on 04/01/05 22:40, James Sanderson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here's my problem. I installed 10.3 on a WS 1/233 with 288MB desktop. > It booted into it just fine; would sleep and wake just fine; the video > wouldn't white out. It seemed pretty stable. I shut down after a day, > allowing it to shut down and restart per a schedule I set. Everything > worked fine. After using it for a time, I shut down for a whole day. > When I restarted the darn thing booted into 9.2. Now it boots into 9 > all the time. To get to 10 I have a ritual I have to go through. Boot > into 9, try to reset the start disk, freeze, restart into 9, reset the > start up disk, restart. It has done this consistently for three days > now. Yesterday the date and time reset. It holds the time when it > finally boots into 10, but looses it when it boots into 9. > Would only the PRAM battery be the culprit of all this quirkiness? > > A. M. G. D. >
It is quite possible, since the startup disk I believe is stored in the PRAM along the date and time used by OS 9. -Laurent. -- ============================================================================ Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelin <http://nemesys.dyndns.org> Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] bug-compatible adj.: [common] Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with fossils or misfeatures in other programs or (esp.) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as apath separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1.0." -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
