My Reply follows quote. On 03/03/2003 07:10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grizzly) >Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Hello, Ken: > > >>My 6360 with NewerTech 400, OS 9.1, 30gig HD with three partitions, has >>been set to "auto start" each morning for a couple of years. This morning >>it hung up just as it was starting to display the desktop icons. >> >>Ran Disk Doctor which indicated problems with Apple DVD/CD preferences. >>Got rid of them. Still have the same problem. >> >>The system will start properly as long as the OS 9.1 CD is in the drive. >>Otherwise is hangs at the same point each time. >> >>Removed the Apple DVD/CD extension and system boots properly. However, >>the CD Audio Player won't activate since the extension is missing. > >>Ken > > >It could be that something (small) has gone wrong with your DVD/CD >drive, or system software and the drive now needs a DVD/CD in it at >start in order to not cause your machine to hang when starting. Here >are my thoughts, in no particular order of importance. > >1.) Just live with your system with the way it is, if you can remove >the CD and use other CD/DVD's without the system giving trouble. > >2.) See if other CD's in the drive will still allow startup. That >would indicate the drive as the problem. > >3.) If no other CD/DVD will allow startup, then maybe there is >something on that CD that the drive/extension needs to boot up. I would >imagine that this (obviously) is a _new_ problem and would indicate >either the drive or the system software as the source of the problem. > >4.) Change out your current CD/DVD drive with a _known_ good one, using >the the version of the CD/DVD extension that you were using before. If >the problem still exists, then the problem is likely a.) in the system >software b.) in the system hardware. > >5.) You may want to clear your PRAM. > >6.) Check your drive cable and attachments. > >7.) If you have made any changes to your system lately, remove them to >your previous situation and check your SCSI number selection or your >IDE/ATA master/slave jumpers on ALL of your drives to make sure they are >properly setup. > >8.) Try booting up with _only_ the CD/DVD driver enabled. If problem >still exists, it's likely an extension conflict and you have a couple >hours of easy, but boring work ahead of you to figure out which other >extension is causing the problem. This should have been thought #1, but >I always think from least likely to most likely. If you have added any >extensions lately, disable them first. > >Whew! I'm exhausted! I hope that helps. > >Sincerely yours, Grizzlygiant ---------------- Further research indicates some sort of extension conflict. I changed extensions sets to "Mac OS9.1 All" and got a good boot with CD drive working properly. Even "CD Audio Player" works as designed. Now begins the long process of adding back extensions one at a time until I find the culprit!
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