A couple of quick thoughts, not that you don't know or haven't
already done this.
Norton works great on those machines but sometimes it's tricky to get
to the point where it will run through everything without error.
Generally, I would deselect all but the third task down and repeat it
until it got that right. And if Norton won't fix it, DW is more
likely to do the job. Finally, have you attempted a low level format
with the problem drive? -that might be best with a 3rd party HD appl.
Good luck Joe.
Roger
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On 4-May-09, at 10:54 AM, Joe Elliott wrote:
First I guess I should introduce myself, as I'm new to the list.
I'm Joe, and I use a 2400c, which I've had for almost 4 years. I'm
also a former Duo (280c and 2300c) user, and although I only
recently subscribed to this list, my brother used to be a member,
and I think this is probably how he put me in touch with the guy
who sold me my 2400 2005.
Anyway, my 2400 has been entirely reliable until I started
monkeying with it. about a year ago I misdiagnosed a sudden
battery failure as a bad power board, and replaced the power board
with one that failed a couple months later. D'oh. Then I took it
apart again (several times) a couple months ago to install a G3
upgrade and bigger hard drive. The first time I got the GLOD, and
no PMU/PRAM reset attempts would cure it. In hindsight I should
have just unplugged the PRAM battery when I did the upgrade. But I
ended up taking it all apart again to swap in a spare logic board,
which worked fine with my G3 upgrade--hard to say if there was
really anything wrong with my original board, or just a fluke. But
then the (upgraded) hard drive refused to boot while I was on
vacation a couple weeks ago. I was able to rescue some files via
SCSI disk mode, but nothing Norton could do would make it boot, and
when I tried to reformat it via SCSI disk mode, it just crashed the
computer it was hooked up to. So I took it apart again yesterday
to put the old hard drive back in, and ended up doing so twice,
because I initially installed the wrong hard drive. D'oh. And now
it's crashing left and right and is completely unusable. Is this
what a NewerTech G3 does without the special drivers installed?
Bad memory? I'll get Error 10s on startup, or shortly after
getting to the desktop, or a "the Finder doesn't have enough
memory" dialog I haven't seen before that includes only a restart
button, and sometimes the big smiley Mac OS face will stay on the
screen when the desktop is displayed following startup. I'm also
getting a "built-in tests have found a problem with the cache
memory" error that would worry me except that I know I've seen it
at least once before since I installed the G3 upgrade, and I'd like
to think it's just a symptom of not having their drivers installed
(but now the thing is too unstable to install the drivers). Any
suggestions?
Thanks,
Joe Elliott
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