Yikes! Last night I was testing a REALbasic program I've been developing on my PowerBase 180 (tower). This computer has a 2 Gb IDE internal HD, internal SCSI CD-ROM drive, and 72 Mb RAM. Because the program had locked the machine up pretty tightly (an endless loop in the program being the most likely culprit), I did the usual 3 finger salute to restart. This has worked okay several hundred times before, but last night the PB180 would not boot back up. I get the gray screen and see the smiling Mac icon in the middle, I can hear the hard disk making its usual set of clickety chunkety noises, but then eventually (after about a minute) all falls silent and I've still got nothin' but Smiley Mac sitting there grinning at me.
I've already tried the following: 1. Boot from Mac OS 9 CD-ROM (nothing happens). 2. Reset PRAM (same result only now I see a bigger Smiley Mac). 3. Retry boot from HD (several times). 4. Retry boot from Mac OS 9 CD-ROM (several times). 5. Try (and retry) boot from original PowerComputing CD-ROM (OS 7.6?). 6. Unplug power, let it rest a few minutes, unplug all external peripherals (except monitor), check / reseat all internal connections (including RAM), and then retry the various boot procedures described above. I did this several times too. All I ever see is Smiley Mac except when I do the 4 finger salute to boot from CD. Then it shows the floppy disk icon and the floppy disk icon with the "?" on it for a few seconds as it tries to boot from the CD. Finally I just see ol' Smiley Mac again. It never gets past that point. On the positive side, it does respond the the mouse before I see Smiley Mac, and it does respond to the keyboard combinations for restart, CD-ROM boot, and PRAM reset, so I know the machine is not totally dead. It's just refusing to boot from either HD or CD. Any suggestions for getting it to boot again? Thanks in advance! Bob Conway -- Power Computing is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 123Inkjets.com <http://lowendmac.com/ad/123inkjets.html> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Power Computing list info: <http://lowendmac.com/power/list.html> --> 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]> List archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powercomputing%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
