I've had my beloved Powerbook 2400 (my first Mac) for about a month and a half now. I was in a situation where the computer was attempting to keep up with all of my applications open at once. It fell flat on its face, and locked up. I've done this before many times to date, and simply powered it off. Upon restarting, instead of the usual happy Mac icon, a floppy disk with a question mark was displayed. I could hear the hard drive trying to access something for a few seconds, power off, power on & try again, power off. This would repeat indefinitely if I let it. I said okay, the boot area must have been corrupted. I stuck in the trusty 2400 disk tools floppy. It said my 10 GB drive was probably bad. I told it to fix the drive. I rebooted, and still the same problem. I decided the next best thing would be to reload the OS. It was running 8.6, but I have 8.5 on CD - figuring that would be close enough for the current dilemma I tossed it in. The CD-ROM would not boot even holding "C" down. The 4x CD-ROM certainly acted busy for the longest time, but I never got an indication that any OS or installer was loading after waiting for several minutes. I received the same results with the Powerbook 2400 CD-ROM. I tried changing the SCSI ID of the drive from 6 to 0. That didn't help either. Does any one have any ideas as to what's wrong and how I can go about fixing it? Can I boot/load off of a network? Any help would be _greatly_ appreciated. Thanks, -John ---------- 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> XRouter | Share your DSL or cable modem between multiple computers! Dr. Bott | Now $199.99 <http://www.drbott.com/prod/MIH120.html> PowerBook Guy is | Click here! Everything PowerBook! | http://www.powerbookguy.com Midwest Mac Parts ][ <http://www.midwestmac.com> After-market parts for Macs. ][ 888-356-1104 ][ MacResQ Reader Specials: 2.5GB Seagate SCSI: $119, 4GB IBM SCSI: $199, Norton Util. 4.0: $29, Mac Parts, Systems & Repairs <http://www.macresq.com>
