Big_T Posted December 4, 2009 Share Posted December 4, 2009 I placed a Snow leopard standard installation disc into the disk drive and all hell has since broken loose. The reason I put it in in the first place was not to try to install off it, but to restore it to a flash drive to try the flash drive installation method. As soon as the Disk loaded the drive: instant hard crash with the multi language "you must restart your computer" screen. Since then I have had that "you must restart your computer " crash continually and at different instances not traceable to a single action or program. The crash usually happens when opening a new program , opening the cd drive , or doing an action in a program. Also My usb ports seem to be turning off and on or not delivering the right amount of power. I have run Leopard cache cleaner to no success. And repaired permissions. Gee I really regret putting that disk into the drive but I can't understand what it spewed onto my current OS to get these results? Any ideas? Here are my specs: Running Idenb 10.5.5. Asus P6T SE i7 920 asus EAH 4850 1 gig graphics card 6 gigs of (1gig) 1333 ddr3 ram. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200948-snow-leopard-disk-wreaks-havoc-on-leopard-os/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_Jeremy Posted December 5, 2009 Share Posted December 5, 2009 Huh. I've never heard of this issue. Are you sure you weren't getting these KPs before you put the SL disk in, and are you sure you haven't installed any kexts or anything that would make these KPs occur? I just can't believe that it's been FUBARed just because you put a Snow Leopard disk in. Oh by the way for future reference, you can actually just put in the SL retail disk, open up the installer packages using show/hide invisible files and run the OSInstall.mpkg file to install it all to another drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200948-snow-leopard-disk-wreaks-havoc-on-leopard-os/#findComment-1351154 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_T Posted December 7, 2009 Author Share Posted December 7, 2009 Huh. I've never heard of this issue. Are you sure you weren't getting these KPs before you put the SL disk in, and are you sure you haven't installed any kexts or anything that would make these KPs occur? I just can't believe that it's been FUBARed just because you put a Snow Leopard disk in. Oh by the way for future reference, you can actually just put in the SL retail disk, open up the installer packages using show/hide invisible files and run the OSInstall.mpkg file to install it all to another drive. Ahhhhh I feel a bit stupid. I failed to mention that installed 3 additional Gig's of RAM. I was so occupied with the crashes and Snow leopard that I overlooked this basic possible source for trouble. I've not heard of BAD RAM in a long time am I'm still figuring if it is the OS /Motherboard hating the new RAM or just the RAM that is faulty. At any rate I don't think it was the Snow Leopard install disc that is causing the troubles. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200948-snow-leopard-disk-wreaks-havoc-on-leopard-os/#findComment-1352721 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_Jeremy Posted December 8, 2009 Share Posted December 8, 2009 Yeah it's probably the RAM. Are you sure you got the right speed/latency for your system? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200948-snow-leopard-disk-wreaks-havoc-on-leopard-os/#findComment-1354301 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big_T Posted December 12, 2009 Author Share Posted December 12, 2009 Yeah it's probably the RAM. Are you sure you got the right speed/latency for your system? Well the RAM is identical to the stuff I already have. A friend of mine said I should look to the BIOS settings and increase to the voltage. I'm trying to research now to see if that will be save. I'm not too savvy with PC s yet. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200948-snow-leopard-disk-wreaks-havoc-on-leopard-os/#findComment-1357578 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord_Jeremy Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Yeah if you set the voltage and clock speed of your RAM incorrectly, the system could fail POST and you might have difficulty resetting it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/200948-snow-leopard-disk-wreaks-havoc-on-leopard-os/#findComment-1358677 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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