eMac upgrading to 10.5.7


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So I bit the bullet. I 'got' my first Mac. Got it for free from work, since they were going to throw it out.

Anyways, so I installed Leopard (because that's what the sysadmin gave me), and everything went fine. I went to Software updates, and there was a few things like remote desktop, itunes, quicktime, and 10.5.7. It downloaded everything and restarted, and went fine. But, it would start to pinwheel and the system became unusable, so I restarted again. It wouldn't start, it hung at the screen with the Apple logo and the thing spinning around at the bottom. So, I reformatted and installed Leopard again. Should I install this update, and will it cause my computer to do the same thing as before? Or should I not install and skip this update?

It's an eMac, with a 1.25GHz G4, 1GB RAM, 80GB HDD, ATI Radeon 9200...

Thanks!

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I have the exact same Mac, except with a 160GB drive. No problems here. I suggest a completely clean install and start again - something might've screwed up on the way. Could be a bad sector on the HDD also?

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I recommend trying to install by downloading the entire 10.5.7 Combo update from the Apple website and running that. Then try running Software Update to pick up the last few updates.

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I have the exact same Mac, except with a 160GB drive. No problems here. I suggest a completely clean install and start again - something might've screwed up on the way. Could be a bad sector on the HDD also?
That's the thing, it was a fresh install, since the sysadmin at work formatted the drive writting zero's like 7 times I think she said.

Anyways, I'll give it one more shot today evening, hopefully there's not anything wrong with this hard drive, I hear they're a pain to replace.

I'll try downloading it from the website, then running software updates.

Thanks

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That's the thing, it was a fresh install, since the sysadmin at work formatted the drive writting zero's like 7 times I think she said.

Anyways, I'll give it one more shot today evening, hopefully there's not anything wrong with this hard drive, I hear they're a pain to replace.

I'll try downloading it from the website, then running software updates.

Thanks

Could be a bad stick of RAM too, start eliminating the hardware variables.

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Well, installed the 10.5.7 then ran the software updates, and it seems to be ok for now.

Can't imagine it being a RAM failing, since this was used for a few years at a corporate environment.

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