On 2/22/04 5:46 AM Martin Pickering at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. Hi Martin- Thx so much for the advice and I will pass it on to this tech.
The "bad noise" was at start up and it was like a clicking reminding me of the disk spinning and hitting something. And it would not restart by hitting the button on the front of the tower. I do rehab. classes at the local county jail and use a program developed by a friend of mine (175 pages) and have been working with a Desktop Publisher friend who advised me to upgrade Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Adobe and Reader for pdfs as well as Word 98. This put stress on memory and 8.6 I guess and so I was advised to upgrade from 8.6 to 9.2.2, increased memory and purchase a LaCie external HD, meaning I had to do a Clean Install several times and then take hours trying to find out what extensions from the Previous System Folder I need to transfer over. Norton would get almost through with the examination and then stop. I could not afford DiskWarrior which I think Chris or someone here advised. The tech. said he has not been able to boot from a CD. But he did get it working once and downloaded to a CD some of my files but not all of them, and I don't know why. Now he says he forgets how he got it running. Does not sound to me like a Certified Apple guy. So here I sit, all my program master files are on my G3 and I have students all over the world needing documents. Luckily I have some old ones on a CD that help get me by for a while but soon I will be starting new classes at the jail and will need to print out new files etc. And I am held back at updating and professionalizing the program for it is currently a draft form. Strange thing is my Emailer never had a hitch all through this process. Boy, I sure wish they currently could make software as well as Emailer. No wonder we are so attached to it. regards, doug >>As to my G3, well I think it is caput. The Apple Cert. Tech here cannot >>get the HD up in order to transfer all my stuff to a CD and he says he >>has tried everything. I noticed it made a bad noise before it crashed >>and I took it in. It has been two weeks and he says he has tried Norton, >>DiskWarror etc. and even installed a new HD and still cannot get it >>working. Now he believes it might be a system board or something like >>that (I cannot remember the tech. term). So I don't know what to do and >>cannot afford a new computer at this point. >> >>Thank God Chris some time ago convinced me to put Email on another >>machine. >> >>regards, >>doug > >(2) I've changed the title here because my response is to the quoted >text and not to the original subject. > >A common fault is that the audio board comes loose in its socket. All >sorts of effects can be created by this - including the sound of >breaking glass at startup. I can't comment on "bad noise" unless you >describe it. I would replace the Hard Drive, make sure all cards are >fully seated, boot up and reset the PRAM then boot up from a CD and >reinstall the OS. Make sure the battery is good. > >May I respectfully ask people to reply to the list and not to cc me >direct. These are just my observations and I don't need a reply. > >Martin Pickering (UK) > >___________________________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
