Liliana Velazco wrote: > Greeting my friends! > > I am stumped with a little annoying and time consuming problem. Well is > just time consuming, that's why is annoying..... well, here it is:
Your computer actually likes rock music and is rebelling? ;-P Actually it sounds like corrupted PRAM and/or a dying PRAM battery. Start up the Mac holding down command-option-p-r (I need to use a pencil in my teeth to get all of these) until you hear the startup chime three times. Then release. It'll likely start up from Good ol' Wolfgang, anyway, but now you should be able to set the start-up disk and have it stay. If that doesn't work, you can replace the PRAM battery. Finally, it could be an obscure setting on the drives themselves. Some SCSI drives have a start-up delay jumper setting, but I'd need to know the manufacturer and model numbers of your drives to be sure. If this probalem has gotten worse over time, then it's likely the PRAM battery or PRAM. If it's always been this way (and there are no other usual signs of batteries going, such as Losing the date and time or time zone.) then it could be the drive. I have a Seagate 4 gb drive that simply refuses to boot from a cold start; restarts are ok, but it just won't boot. On the other hand it won't mount at startup, either, though it will on a restart. But this is a funky Compaq-rommed thing from a PC RAID tower, so weirdness is to be expected. -- 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: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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
