Please forgive the length of this message, but I want to give as much info as possible to see if anyone can help with this problem.
In August, I was out of town for almost two weeks. When I got back from my trip, I turned on my Beige G3 266 MT, OS 9.1. The dialog box appeared that said there was a system error and to restart with extensions turned off. After several more attempts to start up, I had to boot from the system CD. I ran Disk First Aid and TechTools Pro and neither detected a problem. I chose my hard drive as the startup disk and rebooted. I rebuilt the desktop and everything ran fine until recently. BTW, my G3 is a little over 4 years old and is used for internet, word processing, scanning images and PhotoShop. Also, all of my data is already backed up. I was out of town for 8 days and got back last week. I tried to boot up my G3 and got the dialog box saying there was a system error - address error. I tried rebooting with extensions off and it took over 45 minutes for the computer to boot up. When I tried to open a folder it would take 5-10 minutes before the folder would open. I ran Disk First Aid and got the message, "Unable to read from disk". I restarted the computer and this time the flashing question mark appeared. This time I rebooted from the TechTools CD and ran the diagnostics. The Surface Scan test showed a problem and and I selected to repair it. this is the message I received from the TechTools scan: "TechTool found one or more bad blocks on your media during the surface scan test. These locations have been mapped out so that your computer does not attempt to use these locations in the future. Left uncorrected these bad blocks could cause unreliable drive performance as well as data loss." Also, when it tested volume structures, I got this message: "TechTools was unable to rebuild the directory on the selected volume. You can use the options on "File Recovery" panel to recover files from the volume." Anyone have any ideas as to what the problem is? I can now only start up the computer with a bootable CD. -- Regards, Les -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:g-list@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:g-list-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:g-list-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
