A few weeks ago I obtained an 8500 to replace my dead 7600 hybrid. The old drives were transferred to the 8500.
At first this machine was prone to the same freezes and crashing that the other one suffered from. This led to a determined effort to sort it all out. S9ome may remember my postings last week dealing with extension sifting. and
startup freezing. I followed all of the suggestions which came in to little or no avail.
On either of the two drives booting resulted in a blank error panel being displayed on the MOSS screen. Turning various extensions on and off ( over ten hours of reboots altogether. ) showed that I could get it to go farther and farther along in the startup but that even if a desktop was established it would crash almost immediately at the slightest action. In the few error messages that did come to text were system error 10 and 11. Also a finder error CHK (check ?).
Needing this machine to work as soon as possible.( And I have a lot for it to do indeed) I got a 4 Gig drive from the swap list and formatted and installed Os 8.5 and when it seemed stable enough, although limited, I installed 8.6 . Because I need it for USB.
When booted the OS on this drive bagan showing the same problems. And when I reformmatted one of the other HDs and installed 8.5 and 8.6 update the machine still has these symptoms.
Disk First Aid and Norton show all disks to be OK.If they are to be trusted. Defragging, PRAM zapping, memory test turned off and desktop rebuilding have been tryed.
I only have an unregistered shareware virus checker so do not consider it thorough of course.But all tests with it were
to the negative.
My thoughts are that my install disk and /or 8.6 update .sit file may be corrupt. Or one or more Memory SIMMs may be bad. This last even though Guru tests all as good.
Since the mobo is much harder to service and experiment with in this machine than was the old one I hate the thought of testing DIMMS but probably will.
Any thoughts or input on or offline would be appreciated.
TIA
Adrian D'Alessio
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