<snip PRAM battery discussion>
> 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.
Eric, I've got a PTPro 225, too with a hacked Apple driver. It does the
same thing. If I restart, it will hang on the MacOS splash screen before
the extensions start loading. My CD-R drive's light will be on steady.
Can you explain what you did to fix this? just use a different driver?
Tom
PS: I have left this on the list in case other see it and have a clone
doing the same thing. If anyone feels this should be Private e-mail, just
slap me and set me straight....
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