I recently purchased a B&W G3/400 256 ram, zip, 12 gig HD, original CD & ultra SCSI PCI card running OS 9.2.2 to replace my tried and true Starmax 5500/200 OS 8.6. Since the purchase I added - one at at time - an 80 gig Seagate HD, USB floppy, Pioneer DVR106 CD drive and another 256 ram. I also tried an Xlr8 G4/500-533 upgrade but it was DOA and I returned it for replacement. I ran into a couple of start-up issues during the upgrades that I thought I resolved but now I'm not sure.
Prior to the 80 HD install the System Profiler showed 256 ram. Immediately after the HD install SP showed 128. Assuming I bumped one of the chips during the install, I moved both 128 chips from the 2 inside slots to the two outside slots. The SP showed 256 and continued to show it until I installed the 256 chip a week later (in one of the two vacant inside slots). The boot up after the chip install went like this - computer fan starts up, CD light cycles on then off, HD "spins up" briefly - 1 second, 2 at the most - then nothing. The computer sat with power on, meanwhile the screen hadn't done anything. It was just black. Several retries resulted in the same results so I moved the 256 chip to the other vacant inside slot and rebooted. Everything booted fine and SP showed 512 ram. I assumed I had a bad #2 slot. The same start-up problem - exactly the same - occurred when I replaced the G3 CPU with the G4 upgrade. Once the G3 was put back in start-up was normal. Since both problems were resolved when I "undid" something, I assumed that was the cause of the problem. However, last night I started the computer and it did almost the same start-up sequence except this time, the start-up made it to a gray screen with the pointer in the upper left corner before the boot stopped. A reboot went off without a hitch. In all the above mentioned cases the computer did not go through the "fix" that occurs when the computer crashes. Is there a deeper problem that I should address or are the boot issues related to the upgrades I've been making? Sorry for this long post but I want to try Panther once I have the hardware upgrades completed and want to eliminate all other problems before doing so. -- 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
