Thanks, Jerry. On your assuming:
1. I got the sentence the first time! Yes, there is plenty of space, probably about 30%. 2. Maybe I should take the "extra' RAM chips out and try all these things again. 3. DW is the OS X version, the latest and greatest. I tried the button and the battery suggestions without results. I took out the 2 RAM cards one at a time, then both, all to no effect. To answer Bill's question ( but you do have the system files installed there now, right?), no, I do not. I was trying to boot up from the Tiger DVD or even the G4 OS 9 Software Install and Restore CDs that came with the machine. I don't know how to make a bootable external drive with making a clone and thereby losing all of my data. I would presumably use the external drive to boot up and then, hopefully, install Tiger on the good drive and go from there. BTW, I get the digest version of this list, so if you reply, please cc me off list directly. I really appreciate your help, guys! Guess I'm headed to the shop. Robert On 7/13/05 5:15 PM, "macgroup-digest" <owner-macgroup-digest at erdos.math.louisville.edu> emailed: > Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:01:48 -0400 > From: Jerry Yeager <jerry at browseryshop.com> > Subject: Re: MacGroup: Hang down your head, Tom Foolery > > This one seems to be almost into the "expensive stage". Assuming: > > 1) The now good master hard drive does have at least a few GB of free > space (if it is actually full or close to it, then problem m ay be > solved, OS-X needs some space on the drive for swap files, if it cannot > find free space, start-up will be slow or not happen). <-- Feel free > to correct the grammar of the sentence beginning ... 'The now good > master hard drive' reads just a bit jarringly odd. > > 2) The RAM chips are good. Bad RAM will affect things in weird ways. > > 3) DW is the OS-X version and not the OS-9 version, both 1) and 2) > affect this point with OS-9 being more forgiving than OS-X. > > > Try pushing the on board re-set switch a few times, followed by (if > this by itself does not work) > Try pulling the on-board battery and leaving it out for a little over a > half hour or so then put it back in. This will really reset things. > (This is a last resort, serious type of thing). > > Jerry | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be July 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
