You may need to remove the USB Card to boot in OS X, Boot from disk the run disk utility to repair the HDD,Also there are USB Support Downloads you may need to obtain. Not being able to see how it is acting, hinders my analysis. Hope I was of some help. On Tue 03/ 3/09 7:34 PM , Nigel Saberon [email protected] sent: 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
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