Well, I got my Performa 550 upgraded and re-assembled as a 575 this evening. Works very nicely, although I am having problems here and there. I dragged out my old Mac CD's and ran Techtool Pro 2.1.1 on it to check some things. Several problems were found that I cannot fix. System folder and Volume Structures have some problems which can't be fixed without booting from another disk. I tried downloading a PC utility from MacGeek.org which allows you to create a bootable Mac floppy on a PC. Unfortunately you must use the Command Prompt which I am hopelessly lost with, and was unable to do anything at all with the file to create the floppy. Is there an easier way to create a Mac-bootable floopy with a PC? I have no other way to get files into the Mac at this time, except for writing PC CD's for it maybe.
Another problem is when I tried to make the TechTool CD the Startup Disk. It accepts the change, but on restart you get a startup chime, smile Mac, the CD is being read from, then you get a black screen and a "dead Mac/sad Mac?" with 0000000F 0000000C beneath it, and the machine is crashed there. You have to hard restart with the main power switch. Tried holding down the C key at startup, same crash results. I had to take a paperclip and eject the CD. It boots from the HD system normally after the CD is ejected. It is like it never remembers the TechTool CD was the Startup disk. Next problem is it will not read any audio CDs, only software CDs. It tries to eject or initialize the CD, says it is unreadable (bulls==t!). Tried installing Quicktime 2.5, no difference. I was able to find Quicktime on an old Earthlink CD. I also installed TCP/IP and Open Transport from the same CD, and tried out NetScrape 2.02, DSL works great over the ethernet connection, but it doesn't want to run Java, and crashes a lot. The HD has OS 7.5.5 now, and I've only got 20MB RAM for the moment, until my 128MB comes from Coast to Coast Memory, we'll fix that :))))))))) !!!!!!!! Also looking for a 4 to 6 GB SCSI drive to replace the tiny 80 megger that's in there now and it's almost full. So basically I am very happy with the upgrade, but rather p/o'd at all the little buggy hangups I am having, and trying to re-Mac-ify my PC'd brain cells and remember all the thousands of things you have to do to set all this stuff up right. My last Mac was a beige G3/300 that I trashed because it became so troublesome and unreliable, and built my own PC, which has been my main unit for the past 2 years. But I have decided to give the beloved Macs a place on the desktop again, I just have to get the bugs out of them and get my brain working right again! 'Til next time, Gary -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
