Dear List,
I have a PowerComputing Powerbase 200 purchased January, 1997 (before the
word was that Steve jobs was returning to Apple).
It came with OS 7.5.3 and a 1.3G IDE hard drive. Things went okay for six
months or so and then the crashing intensified. I applied Conflict Catcher
and it kept catching everything but the problem.
I added 128 megs of RAM hoping that would help. It helped some.
Finally someone advised me to start up from the System CD, then open the
system folder on the hard drive, trash the system suitcase, trash the
finder, empty the trash, then copy the system suitcase and finder from the
startup CD onto the system folder in the hard drive.
Then, when things began acting buggy again, just repeat the procedure.
Things worked well for about three months, but then the crashing
intensified again.
I was about to shoot it, when I tried one more thing. Instead of the system
7.5.3 CD, one day I tried the same trick using my Norton utilities CD,
which has system software and the finder from system 7.6.1.
>From this point on things worked well--though slow--until finally the IDE
drive crashed never to be trusted again as a start-up disk.
I added an internal 9.1G SCSI from Lacie. I started up on 7.5.3 and things
were generally as smooth as my initial honeymoon when I first got the
machine, but it would still crash for who knows why.
So I went back to running 7.6.1 copied off the Norton disc. Things ran
quite dependably--though there was some sacrifice of speed. That was okay.
I'd rather have dependability.
A couple of months ago I tried to add an Ethernet card so I could go to
DSL. Only thing was, I didn't have the system software to support it with
my hybrid system. I called a used Mac place from the back of MacAddict and
the guy said my machine could support 8.1.
I did a clean install of 8.0, then an update to 8.1 off a CD update disc.
I appreciate the increased speed and other system enhancements, but it
began crashing nearly as frequently as the 7.5.3 did. I did another clean
install, but things got buggy again after a few days.
I've now gone back to doing the old Norton trick, except now I start up
from the 8.0 disc, trash the system suitcase and finder from the SCSI,
empty the trash, then copy the system suitcase and finder from the 8.0
disc, but now I'm going through this process every two or three days.
Should I try and track down a 7.6 CD and a 7.6.1 updater and forget trying
to go to 8.0/8.1?
I apologize if this topic has been covered here before, but I just
subscribed today. Thanks for any and all help.
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