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bd1308
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on: July 18, 2006, 07:57
I babied this OS 7.6.1 install, and now its all messed up. Seems to want to hang up a little after the Sonnet CPU icon during start-up and the icon most of the time appears white (black and white) and usually bombs out with a generic error, until I hit restart, which it says is a "bus error" I'm thinking its something with my Sonnet CPU, but since I can't afford a new one, is there some way I could backup a working system installation in case of an event like this and just restore it when there is a problem (very rare)? b |
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dpaanlka
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1024 MB Posts: 1646
Reply #1 on: July 18, 2006, 08:32
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how is it with extensions disabled? does it do the same?
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bd1308
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128 MB Posts: 198
Reply #2 on: July 18, 2006, 16:25
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Extensions disabled--all is good. I think i'll just restart, I have like a hundred extensions. b
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dpaanlka
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1024 MB Posts: 1646
Reply #3 on: July 18, 2006, 18:39
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Well then it is probably an extension conflict, which is always a fun thing to troubleshoot. Go through a bunch of restarts, each time having a different set of 5 or so control panels or extensions enabled, until you find the one that crashes.
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bd1308
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128 MB Posts: 198
Reply #4 on: July 18, 2006, 21:05
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OK. Its actually in the Memory control panel. Bumping the cache from 256k to 2048k and enabling Vm and bumping that to 184M caused my system to crash, even after a fresh install. And by fresh I meant like 30 minutes old. I installed a different IDE driver on my hard drive and now it wont boot--it locks up at the happy mac, but the happy mac never shows up. Anyway to force a mac to boot from floppy and prevent the IDE drive from mounting? b
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dpaanlka
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1024 MB Posts: 1646
Reply #5 on: July 18, 2006, 21:16
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Maybe it has something to do with that gigantic hard drive you have? Try putting a smaller drive (40gb or less) in and see if that works. If it does, you've found your problem. BTW, what do you mean by "another IDE driver" ?
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bd1308
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128 MB Posts: 198
Reply #6 on: July 18, 2006, 22:05
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IDe Driver as in the Apple Driver that is put onto these drives when they are used in macs....available in Drive Setup, etc. The 3rd party one I used was FWB's driver from a product they made for drives. I clicked some extra options and poof its gone. Apparently my issue was data corruption. I have a new drive in there now, and I'm doing a low-level format of the drive before I use it. I am going to be very careful with certain things too. Oh and I hit the IDE drive limitation with my 160GB drive, I looked and all its picking up is 131072M which I believe corresponds to 120GB..actually its 128GB. This low-level format is going to take FOREVER. Any ideas on how to prevent screen burn in? b
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