OK: Update & More problems.
So as you may remember in my conquest thread, I obtained another iBook to be a donor unit to get this iBook back working. I ended up taking the DVD Drive, RAM, Airport and HDD out of the other iBook and installing it in the 500MHz iBook to see if I could get it back working (took a VERY long time and LOTS of patience!). Also got a 10.4 DVD to upgrade it to Tiger. The new HDD seemed to solve the problems I had stated earlier (its another 10GB drive as well) and I was successfully running 9.2/10.1 on it.
I got the 10.4 DVD and went up upgrade it. Everything is fine, it installs fine and works great. Now the problem lies with the 10.4.11 combo update. The first time I downloaded it and tried to install it, (via Software Updater) it failed installing it. So I downloaded a copy off of Apple's website and tried it that way. It worked, the iBook restarted and it would stall at the Apple logo and spinning wheel. After 30 minutes, I hard booted it. It seemed to get further (finally got to the "Starting Mac OS X" screen) and then it would stall with the status bar at 100%. It also wouldn't recognize the trackpad and I had to plug in an external mouse to move the cursor around (even though you couldn't do anything). This morning I reinstalled 10.4, it went to restart and it gave me a kernel panic (Sys. Failure: cpu=0, code=00000001 (Corrupt stack) ). I rebooted, and I got the infamous "You need to restart your computer" message at the Apple logo screen. So for a third time, I reinstalled Mac OS X 10.4. Everything works, got through the installation and back to the desktop. I tried to install the Combo updater for 10.4.11 again (via. package from Apples site, not the software update), it goes all the way through it and at the end says "Update failed, try again". I tried to reopen the installer but it would automatically close after I open it. So I go to the apple menu and click "About this Mac" and it says I'm running 10.4.11 now. I reboot, and now I'm back to where I was, the iBook just stalls at the Apple logo and the spinning wheel. The hard drive sounds like its doing something every now and then, but not much activity.
Any suggestions on what to do from here? I ran the "Apple Hardware Diagnosis" CD, and everything passed. Somebody said earlier (based on the issues this machine had with OS 9 and no RAM installed) that the RAM soldered to the logic board could be bad, but I have no idea what to do with that. I do have another 256MB stick in there now which seems to be working fine.
Specs: 500MHz/ 320MB RAM (256+64)/ 10GB HDD/ DVD-ROM drive. The Tiger DVD is just a standard black installation DVD, just 10.4 retail.
As for the unit that was used for parts, you may ask me why I don't just use it, but it has its own set of problems as well. The case and all of its components are skewed from where the previous owner used ducktape to reassemble it and its all cracked up. I'd just swap cases but they appear to be different from the 500MHz model, and along with that the keyboard connector is broken and won't come off the logic board on the 600MHz board.
So as you may remember in my conquest thread, I obtained another iBook to be a donor unit to get this iBook back working. I ended up taking the DVD Drive, RAM, Airport and HDD out of the other iBook and installing it in the 500MHz iBook to see if I could get it back working (took a VERY long time and LOTS of patience!). Also got a 10.4 DVD to upgrade it to Tiger. The new HDD seemed to solve the problems I had stated earlier (its another 10GB drive as well) and I was successfully running 9.2/10.1 on it.
I got the 10.4 DVD and went up upgrade it. Everything is fine, it installs fine and works great. Now the problem lies with the 10.4.11 combo update. The first time I downloaded it and tried to install it, (via Software Updater) it failed installing it. So I downloaded a copy off of Apple's website and tried it that way. It worked, the iBook restarted and it would stall at the Apple logo and spinning wheel. After 30 minutes, I hard booted it. It seemed to get further (finally got to the "Starting Mac OS X" screen) and then it would stall with the status bar at 100%. It also wouldn't recognize the trackpad and I had to plug in an external mouse to move the cursor around (even though you couldn't do anything). This morning I reinstalled 10.4, it went to restart and it gave me a kernel panic (Sys. Failure: cpu=0, code=00000001 (Corrupt stack) ). I rebooted, and I got the infamous "You need to restart your computer" message at the Apple logo screen. So for a third time, I reinstalled Mac OS X 10.4. Everything works, got through the installation and back to the desktop. I tried to install the Combo updater for 10.4.11 again (via. package from Apples site, not the software update), it goes all the way through it and at the end says "Update failed, try again". I tried to reopen the installer but it would automatically close after I open it. So I go to the apple menu and click "About this Mac" and it says I'm running 10.4.11 now. I reboot, and now I'm back to where I was, the iBook just stalls at the Apple logo and the spinning wheel. The hard drive sounds like its doing something every now and then, but not much activity.
Any suggestions on what to do from here? I ran the "Apple Hardware Diagnosis" CD, and everything passed. Somebody said earlier (based on the issues this machine had with OS 9 and no RAM installed) that the RAM soldered to the logic board could be bad, but I have no idea what to do with that. I do have another 256MB stick in there now which seems to be working fine.
Specs: 500MHz/ 320MB RAM (256+64)/ 10GB HDD/ DVD-ROM drive. The Tiger DVD is just a standard black installation DVD, just 10.4 retail.
As for the unit that was used for parts, you may ask me why I don't just use it, but it has its own set of problems as well. The case and all of its components are skewed from where the previous owner used ducktape to reassemble it and its all cracked up. I'd just swap cases but they appear to be different from the 500MHz model, and along with that the keyboard connector is broken and won't come off the logic board on the 600MHz board.