10.4.11 screwed up my computer

[Donny Jeffcoat]

i was running 10.4.9 on my quicksilver G4 until yesterday when i decided to run the update since i needed it for some software and fixes. now it wont start up most of the time and has causes a ton of problems.

first, my transparent dock is gone. second, my sound card (m-audio revolution 7.1) now doesnt work properly as the sound is fuzzy when i play music. i even tried to reintall the drivers but then i got NO SOUND and the analog out was disabled in sound preferences. i uninstalled the drivers and am left with no sound now.

its been giving me kernel panics and tells me to restart when i try to boot up. also the apple is huge as well as the restart box (looks like its on a 640x480 monitor).

when i started up, the time was gone and my internet didnt work. the network preferences didnt even allow me to check built-in ethernet. i restarted and now everything works again *knock on wood*.


is there any way i can go back to 10.4.9? also, how well does 10.5 work on PPCs? would my dual 1 GHz G4 run slower with it?

 

[robotartfashion]

I'm waiting on my first PowerMac G4 Quicksilver right now so I can't attest to Leopard on that (although that will be what I use on it)

However, I do have Leopard installed on my Powerbook G4 12" and it's got 1.24 gigs of ram and a 1.42 ghz processor and it works like a dream, so I think you'd be fine with Leopard, you exceed the minimum specs which called for the 867mhz Quicksilver at the least.

 

[super_kev]

I just installed 10.5 on a 1.25Ghz MDD G4, 1.5GB ram, and it works great for an old machine. I say go to 10.5, as it's the last OS to support PPC machines. 😎

Next time you update, you might want to consider downloading the Combo updates from Apple vs. using Software Update. I never update the OS X system via Software Update... I always download the Combo from Apple's site and go that way. So far I've never had any problems after updating across dozens of computers.

 

[Dave Braine]

is there any way i can go back to 10.4.9?

Also, make a clone of your system, then you can go back if it gets "screwed up".