On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 12:06 PM, Shabbyroad Media wrote:
I have a G4 running OS9.2
When I connect the machine to my network the startup takes perhaps
half-an-hour and
once near reaching the standard desktop/finder performance (such as mouse
movement) crawls along.
When I disconnect from the router the problem disappears. No other PC or Mac
or wireless AP on the router have any problems.
Lately the machine has also been giving me the floppy-disc-question-mark
icon on startup and after a minute or two finds the startup drive.
Do these point to basic underlying problem or are there simple explanations
for each ?
I've reset PRAM and rebuilt desktops.
The long time to starting disk boot can be caused by PRAM ZAP. The startup disk info is held in the PRAM and ZAPping it clears. In this state it must scan all potential boot sources, possibly including the network. Ironically it takes longer to skip a non-existant device than a device that is there but not bootable. Try setting the startup disk.
The more bootable devices like SCSI cards you have the longer the startup search takes.
The other hardware in the machine is a Digidesign TDM system (2 cards plus a
SCSI card) and a dual monitor Jeronimo J2000 Appian card.
The system has been running fine for the past 3 years.
Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway"
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