On Thursday, April 15, 2004, at 01:29 PM, JennaSaige Lefae wrote:
And since I don't have an OEM CD-ROM drive, I feel like my computer's a 28 lb doorstop.
Did my stupidity just cost me a really decent computer?
Any input would be great.
All hope is not lost. The collective wisdom here will get you through the darkness of the moment...
Can you restart with the 9.1 CD using the Vulcan Death Grip? (SODA: Shift-Option-Delete-Apple) This combo forces a poll of the SCSI bus for a bootable system folder. A retail version of the OS 9.1 disk (NOT a copy for a specific model) will generically boot on a non-Apple SCSI CD-ROM drive. Some folks think a System Restore disk for an iMac or PowerBook will boot and they will not boot any other machine (at least in my experience).
The same trick works if you can choose the CD in the Startup Disk control panel with the above caveat.
Also make sure the hacks you made to the Apple driver are correct. Open it up again in ResEdit and go to the specified hex values and compare values. Working with that code can be tedious. I sweated bullets the first time I hacked the CD driver and saw that when I deleted a value everything collapsed two spaces. The ResExcellence article provided a good visual to ensure what one should see before and after.
Another item: Possibly the PRAM could have soiled itself. Press the CUDA button on the motherboard for a good 15 or so seconds. This is invariably one of the standard voodoo practices one should know when troubleshooting a Umax box. Innumerable cures for a variety of maladies have been found all due to a simple press of the CUDA. Why? That's in the hands of (insert deity of choice) but beyond our rational grasp.
Others will have additional suggestions.
Pax,
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