Hi! Just last night, I encountered the first error and system crash on OS X Jaguar. I own a Wallstreet (233Mhz, 256Mb RAM) running OS 9.2.2 and OS X 10.2.8 with a DEAD PRAM. It has been working like a charm for 8 months but last night, it became problematic.
The Wallstreet was running 3 apps at the same time (MS Word, Yahoo Messenger & Mail) and I was about to transfer a 320Mb file from the Mac to my USB Flash Drive thru the USB PC Card inserted in Wallstreet. When I dragged the file the my flash drive window, the Mac froze. I had no choice but to force restart. During startup, the spinning circle freezes then a weird screen appeared. The Apple logo was gone and the middle of the screen looked distorted. I tried to boot into OS 9 thru the install CD. OS 9 booted fine but the all the USB devices connected into it doesn't work (even the mouse!). So I suspect that the USB PC Card is the culprit. In OS 9, I tried to repair the OS X Partition using Disk First Aid. It found some problems and were repaired successfully. I restarted into OS 9 then selected OS X in Startup DIsk. No luck, the same freezing occurred during startup in OS X. I also tried to boot thru the install disc of the Jaguar. But again, startup freezes even a boot from the CD. Any ideas on the problem? Nigel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
