Right you were Robert.
Took one dimm module out and it got a little further along in the
boot process from the hard drive and even further from the external
CD, although both froze. Took a second module out and it boots fine.
In retrospect bad dimm might also explain some occasional minor
problems I've had the past year or two in copying files from the
internal SCSI HD to an external Firewire HD.
Only have 24 Meg of RAM now but at least I can access the recent
e-mail and other items I hadn't gotten around to backing up.
Now I have to decide whether to spend $60 or so to replace the dimms
or take advantage of a $99 deal on a refurbished B&W G-3.
Incidently, I tried the archives, but they only went back a little
over a 1,000 messages, most of which were that autoreply fiasco in
May. Nothing beyond it.
Thanks for the help.l
--
Karl Seitz
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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Karl Seitz
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