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>> 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.
My 2400 did this for a while, even on cold restarts and it eventually
turned out that my finder and system file were badly fragmented - I finally
fixed the problem by optimising w/techtool pro2 after having junked half
the stuff on the drive trying to fix it... - external boot (floppy or SCSI
worked fine the whole way thru...
Dan.
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