At Thu, 1 Apr 2004 22:29:42 -0500, Nathanael Hasbrouck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 01 April 2004 2031, somebody named Ron Murray inscribed this > message: > > > ... and that's exactly what happened. I removed the PCI SCSI board, > > disconnected power from the SCSI drives, then connected an old SCSI > > drive to the other SCSI bus and powered it all up. The installer locked > > up again, just as before, so I guess the problem, whatever it is, > > doesn't have anything to do with the SCSI board or drives. > > Heh, cool. (Sorta. Progress, at any rate. ;) Bad RAM maybe? That's the > only other thing *I* can think of. Had some of that, too. (Original 16MB > DIMMS that shipped with the machine. :)
Yeh, I thought of that too. Fortunately I have a couple of 128K RAM modules that seem to work in the box. Tried one of them, and still the same result. Even if they're not quite right for a Mac (although they work fine in MacOS), I'd expect a different effect. This is getting weirder by the day. I gather that Macs have lots of strange bits of memory all over the place: is any other memory likely to do this? And, even better, is there a good Mac memory test program around? .....Ron -- Ron Murray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.rjmx.net/~ron GPG Public Key Fingerprint: F2C1 FC47 5EF7 0317 133C D66B 8ADA A3C4 D86C 74DE