I have a Beige power Mac G3/233 running OS 9.1 becasue it doesn't seem to like 9.2.x About fifty percent of the time it starts up fine, but another fifty percent, it will freeze display a blank command prompt while the startup bar is about 1/8 of the way across. Even more rarely, before this, the top of the screen will be filled with the repeating message "can't OPEN" about 20 times. There are no hard disk errors with the disk utility and no PRAM resetting has solved the problem. Suggestions?
"can't OPEN" error at 9.1 startup
- Thread starter alphap1us
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I remember seeing this happen due to bad RAM. Also, a corrupted system or Finder file can give this type of response. But it sounds like your system does boot to Finder OK sometimes, which leaves bad RAM as very suspect. You should have a hard drive utility of some type, even booting to an OS 9 install CD and running Disk First Aid (shich will be on the disk somewhere) may complain about a problem of some kind. Norton Disk Doctor would probably be helpful here also (or one of the other major repair utils)
Did you install anything new lately? Running disk First Aid (utility folder on the OS 9 CD), click verify, then repair. Then run Norton Utilities - the CD is bootable. Have it repair (fix) everything. Then go to the Apple Menu>Startup Disk and select the hard drive to start up with.
If you continue to have problems, a clean install of OS 9 should correct things.
If you continue to have problems, a clean install of OS 9 should correct things.