At 11:51 PM +0000 3/3/2010, Dan Stobbs wrote:
eMac
memory? Does it bong? Does it pass AHT?
While I can wield a soldering iron I'm not intending to repair it but I've been playing with it as a result of email conversations with an ebayer who had one up for sale. She said that hers will surf in safe mode, so I dug mine out with a view to trying this out.
Safe Mode is a restricted/limited environment. Many drivers are not loaded. Many services are not running. It is meant as a debug/repair type mode, not for regular use.
Running as you suggest is the equivalent of driving your car on the rims, with the top down, in a thunderstorm. It will get you home, in a pinch, but you will get wet and perhaps fried on the way.
So now I have an eMac running 10.4.11, and in safe mode it seems quite happy. Trying to boot it normally, it sometimes freezes at 'Starting OSX', sometimes gets as far as a desktop, but then the mouse freezes - basically, as expected, no functionality.
Look in the system log to see what's failing. Try booting in Verbose Mode, to see how far the boot process is getting. - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
