Diana I can only suggest a few simple steps to begin with but they are probably worth trying.
First, upgrade to at least 10.1.4 if not 10.1.5. There are lots of bug fixes and classic enhancements (in stability) in these upgrades. Second, upgrade Classic to 9.2.2 for the same reasons. Third, after a few Classic crashes or freezes (my more common problem) it pays to boot into Classic to let it perform some housekeeping that it doesn't do when launched under OS X. Fourth, if these fail it might be worth a clean install of your favourite flavour of OS 9 and try again. Hope some of this helps. Cheers Greg on 16/7/02 9:34 AM, Diana & Graham Stevens at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am making an effort to stop being a Luddite and get used to the new > technology but it is fraught with problems. > > Every time I try to start Classic I get a bus error which tells me to > start again with extensions off. It does not work with the shift key > but will start up with extensions off from the Classic panel. > > In desperation I swapped back to System OS 9.2.1 and used it without > problem yesterday but today when I swapped back to OS X.1.2, Classic > still crashes. > > In order to use OS X I installed Eudora 5.1.1 for OS X and Mozilla X > 1.1a. I also installed the Software Updater update (before I did the > updates it wanted to do so it seems I have made another mistake). I > presume these would not have changed the OS 9 System Folder. It > appeared to work OK on Sunday after I had done all of this. I had > Classic set to start up automatically because I use it so much, I > have turned this off but it makes no difference. > > I am fed up as I am achieving nothing and spending all my time trying > to make the rotten machine work! The help file is not too helpful. > Any suggestions please? > > Diana (who is trying to use a G4 Quicksilver 933 MHz, 512 M RAM in OS X.1.2) > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.html> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.html> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > >
