Well I figured out one of my problems, hopefully it will solve everything. Turns out to actually be a combination of two actions after I installed a faster Zif setup. At some point within the clocking and reinstalling software, cuda'ing, a few things got corrupted. Some of the problem may also be associated with the new IE 5.1.6 because most of the freezes occurred with the app open. Once I removed it and went back to 5.1.5, random crashes diminished significantly, but not totally.
So I ran various utilities but nothing significant turned up. But with things looking better, I decided to reinstall the OS over the prior one (not creating a new System Folder). All was going well, for the next few hours. Then disaster struck. Boom! Bang! Big Crash. Primary Drive no longer visible on restart. Only thing that could see it was Norton's 'Show Missing Disks' feature. Not even DW, FWB, HDST, etc could touch it. So I ran Norton. Boy was the drive messed up. Just about everything in the Volume Header Block and Catalog B-tree was corrupted. But Norton also informed me of one major point, I forgot to Bless my System, which I usually do on a fresh install, but forgot on this reinstall. Norton fixed it. But when I got my disk back, all my files cleanly organized on the drive were scrambled in their folders, but they were all there. Whew! Even though I keep a backup of data, I sure didn't want to have to reconstruct it all. But everything now seems as stable as it can be. Knocking-on-wood. So don't forget to Bless Your System after that install/reinstall! While it could be a coincidence, if anybody else is having some unusual symptoms with 5.1.6, pass it on here. Dave s900, XLR8 G3 450 zif -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
