Seems like I remember this problem before being traced to a bad RAM
dimm ??? Have you tried the archives?
Why don't you pick up another internal CD drive. The old Mac units are
going for about $10.00 at the Dallas electronics flea market. RHB
On Jul 3, 2005, at 9:13 AM, Karl Seitz wrote:
I have a PowerWave with a Sonnet G-3 upgrade running OS 9.2.1. Until
last night I have never had a problem with booting that I could not
solve by using a CD or other alternative booting device.
This time, I haven't been able to get it booted and operational. Here
is an outline of what I've tried.
Last night, I went to restart after a program, icWord, had run out of
memory translating a big Word document. The initial message on the
reboot was that an error 10 had occured.
Various restart attempts got this message. With a OS9 CD in an
external CD drive (the internal drive bit the dust long ago), I got a
message about a bus error once or twice, and once got the start of the
splash screen before the error message appeared, but most often the
computer ignored the CD entirely and continued to try to boot from
the hard drive.
This morning, the boot error message has consistently been that the
startup disk has the wrong OS for this computer and needs to be
updated.
I have been unable to force the computer to look for another startup
device, either CD, Zip or a Jazz drive, for all of which I have disks
that have booted before. I do know the computer knows the devices are
there because the read lights come on briefly when the computer starts
up. I don't know if the computer knows the devices contain disks.
These are all on the external SCSI
Opening up the computer and pushing the CUDA button has made no
difference. It still won't boot from any device on the internal or
external SCSI.
I was able to get an ancient Norton emergency floppy disk to boot, but
neither the keyboard nor the trackball worked (yes, they are ADB), so
I couldn't get any further.
The booting has always begun with the appearance of the Happy Mac. It
is my impression that the Happy Mac stays on screen longer than
normal, but that may be because I'm actually watching it. My cable
modem recognizes the computer when it powers up.
Does anybody have any ideas?
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