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"You need to restart your computer....." message just after starting snow leopard instalation on clean disk

Dear All

I try to install snow leopard on clean disk of my mac pro but after some seconds of processing, before any menu appears I get error message, saying I need to restart computer. I tried all suggestions I could find, but nothing is working. Would you advise please, what may be the problem cause?

Appreciate any help.

Best Regards

Bartosz

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6)

Posted on Apr 4, 2013 12:08 PM

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Apr 4, 2013 3:50 PM in response to strbart

You need to be running 10.6.6 to 10.6.8 to get the Mac App store.

Access to the Mac App Store would let you download (or re-download) 10.7.


So, YES, a retail 10.6 DVD would solve the problem.


Do you have another Mac?

There are a few more things you could do using another Mac:


1) you could hook up another Mac in FireWire target disk mode, and clone its drive onto yours. That could get you going IF the version installed on that other Mac is a separatley Purchased version.


2) You could copy the Recovery_HD from a Mac with a separately Purchased version of 10.7, and then use it to download a copy from the Mac App store.

Apr 11, 2013 5:40 AM in response to Grant Bennet-Alder

Hi Again,


I bought DVD Sow Leopard 10.6.3 and tried to install system, but problem remains the same. after some seconds of processing on gray window with apple sign, even before any instalation menu appears, I get error and message thad I need to restart computer, exacly the same story as before 😟


Would you have any other advise please?


Bets Regards

Bartosz

Apr 11, 2013 6:40 AM in response to strbart

"A computer that cannot boot from an appropriate Full Retail DVD has a Hardware problem."


The most likely candidate is a memory error. If you have many pairs of memory modules, you could try running with only a single pair. If that does not work, a different pair.


You could try running Apple Hardware Test, but without your original DVD, that will be impossible. You could take it to an Apple Store for an evaluation (free).

"You need to restart your computer....." message just after starting snow leopard instalation on clean disk

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