All right, my puzzler of the week: I have a 7600 with 512 megs ram, a Metabox JoeCard 450 G4 upgrade.
I've got two SCSI drives a 9 and 4 gig, 9.1 installed on the larger drive and the stock CD rom drive. Until Saturday this was working fine. Then I tried to install OSX using XPostFacto : http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/ Then I made a stupid mistake, I think... It *started* just fine, and the installer started up, at which point I realized that I had the 10.1 upgrade disk, not the 10.0 disk. Sure enough it told me I couln't install from that disk and quit. I rebooted, put the correct disk in during reboot, and got a broken folder icon. Bad news. Tried rebooting with cmd-opt-p-r to erase pram, now I get a flashing question mark. Unplug, remove pram battery, let sit for 30 mins, press cuda switch for 30 sec, Flashing QM. Do above, but let sit overnight. Flashing QM Think maybe the problems with the G4 card, replace with a known good Sonnet g3 card. Same problem, flashing QM. Eventually, pressing the CUDA switch and booting with cmd-option-p-r for several cycles let it boot up wiht the G3 card. I ran DFA on the drives, they're happy, no problems. Work for a bit, the computer shuts down normally. When I restarted this morning, though, I get the broken folder icon again. Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this? -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
