On 4 March 2010 01:19, Dan <[email protected]> wrote: > At 11:51 PM +0000 3/3/2010, Dan Stobbs wrote: > >> eMac >> > > memory? > 512MB
> > Does it bong? > Yes. > > Does it pass AHT? > Didn't occur to me to try that - good one -I've got several AHT disks in a > box somewhere - almost certainly got a couple of eMac ones as I have 6 or > seven eMacs (don't ask! - two of them were bought spares/repair so I could > learn how to take them apart - one has defective IVAD cable - planning to > use cable from the totally dead one to fix that when I get space on bench > clear! > >> *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. > Fair comment, although IMHO it seems a lot more functional than I remember > 'Safe Mode' in Windoze being. Obviously (?) sound and video drivers not > being loaded - no VLC functionality but Neo Office seems to work OK. My > correspondent is using hers to surf and apparently findin it satisfactory > although without UTube functionality. . > > *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. > OK. System log looked at and saved. But that system log is from Safe boot. So I thought I'd reboot, allowing normal boot until it hung, and then restart in TDM so I could access log via my G4 lampshade. Did this and I found references to my Wacom Bamboo tablet, which I've recently installed on the G4! So I disconnected FW lead and rebooted the eMac. It got as far as the desktop this time and I moved the mouse onto the Apple menu which opened, and then froze with a spinning pinball.Turned off eMac, restarted in TDM and then connected FW lead and went drilling for logs in 1.25eMac/users/myfolder/library/logs. This got me to disk utility log. Clicking further got me to system log which I attempted to copy to the clipboard for study in textedit - I got nearly to the bottom and then it vanished. Before I try again am I looking in the right place? > > Try booting in Verbose Mode, to see how far the boot process is getting. > Tried that already before I posted. Unfortunately it doesn't stay on screen > long enough to read it before it goes to colour screen!. Is there a way of > pausing the boot process to allow me to read it? > - 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 > -- 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
