Marta Edie <mledie at insightbb.com> wrote: > The computer will only boot up as far as showing the hard disk... No trash, > not explorer icon . ... This only happens in the morning after a night's rest. > When I turn off the machine and turn it back on right away, it boots up fine. > It also boots up fine on a restart.
I suppose this is OS9. I don't see how the length of time the computer is shut down could affect the ability to boot. I would test that theory by cold booting after a minute, 5 minutes, an hour. When Disk First Aid automatically ran after the forced shutdown, did you notice whether it was finding anything to fix? When you force a shutdown on an aborted boot, so little is open that the shutdown usually causes no problems itself, so if DFA finds anything to fix, it is likely to find the actual problem causing the boots to abort. If DFA shows nothing, maybe you need a stronger utility than Disk First Aid, which sometimes can't see or fix all problems. Everybody should have DiskWarrior and TechTool (I don't hear such good stuff about Nortons). I am not saying they will fix the problem, but until you have used them, you don't know what you have. If they can't fix the problem, then you do have a problem. I just sent my DiskWarrior and TechTool off the the eBay buyer of my G3. Allan Atherton | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
