Things to try: 1. Run Disk Warrior 2. Startup from CD, and rebuild the desktop 3. Trash the Finder Preferences 4. Startup from CD, remove all items from the startup-items-folder
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). > -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
