On Wednesday, October 30, 2002, at 06:30 AM, Vaughan, John wrote: > What's it mean when you reboot your Mac, and it's found the hard > drive, but > not gotten to the OS splash screen yet, but then it reboots itself > again > without your help. My weird 7500 does that, too, and I'm guessing it > means > something bad. In other words, I get the first chime, the happy Mac > shows > up and thinks for a while, but before the OS9.1 screen shows up, it > starts > over and I get another chime and whole process starts over again. > (And just > to show I'm not stupid -- NO, I'm not zapping the PRAM when this > happens). >
It could be that it isn't finding your OS 9 system as the default boot system; it may be looking for another one first. Does i boot into 9 the second time around? If so, open the Startup Disk control panel and make sure that the proper system folder is selected. Reboot to test it. If it doesn't ever boot into 9, then you may have a corrupted system folder. Boot from your OS 9 install disk (or whatever disk you use for repairs) and run Disk Repair or whatever repair app you use. Hope this helps. -Peter Chastain -- 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:pci-powermacs@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:pci-powermacs-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:pci-powermacs-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lowendmac.com> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
