have an OS9 partition that works fine.
Yet OSX10.4 won't install. I have narrowed down the problem to two
possibilities:
1) ram which is not Apple, and therefore may be rejected (Tiger seems to
be especially fussy in this respect). I am trying to borrow a 256 Apple
module which is the smallest amount it needs to run.
2) The other possibility may be that the drive is not set to Master but
to Cable Select, which I am told is easy to fix, if you know how to take
out the hard drive and check.
If you find any other ideas, please let me know.

In article <1135011471.432931.264970@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,

> I am attempting to upgrade my roomie's Lombard machine with an older
> but perfectly good 40 GB Fujitsu drive. I also have an equally older
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> Maury

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John Johnson - 20 Dec 2005 14:12 GMT

> Hello,
> I am having exactly the same problem with my Pismo. I have checked the
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> be especially fussy in this respect). I am trying to borrow a 256 Apple
> module which is the smallest amount it needs to run.

Note that the RAM doesn't need to be Apple's, it just needs to meet the
spec (better than some does). Even from reputable dealers, you can get a
stick that a particular machine, or a particular OS, refuses to work
with. Anyway, this might make it easier to find RAM to test.

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John

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Maury Markowitz - 20 Dec 2005 20:46 GMT

Out of curiosity, when you say "Yet OSX10.4 won't install", do you mean
you cannot install it, or that you do install it and then have the same
sort of problem I do?

BTW, I'm going to try the "cable select" issue tonight. I have a
feeling this might be it.

Maury

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"no entry" sign on booting after upgrading hard drive