Thanks for your comments, folks. : From: Chuck Stinnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: What's on the screen when it hangs? A question mark? Grey screen? Frozen : happy Mac? It does not even get that far; the machine hangs with a black screen; no sync to the monitor. (After about five minutes I stopped waiting and power cycle...) : From: Charlie Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Corrupted system file or system preferences? I would have ASS-U-ME ;-) that had it been corrupted files or preferences the system would not boot from cold or warm start. But yes, I've blew away the content of the HD (low-level formatted) and reinstalled OS9, hit CUDA and zapped PRAM (in no particular order.) : From: Rachel & Greg Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : Do you suffer from frequent crashes while it is running? How much : ram? Are you utilizing all the ram? My guess is a bad Dimm. Find a : copy of 'Ramometer' from Newertech and run it several times. If you : get any errors, its bad chips. I have considered that. The system is fully populated with 128MB x 4 (for 512MB) and passed MacTestPro's long memory test (took four days to complete, with L2 cache removed.) I will certainly give the program you mentioned a try and see if it catches something MTP missed. : From: Edwin Boyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : David, The problem you described is one that I have been attempting : to solve for a few months. It first happened on my PCP with Sonnet G3 : 500 with lots of RAM. I thought it related to the processor upgrade [snip] If I may ask, what is the longest time you "waited" for your PCP to boot? The reason I asked is that on my PM8600 depending on how much memory is installed, it may take a while to boot... (a minute or two on the PM8600 w/1GB RAM.) : I've been working on another issue with the PTP which is with the : TwinTurbo 128 card which mostly wants to boot in the default : resolution (640X480) but sometimes will be OK at higher res. If this hasn't been asked before... is your PRAM battery good? -- 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
