I may be wrong, but Open Firmware is something you can do in X not 9.
To paraphrase the adage, many many problems begin with memory. Try
swapping out what's in with known working memory or take out one of
the sticks, to see if it boots. You would need to play around with
this, but it could be the heart of the problem.
HTH,
J Sanderson
On 2 Jan 2006, at 21:02, Kristina wrote:
Thanks for the help Caleb,
I found the instructions for Open firmware
<snip>
Using Open Firmware.... Holding down COMMAND + OPTION + O + F
used the reset button too and it did boot but did NOT go to grey
screen or
a prompt to reset-all...
hmmm did I do that right?
It gave the usual disk aid notice...and then this ALARMING one!
"Built in memory test has detected a problem.
Please contact a service technician for advice."
clicked OK...and everything looked "normal".
I was able to reboot using the other partition which holds disk
warrior
and ran disk warrior.
When I went to change it back to the main brain.... it locked
up...and a
force restart takes me back to black.
service technicians?... any advice?
Kristina
near Chicago
Kristina,
Try booting into Open Firmware and typing "reset-all", I believe. I'm
not completely sure, at this rate, but the info is on Apple's site, I
think. Also, if you have the original CD that came with the 'Book,
you
can try booting from that. Email me offlist if you don't have it, and
I'll see what I can dig up.
Hope this helps,
Caleb
On Monday, Jan 2, 2006, at 12:07 America/Chicago, Kristina wrote:
I put it [G3-OS9.2] to sleep last night...was working fine
except sometimes the keyboard doesn't respond...I was thinking it
might need
replaced, I've had to replace everything else...why not!
This morning I turned it on, went to get coffee and when I came back
it was
at the desktop and frozen. Great!
I force quit control+apple+ on/off button nothing
I try to rebuild the destop with extensions off...and half way
thru the
startup list of extensions it froze
Now I can't wake it up
I tried reset button...the first time it came opened to the G3
powerbook
Icon wallpaper thingy and dialog box saying your computer did not
shut
down
properly Disk Aid will perform necessary repairs...
when I clicked <done> it said that Disk Aid had performed an
illegal
operation and is interfering with start up ...or something like
that.
I tried to start up from a CD w Disk Warrior...I had to pop out
the CD
drive
and pin open the drive to load the CD.
reset button to start up from CD
black as tar.
I hear fan/processor /something going on.
The HD is partitioned so there is a system folder on two of the
partitions...one has disk warrior on it...the other one is my main
brain.
Kristina
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