Boy you're sure right about those IDEs. Good advice you gave, but to be more clear, to update the hard disk driver, run Drive Setup. It's in your utilities folder.
Back when our school built a new wing, they bought 5500/225s for all the classrooms. Every one of them developed the flashing question mark. Apple sent out a purple CD with Drive Setup 1.3.1 to solve this very problem. The Drive Setup on the OS disks included with the 'puters was an older version, not compatible. Cheers, John On 9/13/03 8:30 AM, "cbirds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday, September 13, 2003, at 02:37 AM, Timothy Virkkala wrote: > Make sure your start-up disk is properly selected in the startup > control panel, update your drivers, and zap your PRAM and you should be > fine. > It is 90% of the time your software, because if your HD was failing > mechanically, it would not have booted on that HD. > SCSI drives have not nearly the failure rate of IDE drives as far as > I'm concerned. -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
