Hi.
I wonder if anyone else has this problem. I have a 500 MHz Firewire G3
Powerbook, with the hard drive partitioned, and I usually boot on the
partition (PB X) that has Mac OS X 10.1.5 installed. For several weeks
now, I have had the following problems from time to time. First,
sometimes a white rectangle appears in the middle of the desktop. It is
like a warning window, with the text missing, that overlies everything
else and can't be dismissed. About the size of the warning window that
sometimes tells me that the battery is running low, but the battery can
have plenty of juice when it appears.
Second, Word freezes, I can't move or close documents, and I can't quit
Word (Quit Word in the File menu is greyed out).
Perhaps these problems are separate. I don't know. I have had both today.
If I restarton PB X and do 'sbin/fsck -y' at start-up, it usually says
'PB X is OK'.
If I boot on the partition(PB A) with only Mac OS 9.2.2 and run Disk
First Aid, it is happy.
If I run DiskWarrior to look at PB X, it sometimes tells me that the
boot blocks are damaged. I let it repair the boot blocks, and things are
OK again for 4-5 days.
Does anyone know what is going on? What should I be doing? Do I need to
reformat my hard drive or could it be a software problem?
Mike
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