I am writing about an 8600/200 288MB RAM Virtual Memory Off OS 9.1 2 gig HD
I bought this box off eBay. I replaced the PRAM battery and added the memory. It is networked (ethernet) with my iMac and cable modem It seemed to work fine. My wife even did a big WP job on it and it worked flawlessly. Then the trouble started. This is the same machine I wrote about earlier, when it wouldn't shut down. At that point, whenever I tried to shut it down, it would re-boot, as if I had selected restart instead of shut down. Mark Ginn (thanks Mark) told me to turn off the printer. He said the 8600's have a hardware problem that causes this behavior. By coincidence, I had recently hooked a printer up to this machine to test it (the printer). When I unplugged it, the re-boot issue went away. However, the 8600 still continues to act weird. It will freeze so that I have to force restart; the Finder will suddenly quit...both these occur sometimes even when no one is using the machine. It is just sitting there and will suddenly freeze or the Finder will quit. Also, it will go into sleep mode, even though I have turned off the energy control panel. What causes that? There are no screensavers on it. I have tried: zapping the PRAM running with extensions off rebuilding the desktop running Norton Disk Doctor (several times including defragging) running TechTool Lite I am at the point where I am ready to initialize the hard drive and start fresh. The only reason I haven't yet is because I want to keep OS 9.1 on it. It came with 9.0.4 and I updated it, but my install disk of OS 9 for my iMac will not work on the 8600. If I initialize the drive, I will have to reinstall 8.6, which I may do if no one has any other suggestions. Sorry about the long note. Any help or suggestions would be REALLY appreciated. Tony Isbell -- -- 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
