On Sunday, June 20, 2004, at 11:43 AM, Samuel Tang wrote:
My C600/240 has just started misbehaving and I am hoping to hear from our learned fellow members, in the hope of solving this problem.
Hi Sam,
The following suggestion is just a guess on my part, but may be worth trying, while you wait for others to comment.
Since I have acquired the C600 to replace my deceased C500, it had been
running very well, even on a "mule" hard drive from a 5400 of 1.2GB for
software installation testing purposes. The two pieces of 64MB FPM RAM
and the Matrox Millennium II card were inherited from my 6360 ...snip... and I
have also substituted an original Apple CD-ROM drive to eliminate the
need for third-party drivers. I partner it with a Sony E200, 17" monitor
which is adequate for the job, driven by the Matrox at 1024X768
resolution, but on start up, it always starts with 640X480, then
switches back to 1024 which is pretty much normal for non-Apple monitors
anyway.
After putting the C600 aside for a week as I attended to other
businesses, when I boot up from cold it freezes at the "Welcome to
MacOS" splash screen at 640X480, displaying the bomb alert panel saying
that it has a bus error, and recommends me to restart with extensions
off, and it starts up successfully sometimes after another restart.
Sometimes the bomb alert is stuck when still blank, and occasionally the
...snip... and have MacOS 8.6 reinstalled, the problem persists.
Getting a system bomb at that point is usually a serious hardware issue or an extension conflict.
The Matrox card that came with theC600 is not a Millennium II card. If you reinstalled the OS, and somehow installed the UMAX drivers for the Matrox card, that may be your problem.
Nancy
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