My Reply follows quote. On 18/06/2003 20:34 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >My PM 7200/75 (7.6.1) has been working perfectly for a long time. Suddenly >it got funky, so I shut it down and restarted. It seemed to stArt Ok >except didn't open the launcher. It won't open anything! Not the hard >drive, not the CD (shows the icon), not the zip disk (also shows icon). I >can 'open' control panels but not items there, so I can't switch stArtup >disk to Disk Doctor. > >I CAN start with my startup floppy disks. I have a 7200 startup floppy >with a zip driver and Disk First Aid (7.2.2?), I can boot and see the zip >icon but not open, nor can I open the floppy to get to Disk First Aid. > >I had make a NDD startup floppy disk from the Norton Utilities disk. I >used it to boot and it runs Disk Doctor. It found some problem in the >alternative directory and 'fixed' it and now reports no problems. I still >can't open anything. I'm typing this on by backup computer (Performa 466) >since my new faster PM7200/120 (8.6) isn't set up for e-mail yet. > >Any idea what the problem/fix is? Never saw anything like this before. >Any help appreciated, you guys have saved my skin before and have given >excellent advice so I'm waiting. --------------- If it has been in service for a long time, it is possible that the PRAM battery has gone south. Odd things happen to some machines with low or flaky PRAM batteries.
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