I stripped the hard drive (20 Gig replacement, not the original which died young) out of my PTP225 to use in another machine, and when I re-installed a new smaller 9G, back into PTP to use as a 2nd system, I cannot get it to run past the initial startup screen. I initialized the drive. I installed OS9 from an original MAc disk.
Heres the scenario,I first installed a MAXPoWR upgrade that I had in a MAc that I also stripped, didn't have the original install disk- so I copied the MAXsoftware(without Mathlib, which it says in the manual to install) from the old machine which had the maxpowr, to this PTP. Found a Mathlib file in the web, thanks to a message from this group, and copied it to the system(but don't know if thats even the right mathlib or if the file is even absolutely required for this upgrade.) So It started all the way thru, and seemed OK but froze when I tried the mouse, had to restart, and freezing continued. I get to the Maxpowr screen, extensions start to load then screen freezes.I tried no extensions, got black screen. It will not startup while pressing C to use Norton, or even let me get to my OS9 CD.It will not startup using the keyboard power button, only using the tower button. I have a backup SCSI CD also hooked up to it, and when it first started that one time, the CD did show up on the screen. I have Speedtools, but cant get it installed. I can't get to the extensions manager to go to a bare bones system, so I can test the extensions. It will try to start with a floppy emergency disk but hangs up and freezes. Should I take out the Ram one by one? And exactly what is the RAM Cache I see mentioned sometimes? I zapped the Pram acouple of times (thats how I got it started once. And, pressed the cuda button for 30 seconds when installing the Mawpowr. Help! Is this software or hardware problem? BRD -- 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
