Mark:
Your intial description sounds like the problems I was having with a 3400/200
w/32 mb RAM. It would randomly boot ok and then randomly freeze. I traced the
problem to a bad RAM module. I replaced the module, and it works fine all the time
now.
Gary
Mark Romberg wrote:
> First, the technical: 24MB RAM, 750 MB HD, 10.4 in. active LCD, OS 8.1,
> broken floppy drive. For about a year, it has been starting up unreliably:
> it will boot to the Mac OS/Welcome to Macintosh screen, begin to load the
> OS, and freeze once the progress bar has progressed about a quarter inch.
> Rebooting doesn�t help. Booting without extensions doesn�t help. Zapping
> the PRAM doesn�t help. Repairing the disk doesn�t help. The kick is this:
> sometimes it boots fine. It will randomly decide to boot up without a
> hitch(usually to the tune of me praying desperately that it will boot this
> time because of that important whatever).
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