Strange behavior after installing Tiger

dgrussell · Post by **dgrussell** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 6:57 pm

I recently upgraded to Tiger (10.4.2 from 10.2.

and have encountered a few strange things. To upgrade I bought a new HD and did a clean install. I took my old drive and moved it to another slot (I tried different configs....it is currently the master on the 66 bus ahead of a third drive).

I have had some intermittent weirdness but one thing that is consistent happens after a kernel panic or hard reboot. After hard rebooting it takes about 2 and a half minutes for the original drive to shw up on the desktop. When the computer boots all the other drives (new HD, backup HD and firewire HD) show up immediately but the drive that I used to use as my System takes a while. If I restart after this it shows up with the others on boot. The drive started as the slave on the 100 bus, was moved to be the slave on the 66 bus and is now the master on the 66 bus but still acts the same. It seems to function fine but I am concerned this may lead to a bigger problem.

Also, my Internet seems jerky. When I installed Tiger I had it copy my settings from 10.2.8 and tests show my DL spped to be correct but some things (primarily flash) are jerky when they play. I really have no idea where to even start.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!!!
David

dgrussell · Post by **dgrussell** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 7:00 pm

System stats:

G4 1.25GHz Dual (MDD)
1 GB Ram
OSX 10.4.2
DP 4.6
2408 original

bhagert · Post by **bhagert** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 8:22 pm

I usually format my drives from time to time and I have found that this is good for me. Saying that you should repair permissions is obvious but I have tried to repair permissions running disc tool from the CD. It actually could repair permissions that I could not from within the admin account. I have also turned dashboard off in the terminal and that was good for DP use. All the file sharing is also off as well as the software firewall.
Finally I ran Onyx maintenance scripts and optimized the system. From time to time I reset the nvram in the open firmware but I don't know if this really does anything.

I then have an "office" account with all the candy turned on.

This is what I do.

dgrussell · Post by **dgrussell** » Mon Oct 10, 2005 11:57 pm

I have just turned off Dashboard and turned off the software firewall...hopefully that will help.... Thanks for the thoughts. The candy is tempting isnt it?

David

zerosin · Post by **zerosin** » Tue Oct 11, 2005 7:43 pm

With every new OS update, tolerance for RAM get tighter. You may have RAM that the OS does not like. Make sure your drives are set correctly as slave and master and refrain from using cable select. Disconnect all external devices and remove all PCI cards and see of the problem still exists.

The old drive may have some directory problems. Have you repaired permissions on the new OS?

dgrussell · Post by **dgrussell** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 3:44 am

I havent disconnected eveything to check mainly because the computer has to crash first for the drive to take so long to show up. I have made sure the master/slave jumpers are set properly and have repaired permissions. I am wondering if it might be the RAM now that you mention it. I am getting kernal panics and majo crashes up to 3 or 4 times a day. using iDVD 5 REALLY bogs down the computer. I will watch the RAM....thanks!
David

jonathang333 · Post by **jonathang333** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 7:54 pm

repaired permissions - what does that do?