beige g3 startup CDROM startup problems

[John Slavin]

OK, I'm totally confused.  I've been having lots of problems with my 
Beige G3 relating to 10.2.8 and the screen going dark.  I had access to 
a Rage 128 video card, so before I went back to 10.2.6, I thought I'd 
try that.  At first I couldn't even get it to boot from locking up with 
the black screen, so I ended up pulling the pram battery and letting in 
sit for a while, and it then booted up.  I put the Rage 128 in and now 
it boots fine and it seems to have solved the black screen problem.  
It's a little early to tell on that though.

In the meantime, I thought I'd run Disk Warrior to clean up whatever  
had been screwed up from all the black screen freezes, but when I 
select it as the startup disk and attempt to restart, it froze during 
startup.  When I restarted, it went into 9.2.2 and then the CD wouldn't 
even appear on the desk top in 9.  If I select X as the startup, it 
will start up just fine off the hard drive, and voila, the Disk Warrior 
CD will appear on the X destop.  I thought it might be something wrong 
with the DiskWarrior disk, so I tried the Jaguar CD and it did the same 
thing-lock on startup.  So I'm thinking it must be the CDROM drive, so 
I put in a spare CDROM drive.  Guess what, it did exactly the same 
thing.  I can't boot anything off of either CDROM drive.  The original 
drive was working because I installed Jaguar just a few days ago.  What 
on earth could be causing this?

John Slavin

--
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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To unsubscribe, email:  <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/>
Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com