on 3/2/01 9:42 AM, Mark A. Kippert at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Tom Rymes on 3/2/01 8:44 AM wrote:
>
>>> Any thoughts? Do I have a bum motherboard?
>>>
>>> TIA! -makmac
>>
>>
>> Sounds to me that your PRAM Batt is definitely dead
>>
>> Tom
>
> I was thinking that but I usually associate dead PRAM with messed up date &
> time plus certain finder settings. I've never seen it cause the death tones.
> And again, I get the tones when I restart from the special menu. If I shut
> down and then power up it seems OK.
>
> I'll just have to locate another PRAM battery to test it. I have a Duo230 I
> can pull one out of but I hate the idea of cracking open a good machine.
> Seems like I always break one more clip on bottom half.
>
> -makmac
>
>
>
You'd be surprised what weird things can happen!! I just spent TWO WEEKS
tracking down a problem where my PowerTowerPro 225 (w/ OS 8.6) would freeze
during the boot sequence, but ONLY IF I DID A RESTART!!! Worked just peachy
if I did a shut down. Been using Macs since 1985 and never had a problem
stump me like this. Finally went on MacFixIt forum after exhausting all
possibilities I could think of. (Even did a motherboard CUDA button reset
to make darn sure there was nothing corrupt in PRAM. Reseated all
connections internally. Did clean reinstalls. The works.) It turns out
that, in order to have the CD drive in this orphaned machine work, you need
to do a ResEdit hack to the Apple driver. Virtually everyone has no
problem. But... What was apparently happening was that some memory
somewhere was getting corrupted, but this wouldn't manifest itself until
after the restart. So, try doing a COLD (from no power) reboot with
extensions OFF, then try the Finder restart. Maybe, just maybe, it will
work.
(BTW, it turned out that one of the disused Macs here [I'm the only
technical person still using a Mac now. :-( ] had a fairly recent copy of
CD/DVD SpeedTools, so I'm using that. Until I upgrade enough s/w to make
sure things work when I move to that disused iMac DV SE (original version).)
- Eric.
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