"I have a UMAX C500 240 with 144 meg memory, a 20 gig hard drive, with no partitions,
Everything was running smoothly on 8.1 - then, I attempted to upgrade and once 8.5 and subsequently 8.6 are installed is one error message after another and continual crashes. Also, the CD Rom will not work any longer ...... I've tried to load the CD-Rom Toolkit (I have the installer on a Zip disk) but it asks for 'personalization', which I do, but it will not recognize the numbers from the back of the original system disk ...... these are the identification numbers it asks you to put in. I'm now wondering could it be that its 'innards' are just not compatible with this Apple upgrade? Rus Bain" Run Nortons, techtool, diskwarrior and apple disk utility first. Any and all of the above may help. It may help if you do a clean install and re install all your programs. If you can save your data - erase the harddrive and install is even better. If you are using FWB Harddisk Tools for your HD driver you may need to update it or let apple HD drivers update your harddrive. I found that with the old FWB HD stuff the Apple OS 8.5 installer would update my HD drivers on my s900. This solved many problems and saved me buying new versions from FWB. Your CD rom is probably not Apple branded so it needs drivers. FWB CD toolkit worked up to OS 9.04 for me. But I think it's better to find an old mac and grab the CD drive for you clone. This will let Apples drivers run the CD. Even a slower CD that is hastle free can be very nice for a change. Many programs stopped working arround OS 8.1 and subsequently at 8.5. You may need some updates to elliminate a few of your errors/crashes. FWB may send you your Key code again if you were registered - at least I would ask them to help once I eliminated all the other factors I could. They may have some insight you have overlooked. I had no problems with their CD Rom Toolkit except that it ate 500k (half a meg) of ram on startup. As Apple OS advanced they became more picky about your Ram. Although unlikely, you could have some bad ram that did not show symptoms in earlier OSes. A plethera of possibilities - good luck. jj -- 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/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
