Ryan wrote:
> What I have tried: Zapped the pram, desktop rebuild, ran an > installed Norton Utilities Disk Doctor, pressed cuda reset, > reseated some of the internal hardware, replaced the PRAM battery, > tried booting from an OS 9.1 system CD by holding C button at > startup but did nothing. > > My sister has Norton's Utilities on CD I want to borrow and try to > boot from but have my doubts. > ------ I am assuming you have only one hard drive on this machine. You need to work on the startup drive, which is not possible unless you boot from another drive or an external CD. More then likely you have a factory matshita CD drive which will not allow you to boot from a maintenance CD such as Norton or even a Apple system CD. This is a very condensed answer but the main thing for you to try to borrow an external CD drive such as a burner and force boot from that, (Cmd/Opt/Shft/Del). Good luck and welcome to the List. Alan -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------
