| Thanks again Cheryl
I had already rebuilt the desktop using Techtool from a CD. I also zapped the PRAM.
Yes Disk First Aid was 8.6.1
Memory seems OK
The hard drive is empty except for the OS and PageMaker & Photoshop (which I have just installed from original disks.) There is 390MB unused
No SCSI drives, in fact no external items at all attached
I opened the scripting editions and the only items there are the ones that you listed (no Dialects folder or URL Access Scripting though)
So no advance yet
My trick of holding Option and the D key during startup seems to allow me to move the pointer in one try out of three or so. Random and certainly not scientific...
Regards
Bruce |