Fellow Listas, After a few years of getting great help from the list. Its time to give back. I had a problem with my 2300c recently. The chimes-o-death (4) visited after installing an Express modem. There was no real answer to the problem from the list and it had me totally "whipped" for days. I won't bore you with all the details of all the disassembling I did to find the problem, but the breakthrough was putting the hard drive in an MCE data shuttle and accessing it through my PBG3 PC slot. It worked fine, even booting up. When I put it back in the 2300c it booted one time, and not again .... chimes-o-death. Anyway, using logical reasoning (HA HA) I finally figured out the installer for the modem, put a system enabler in the system folder that causes conflict with OS 8.5 and changes the PRAM settings, therefore the chimes-o-death. Disassembling it drained all power and reset everything to default. Accessing the modem the 1st time messed it all up again. I upgraded to the newest express modem SW I could find and everything is fine now. What was confusing was that I had understood that "chimes" were a hardware failure indicator. In this case the enabler got to the PRAM that stores the info about what hardware is connected up and there was no installer log indicating what was installed. Moral of the story .... If you upgrade the system software, ALWAYS upgrade all of your other software. And hardware errors are not always "hardware" errors. thanks to those who tried to help, Gary - "wait for OS 9.1..." ---------- Duo/2400 List, The friendliest place on the Net! A listserv for users and fans of Mac subportables. FAQ at <http://www.themacintoshguy.com/lists/DuoListFAQ.shtml> Be sure to visit Mac2400! <http://www.sineware.com/mac2400> X-Router | Share your DSL or cable modem between multiple computers! Dr. Bott | <http://www.drbott.com/prod/MIH120.html> Midwest Mac Parts <http://www.midwestmac.com> | After-market parts for Macs. Fix your ticking dock for $59 w/ trade-in of PS. 888-356-1104 PowerBook Guy is | Click here! Everything PowerBook! | http://www.powerbookguy.com
