At 12:57 -0700 06/29/2002, David R wrote: >Interestingly, it is doing the same thing now with my scsi drive as the >start-up disk during a cold boot. Never did that before I made the switch >to ide, but definitely is affected now. > >I tried the cuda again but no change. What could be causing a cold-boot >hang? Restarts, no prob. This wouldn't be am mobo going bad symptom is it?
My two guesses would be: 1) SCSI drive is taking too long to spin up for any of several possible reasons. 2) VST card is causing some new bizarre symptom. I would first try pulling the VST card long enough to test #2. If the problem persists, then check your jumper settings on the SCSI drive to make sure that you don't have delay spin set or something like that. Also, if it is an older drive with a fairly high RPM (early Barracuda e.g, such as ST15150 or ST32550) then it may just take a long time to spin up. One way to test the slow spin up theory would be to move the problem drive into an external enclose and power it up about a minute before the computer. If the problem goes away, then almost certainly the drive is just slow to spin up. If this has no effect on the problem, then slow spinup is not the cause. Jeff Walther -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> 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]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
