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leopard install failed, computer wont restart

seh80

seh80

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Sep 2, 2005
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Chicago, IL USA
My imac has been giving me a lot of trouble, so I decided tonight to just wipe it out and reinstall Leopard. I backed up, and did the erase and install. After the hour installation passed, it said Chinese support failed, install failed, please restart and try again. So okay, I don't care about Chinese, but it didn't give me an option for that. I clicked the restart button it provided. And now the computer just hangs. I hear the install cd spinning...
I've tried to force restart it and restart while holding down c? No dice.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. -_-
 
miles01110 said:
Try holding Option on startup, then select the DVD.

Also, if you do a custom install you can select which langauges you want to install and which ones you don't.
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I did this, selected it, and it just goes back to hanging on the white screen with the apple and the little spinning circle (hopefully you guys know what I mean, its from the time right after the starting chimes).

The problems I was having were just application related... just wanted a fresh start after so much frustration.

Thanks for the replies!
 
Oh, and I can boot into Windows using bootcamp... so I mean, the computer isn't dead, it just doesn't want to play nice with the installation or something? >.<
 
miles01110 said:
How long did you wait?

Also, are you using a retail copy of Leopard or your system restore discs (the gray ones that came with your mac)?
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I waited for about an hour. I was using a retail copy of Leopard... but I guess I should have been using the system restore discs eh? >.>
 
It's worth at least trying the restore discs. I recently had an instance where I thought my machine was dead because it refused to boot from the retail discs, but I popped in my restore disc and it booted after a couple minutes.
 
You might try wiping the disc clean too

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The restore discs allowed me to get in there... all the way to the installation introduction. Then a little message pops down which says "Alert, This software cannot be installed on this computer." Options are restart (which just does this over and over), and startup disc.

:/ I can't imagine what the problem is...
 
miles01110 said:
Usually that happens if you're using restore discs for a different machine. Are you sure that those are the discs that came with the iMac?
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Hmm it said iMac on it, but maybe they went with my older machine. Found another set, this one doesn't say which model they go with, but giving that a try now. Thanks for the thought.
 
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