>> From: zippy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> My iMac, G3, 400 with 512 Megs and 60,000 Gigs is throwing up type 3 >> errors >> at me daily when I'm using OS 9.2.6.
>It's difficult to know where to start with troubleshooting because: >1. "60,000 gigs"? Do you mean 60 Gigs? >2. There's no such thing as 9.2.6. The last version of OS 9 was 9.2.2. >> I can get it going again with a >> restart, but I can't understand why I'm suddenly getting blitzed with >> these >> type 3 (memory) errors when I have memory to burn on this machine. >> >Well, part of the problem is that in OS 9, applications do not >automatically adjust to added RAM. You have to manually increase the >RAM allocation of each app. > >However, from your description I don't think that's the problem. Did >you recently add RAM? If so, I'd say you have some bad RAM there. How >much free hard drive space do you have? >> I've run Disk Warrior 3.0, rebuilt the desk top and even ran DFA, but >> with > >no apparent improvement. >> >All very smart moves, even if they don't solve the problem -- but >what's DFA? > >I get the impression from your note that things USED to work fine, and >that this problem is relatively recent. Have you installed any programs >that run in the background? Tons of fonts lately? Added RAM lately? >IOW, what changed? _Chas_ -------------------------- Hi Charles. I should have shown it as OS 9.2.2 - got carried away there. And the problems occur when I boot up in OS 9, not working in classic. DFA is Disk First Aid. And you�re right again, it�s 60 gigs, not 60,000 - guess that sub- consciously i just like big numbers. As to installations, what seemed to precipitate this was my desire to find a PDF file for AppleWorks 6. l looked under the AW6 icon on the HD, but no PDF file. Thinking back, I thought I had seen one when I first installed AW6 about a year ago (I finally took the leap from AW5). But when I checked the AW6 install disk, no PDF file. It was after much jazzing around looking for the PDF that the problem materialized. Coincidence? (See more below.) Zippy ---------------------------------- >> From: zippy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> But looking through the disks I received when upgrading to Jaguar >> 10.2.4 >> I found that an Apple Hardware Test disk was included. It was my >> impression that the test disk applied to Jaguar only. Can it be used >> for >> OS 9 as well? >Now I'm *really* confused -- are you running OS 9.2.2, or OS X 10.2.x? > >Are the problems you're having being seen in "Classic" or when you boot >natively into OS 9? If the latter, do you see the same problems when >you run OS 9 programs in "Classic" on OS X? > >But to answer your question directly, the AHT CD doesn't care what OS >you're running -- it has its own on the CD itself, and will work from >that. Furthermore, as the name implies, it's testing HARDWARE (Ram, >Hard drive, video card etc) not software so again what version of the >OS is on the hard drive doesn't matter. >For your issue, based on what you've said so far, I would focus on the >RAM testing portion of the Apple Hardware Test. ----------------------------------- No, I haven�t been operating in OS X, just OS 9. My comments above were in response to an inquiry as to whether I had the test disk, and I did get one, but only when I upgraded OSX from 10.1.5 to 10.2. I�ve never messed with a test disk, believing it�s for technicians rather than the confused masses like myself. >From what you say, though, it would appear to be worth investigating. BTW, in a further effort to solve the error message problem, I reinstalled OS 9.2.2. Since doing it, I haven�t had a reoccurence (fingers crossed) and hope that will take care of it. BUT, after the reinstall I�ve noticed a couple of side effects. One, that the size of the screen is smaller by about a quarter inch on all sides, and two, when the cursor gets to the bottom portion of the screen, I get a vertical multicolored streak that follows the cursor as long as it stays at the bottom of the screen. Also, while the cursor will not go beyond the top or left hand parts of the screen (it just hangs up there), the cursor will disappear into the black border at the bottom and right hand sides. Plus I also get the streak when the cursor�s at the bottom. Something weird going on here. Could this be an indication of more problems to come? Thanks for any feedback. Zippy -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 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