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mtorbin
Mar 2, 2004, 02:25 PM
Hey all,

I inherited an old Power Mac G4 with the following stats:

G4
350 mhz
384 Mg Ram
40 gig Drive

(actually the HD is new... long story) Anyways, I installed 10.2 just fine. When I go to install 10.3, the mouse shuts down as it's dying for more RAM. I've never seen this happen before and I can't figure it out. the only thing I can think of is that the machine isn't fast enough to handle 10.3, but that's not supposed to be the case.

This happens every time. I haven't had time to switch out the keyboard and mouse because I need the ones I have for work, but I'll give it a shot tomorrow. Any ideas?

- MT


Hemingray
Mar 2, 2004, 02:39 PM
Weird... is it the standard Hockey-Puck mouse that came with the G4 originally? Or is it a 3rd party mouse? Have you tried unplugging and re-plugging in the mouse? Plugging it in directly to the USB port in back?
mtorbin
Mar 2, 2004, 03:58 PM
Weird... is it the standard Hockey-Puck mouse that came with the G4 originally? Or is it a 3rd party mouse? Have you tried unplugging and re-plugging in the mouse? Plugging it in directly to the USB port in back?

Yeah, it's the old hockey puck. Crazy thing is, I'm running updates now and it works fine. The ONLY thing I could think of is that instead of launching the software and having it restart, I should restart myself and hold down the C key, but I'm not sure what's up with that. I even plugged in my new optical that's out now (made by Apple) and that had no effect. The weird thing was the the optical light didn't even come on (as if the keyboard didn't even work).

This is a strange one indeed...

- MT
Macmaniac
Mar 2, 2004, 08:32 PM
Perhaps you need a firmware update, that might help things.
mtorbin
Mar 3, 2004, 06:55 AM
Perhaps you need a firmware update, that might help things.

Someone else suggested that and when I went to the Apple site, I couldn't find it. Could you point me in the right direction?

- MT
varmit
Mar 3, 2004, 08:21 AM
Which I think you said you did, when you do an update, the firm where will get downloaded. All you need to do is read the directions and do what it says. simple as that.