Hi all;
I'm setting up a new-to-me 8500 for a family member. It came with 8.5.1, 156 RAM, original 1 gig drive.
Functional status unknown. 156 RAM.
I pulled the HD, saw an IDE sticker, bought it an IDE drive, then realized what it had in it was a Fireball SCSI with a Fireball IDE sticker. .sigh. I should have checked LEM 8500 pages first.
Anyway either with the original installed 8.5.1 HD and system, or with a the internal drive formatted and reinstalled with 8.5: I can't boot with extensions enabled.
With extensions enabled, even on a formatted drive and clean minimal system, with a normal boot the finder locks up upon loading. I can make it display a "finder cannot load due to lack of memory" if I have 8.5 minimal system loaded. If I disable some unneeded extensions, I just get a finder freeze, no white crash box, no error message. This is a clean install onto a formatted disk.
When I boot with extensions disabled, I get a normal finder, system reports 156 megs RAM available. The memory cdev is set to have 1 meg of disk used for virtual memory.
Bad RAM? Some known extension issue with the 8500? The RAM is a brand I don't know, so it could be flaky. It's a pain to get at this mainboard and I've not had time to start swapping modules yet.
Bad processor? I have a G3 card for it, that could be easier to put in than messing with the RAM.
I've started disabling extensions from the "minimal" set, but haven't completely finished testing.
Thoughts welcome. My goal is to get this shipped to arrive at my father's place before the holiday, so I can move his files across- without trying to do that over the phone.... I wanted to update the HD but I'm not sure I can find either a Mac capable IDE controller, or a new SCSI drive, in time.
Recommendations on easily found IDE cards for 8.5 or 9.1 welcome. IS there something likely to be on the shelf at Circuit City or other easy place? I guess I'm only 1.5 days shipping away from OWC, I could just order online. Are there boot issues with IDE controller cards and 8500's? I'd want to boot from the IDE drive.
And of course I wanted to put 9.1 on, and I cannot find my 9.1 installer CD...
Thanks for help;
Brian
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