Hi all I had a crash tonight and after I rebooted, the standard OS 8.6 disk repair screen came on. About a quarter of the way through it came up with the error message 'International Utilities not present, to boot with extensions off, press shift key while rebooting' and the option 'restart' as the only available one. I can only make it stop doing this by booting from the OS 8.5 CD (Good thing I have some old Apple CDROM drives around!) and updating the disk's driver. It is the original Apple disk which came with the Umax J700. A standard 'repair' reports the disk as being fine, but the driver must be updated or it will keep cycling through restart, repair, and the above error message which reminds me why I hated Macs for so long...
So what are these utilities, and how can I bypass them? And how do I turn off that post crash disk repair anyway? One of the crashes was after I tried to run the Quake Demo. It ran, but shot the monitor's refresh up to like 160 Hz, and afterwards the desktop also took on some huge resolution, like the Quake game set everything to doublescan. It took a Cuda reset and pram zap to fix that one. Is there a utility available which will prevent modes your monitor will choke on from being used by any program? Thanks again Bolton -- 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
