On Wednesday, September 8, 2004, at 07:34 PM, Karen Turner wrote:
I have a 9600/300/G3 and it recently crashed. I was working on it Monday
afternoon when it froze. Upon Restart, there was the flashing ? icon...and
nothing else. Long story short, I was able to bring it back, but it is
still very sick. I used TechTool Pro, Disk Doctor and it's OS 9.1 CD to
restore it, but it took a very, very long time and many trials. At first,
it wouldn't even boot from the 9.1 CD---all it did was lock up, especially
if I tried to reinstall. Disk Dr and TechTool are now both satisfied that
all is well---DD never found anything wrong, but TT repaired a few things.
I am now able to get my Desktop back up and can even open programs, but it
still freezes up often and frequently. Somethings were lost during the
trashing/reinstall of the OS.
What is going on? Can it be fixed? And if so, where do I send it/take it? Is this curtains and should I just start salvaging what I can off it? If this is it's final days, where can I go to find a used tower?
Karen
Don't panic. Your tower is fine. The issue may be a memory failure, hard disk imminent failure, unless Disk Dr. pronounces it well, cable-loosness issue, heat-related
problem from the CPU and the Heat Sink not mating properly. Battery failure. Power supply?
If you can't do these things, take it to a tech. If he/she wants more than it's worth I suggest
an older iMac. They're becoming very inexpensive.
Jeff G
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