Been happening far too often lately with my 7600. Powerlogic 400MHz, 500MB RAM. Couple of HDs (3G and 2G). Boots up but freezes before icons appear. Hot reboot, keys+shutdown, usually fixes and all is sweet. This happens even on hot restart sometimes (ie. every now and then I restart from Special menu if I am not on line to 'wipe the board clean' and so to continue with confidence). I run 9.0.4. Nothing has changed that I can think is relevant from before this started to happen a couple of weeks back. Have done a lot of work on it in last few weeks (in Illustrator, Photoshop, BBEdit ... only major download has been Mozilla 1.3.1. Don't know.
Done throwing out desktop folder and forcing it to rebuild new, thrashed and trashed the Pram. Norton's Utility 6 picks up nothing wrong. But then, I think a nuclear bomb could hit my machine and it would not notice sometimes. But it occasionally finds things (usually when I have no real problem and "fixes" it) . Its cool enough here, about 20 degrees C. My times and dates are fine. But it is possible the battery is not adequate? If it is borderline, can it cause the trouble I am having? No I am not going to change it without some inkling as to why. I will forego pay and sink into darkness and inactivity till I hear a proper theory. I go further, I would not change it even if it definitely would fix the problem if there is no reason I can see beforehand ... no maybe this is too extreme ... please forgive me... I get unbalanced when my machine does. My HDs are old for sure, but humming away, they are tidy and defragged regularly. And it still produces what I want... But for how long, there is trouble brewing. Don't know. David Elmo -- 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
