> From: Roberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [PCI] PM9600: "Restart" doesn't work, "Shut down" does > > Hi all, > > it's some time I'm tampering with the PM9600, and now I've registered a > weird behaviour: if I simply Restart the 9600, it regularly closes the > Finder and turns off the monitors, but then... nothing - just black > monitors, even if I wait for several minutes (I have to press the Power > key on the front of the 9600 to turn it off). Trying to restart with > the Control-Command-Power key combination leads to the same result. > When I want to restart the Mac (in example after I've disabled or > enabled some extensions), I have to Shut down, then to turn on the Mac > again (by pressing the usual Power key on the keyboard). > > Any suggestion to have back the Restart command? (I tried to reset the > PRAM and even I pressed that CUDA switch again, with no avail) > > Thanks, as always, > > Roberto Giannotta > Trieste, Italy
Check all your RAM thoroughly with Gauge Pro over at least 1500 iterations... I had this sort of trouble on a 7300 which had a couple of bad Ram sticks, each one of which was sufficient to cause the trouble. I was always curious as to how the inclusion of some bad Ram among lots of good can cause this particular symptom? On true shutdown I would assume all Ram is freed for new use and any info about how the desktop is written to disk just prior to restart and recovered on startup later. On restart, this may be the case too. Or maybe (sounds unlikely to me) some info is retained and recovered directly from Ram because it is a hot restart but the Ram is addresses where it is supposed to be are corrupted or cannot be accessed? 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
