John,
Thanks for your response.
Now the problem of slow boot has mysteriously been corrected. I
installed a Farallon Ethernet Card and updated OS 8.5 to 8.6 and it
now boots in less than 1.5 minutes. I still don't have a serial port
but am connected to my network via apple talk using the Ethernet.
I am mystified. Prior to this I had initialized the hard disk, I
tried 8.0, 8.1 8.5 and 9.1 all had the slow boot problem.
If the problem comes back I'll try your approach.
If you know when does the ram check take place, before or after the
welcome box appears, please tall me . Yours is the best thesis yet.
Perhaps a flaky ram may have caused the problem. However I recollect
that I had run TechToolŪ Pro 2.5.4 and received no indication of a
RAM defect.
Bob Hall
>At 5:25 AM -0700 9/8/01, Duo/2400 List wrote:
>>Sounds like your RAM might have gone South.
>>
>>You were not very enlightening on what part is slow. But, one of
>>the first things the machine does is an internal RAM check and if
>>your RAM is bad, it takes a LONG time.
>
>Hold down the command and option keys while opening the memory
>control panel. That adds an option to disable the memory test on
>startup. If that's the problem, your startup will be considerably
>faster. But you'll know that you have a bad RAM module.
>--
>John Slavin
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