imaginethat
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My Quicksilver, it's an oldie but it's been a goodie until today. Worked fine in the morning, shut it down, and then would not boot in the afternoon.
Machine: 800 MHz, 512M RAM, 10.4.11
What it's done: All kinds of stuff....
I've gotten gray screen w/apple, stops.
Gray screen with normal "start-up twirl," stops.
Sometimes gray screen w/apple, long pause, and then a square or circle (can't remember which) with a slash across it, stops
To the blue screen, progress bar goes to the end, stops.
Gray screen w/apple, then screen goes a shade darker, and dialogue on left. Says type in "boot-up," I do, sometimes it boots!
Sometimes it boots completely normally!!! Sometimes this takes 3-4 restarts.
What I've done:
Disconnected AirPort.
Removed a SCSI card which operated two back-up hard drives
Disconnected DVD burner/player
Removed, and reinserted RAM
Tried starting up with one of the storage hard drives (which is bootable)
When operating, used Activity Monitor which seems to indicate only one of the dual cores is operating (is that even possible??)
Run Disk Utility, no problems
Zapped PRAM
.......
The QS has the original RAM card. Some of these symptoms seem to be what to expect with a faltering RAM card.
Anybody have any ideas??
Machine: 800 MHz, 512M RAM, 10.4.11
What it's done: All kinds of stuff....
I've gotten gray screen w/apple, stops.
Gray screen with normal "start-up twirl," stops.
Sometimes gray screen w/apple, long pause, and then a square or circle (can't remember which) with a slash across it, stops
To the blue screen, progress bar goes to the end, stops.
Gray screen w/apple, then screen goes a shade darker, and dialogue on left. Says type in "boot-up," I do, sometimes it boots!
Sometimes it boots completely normally!!! Sometimes this takes 3-4 restarts.
What I've done:
Disconnected AirPort.
Removed a SCSI card which operated two back-up hard drives
Disconnected DVD burner/player
Removed, and reinserted RAM
Tried starting up with one of the storage hard drives (which is bootable)
When operating, used Activity Monitor which seems to indicate only one of the dual cores is operating (is that even possible??)
Run Disk Utility, no problems
Zapped PRAM
.......
The QS has the original RAM card. Some of these symptoms seem to be what to expect with a faltering RAM card.
Anybody have any ideas??