Frozen restart and DAVE

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jem71

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Please if anyone knows anything that could help I would be forever grateful...
This morning the machine *osx jaguar* froze on startup. Just the grey screen and never gets to the 'spinning cog'. I cant start in safe mode, the only thing I can do is boot of cd.
What I think is the problem is that yesterday I installed DAVE4.02 and after all the files are installed you have to go through the setup assistant. Something came up and I decided to quit it and do it later. Forgot to do it later and restarted next morning. My guess is something evil has been installed that needed some configuring to do its stuff, since theres no configurement its freezing at startup.
Has anyone else had this *highly unlikely what fool would do this*, or else does anyone know what I should check in terms of startup procedure, OR does anyone know exactly what files DAVE installs? I have removed anything I could find that resembled DAVE or Thursby but fear it has rewritten something in the startup config...
Please, please anyone???
 
Dave has an Uninstaller.

This is from Thursby;

Run the DAVE 4.0 installer and choose Uninstall. We strongly suggest that you reboot the computer BEFORE uninstalling and verify that Classic is not running. During the uninstall, you may receive errors that the uninstall was unsuccessful -- this message is incorrect.

Dave isn't necessary when using Jaguar for most situations.
 
thanks bob

I have tried the uninstaller but it keeps opening up a new installer ad infinitum. It takes me forever to try and catch up with all the open installers and force quit them. Consequently I get nowhere trying this method.

Any further ideas??
 
If you have OS 9 installed and can boot from it, do that and search for any Dave files and remove that way.
 
Ive done that already! It still doesnt restart. Im actually in OS9 at the moment backing up 15Gb worth of stuff I should have saved awhile ago!!!
Could it have written to some file to search for some DAVE components??? As you can see I aint no OSX expert (OS9 was a breeze)
 
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