Hi John Start with the basics.
Unplug the external third party peripherals you don't absolutely need. You mentioned iMic, sound sticks, and the Kensington Turbo Mouse. Your kensington hub is probably not a source of a problem from a compatibility standpoint. I just hope yours is functioning correctly. If it did under OS 9, you should be OK. Boot from your OS X CD and run Disk Utility to verify your hard disk. Also, repair disk permissions while in Disk Utility. You may want to try fsck -y booting into single user mode. Avoid Nortons unless your running 7.0.3. Even then, Nortons has not been deemed a good working product under OS X. Symantec is still trying to fix their problems ever since releasing version 7. Two easy issues are IE and your restart and shutdown commands. IE preferences are set within IE but also need to agree with the settings within your Internet System Preferences. Your dialog boxes that pop up upon restart or shutdown can be bypassed by holding down the Option key. Get one thing working correctly at a time and make sure you have the latest drivers for your turbo mouse and iMic. iMic http://www.versiontracker.com/redir.fcgi/kind=1&db=mac&id=10300/ iMic_Control_1-5.sit Kensington Turbo Mouse http://www.versiontracker.com/redir.fcgi/kind=1&db=mac&id=10374/ MouseWorks_OS_X_install.dmg I am also not sure whether there were any sound issues created by 10.2.3. Maybe someone else recollects. Good Luck, John. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image.tiff Type: image/tiff Size: 7322 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20021229/7b00b94d/attachment.tiff -------------- next part -------------- Ward Oldham, MacDude MacTown 1041 Bardstown Road Louisville, KY 40204 502-485-1243 www.mactown.us On Sunday, December 29, 2002, at 06:43 AM, profile wrote: > > Group I need your help to point me in a direction to clean up several > "strange" happenings. > > > I am running OS X 10.2.3 on a dual 800. I still use OS 9 on all the > other > machines but I am wanting to migrate and felt I should begin with just > one > to see how I get along. I am having many strange things happen. > > IMic: I have plugged into this machine a Kensington 4 port hub, and > Harman/Kardon Sound Sticks. When I used the hub and the sound sticks > all > was fine. When I added the iMic later then each time I would boot the > machine there would be NO sound for I found the default "output" would > continue to change to the iMic. Each time I would change to the sound > sticks, each time it would return to the iMic on the next start. I > had to > remove the iMic. > > Kensington Turbo Mouse Pro: I added a Kensington Turbo Mouse Pro > (wireless). I downloaded the latest drivers and I found that I could > get it > working if I toyed around with where the USB plugs were attached. The > Soundsticks would not work unless they were plugged into a specific > port on > the machine. If I used the other port on the back of the box they > would not > work. If I plugged them into the back of the monitor they would not > work, > if I plugged them into the hub, they would not work. The same with the > Turbo Mouse. There was just one port that I could use on the back of > the > machine. The monitor then had to receive the keyboard and mouse from > Apple. > > Each time I would start the machine the Superdrive door would open on > booting. Every time. I went to the knowledgebase and found something > from > Apple that said that some C.D. trays would open if they had other than > an > Apple mouse or if a third party trackball was added. I removed the > trackball and the problem stopped. Any solution to this for I sure > love the > trackballs? > > Internet Explorer: I have used IE on this machine for a long while > but when > I updated to 10.2.3, and brought IE to the current version from > Microsoft's > site I now cannot change the default site that IE opens when booted. > I can > change it, but it will continually return to one that I have deleted > over > and over. I don't know what to throw away to try and get this to work > right. > > Dialogue Box: when you shut down the machine there is always a > dialogue box > that ask are you sure you want to shut down. I have looked everywhere > and I > can't find where to have this turned off. Can this be eliminated? > > Norton Systemworks: I possibly need a new C.D. for this problem, but > if so, > then the download system doesn't work as it should. I decided to run > Norton's SystemWorks 2.0 to see if this would find anything. I had > previously gotten the complete updates with "Live Update". When I > began it > said I had major problems with the b-tree structure and I should use > the > C.D. When I boot from the C.D. it went into OS 9.2 and when it ran > through > all it's bells and whistles it said all was fine. When I then booted > into > 10.2.3 from the machine and then ran Norton's again it still said > there was > the major problem. Is the only solution to this one to get a new > C.D.? If > so, then the live update sure has it's limitations in this situation. > > > This is like the ingredients of a cake. Sorry to have so much but > there > seems to be many things that don't work as you would expect. Thanks in > advance for your help. > > John Robinson > profile at aye.net > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > >
