Re: G3 B&W odd behaviour

[Glenn Schunemann]

Wow, this is vexing. Sometimes OS 9 could have a "memory leak" that 
would make the Finder balloon in size. I can't recall what made it do 
that or how it was addressed (been dealing with OS X for too long).

I suspect the machine did not boot off the 9.2 CD because it was not 
designed for your particular Mac. The grey system CDs that shipped with 
Macs were designed only to work on that type of Mac.

I'm curious what your original issue was that required a new logic 
board. Same symptoms? If no, what was the problem? Maybe it's related.

One option is to back up all data, write zeros to hard drive and 
restore data. Seems excessive perhaps, but I've seen writing zeros to a 
misbehaving HD fix an ambiguous issue like this more than once.

On Sunday, August 10, 2003, at 05:01 PM, Steve Bell wrote:

A G3 B&W 450 MHz rev. 1 logic board, 6 GB original HD, 256 MB RAM 
behaves
really odd. It had its logic board replaced for another problem last 
month,
now often freezes at startup. Just recently it slowed down and the 
system
was shown to be using 209 MB, odd. Diags, DiskWarrior and the dreaded 
Norton
gave the disk and system a clean bill of health. I replaced the system 
to
isolate it, and found I couldn't boot from a 9.2.1 CD. I tried another
original, then a known good working copy, no change. A 9.1 CD would 
boot. I
then installed 9.1 and updated in 2 goes to 9.2.2. During all this I 
pulled
an Adaptec 2906 and a gigabit ethernet card, it made no difference. The
firmware was also up to date. I'm wondering if I have a duff Apple 
exchange
logic board, or could there be a processor problem?

Steve Bell

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