[fishguy]

I upgraded my DP 533 to Panther. The system said that software installation was successful, but after it restarted the computer the finder bar at the top of the screen flashes and I can't open it or access any of the tabs in finder. Relaunching finder (force quit) or restarting doesn't help. Otherwise I can surf and use oter programs.

How do I force boot from a cd? i'd like to reload OSX but when I force the computer to restart (button on front of PM), it doesn't recognize the cd.

Or is there something else I can try or do?

thanks

[reader50]

Hold down the 'C' key while booting to force a boot from the CD. Also, you can hold down the 'Option' key to get a graphical choice of boot devices.

Boot from the CD and run Disk Utility to Repair Permissions. That may fix the Finder crashing, assuming it was hitting a file it required, but didn't have permission to access.

If that doesn't fix it, I've seen that effect when a corrupted bundle was on the Desktop. You can test that by logging in as another user (create another user account if need be) and see if the Finder is stable there.