Hi I thought with a "new" machine and new HD my problems would be over...
>>Brought my 9600/200 home from work (OS 9.1, Sonnet 400mHz G3, 1.5gb >>RAM, GOOD PRAM battery, 3 HDs with lots of space... >> >>It was working OK at work, with the occasional malf probably due to >>the low battery. Brought it home, swapped in a newish battery from my >>6116 (this is a good battery) and set the 2 Macs up to exchange files >>via the printer ports (for some reason the ethernet dongle connection >>wasn't going to work with the 9600, though it worked fine between >>6116 & 7500). >> >>As soon as I tried to copy my Eudora system folder across BOTH Macs >>crashed. After restart the 6116 was fine, but the 9600 crashed on >>every startup (about 20 attempts or more); if I tried I'd get as far >>as trying to open an application before it crashed, though it would >>crash anyway shortly after the desktop icons appeared. The thing >>would freeze, though the cursor was still movable. >> >>There's no new software on the 9600, no physical changes... only the >>settings required for connecting the 2 machines. Due to the crashes I >>cannot even change the settings or try any problem-solving software. >> >>Any ideas out there? >> >>The only thing I can think of is that there was a clunk from the back >>of the wagon on the way home, and all I can think was that the 9600 >>slid across the floor and hit the tailgate fairly hard at one point. >>However I tried checking the seating of all visible connectors and > >cards... tried the CUDA switch too. ------------------------------- >Try holding the shift key down at startup and see how far it gets. > >If you get it to startup, go into the preferences folder and toss the >AppleShare Prep file and restart. > >dongle? The 9600 has built in ethernet with an RJ-45 connector. ------------------------------ This brought it back with extensions off. Didn't crash. BUT when I then tried restart without holding down shift, it crashed as soon as the desktop icons had all appeared. When booting (before crashing) there's a small horizontal white oval (with a dash inside the left end) flickering on & off irregularly in the extreme left of the menu bar... have no idea what this is a symbol for. Also the Extensions Manager had been placing itself in the Extensions Disabled folder every time I booted, so the CP disappears from the CP folder... looks like a faulty OS install (9.1). Guess I'll just have to reinstall... At least putting a good PRAM battery in stopped the problem of having to boot twice to light up the monitor from cold. The 6116 now has the dud battery, but runs just fine... much less sensitive to low juice, I guess. It would be nice to be able to replace the 6116 (its only real drawback so far is the small HD, which is FULL). But the 7500 I bought for the purpose was incurably buggy...I think it was a faulty HD in this case. The 9500 I replaced that with had the same litany of faults (used the HD from 7500)... and now this 9600, which was buggy but not that bad, but is now unusable. I wouldn't dare fit one of the 9600's new 10000rpm HDs into the 6116 for fear of introducing whatever caused the problems in the other 3 machines. The 6116 and 7500 have different types of ethernet ports, and I had to get an adaptor made up to connect them. The 9600's is the same as the 7500's. The 6116 is AAUI. ----------------------------- OK. I reinstalled OS 9.1. I immediately ran DiskWarrior over it; it pronounced no unrepairable problems. The 9600 then seemed to behave for a bit, but eventually the Extensions Manager CP disappeared again from the Extensions folder (it used to hide itself away in the Extensions Disabled folder), but now it's not in either folder. As soon as I tried Find to look for it, the 9600 froze. And a second time. Before reinstalling Sherlock was working fine. Next boot it crashed without trying Find. I also wanted to find Norton FileSave, because this is flashing every boot and may be causing the crashing, but it crashes before I can find it. I'm sick of this... 7500, 9500, 9600... all unusable because of malfunctions and crashes. What on earth is going on? Do I just pile them together, pour gas over them and light them? I'd really like to retire this 6226 to backup status, but haven't been able to... Could my OS CD be faulty and giving me corrupt installs? I've considered this, but have in the past had the OS installed from other CDs as well (on the 7500/9500 HD) to no avail. -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 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