From: Brian Christmas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu Jan 1, 1970 10:36:27 AM Australia/Melbourne To: "G-List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Strange Startup
G'day from Oz to all.
I would appreciate any thoughts whatsoever on this problem.
For months now my tricked out G3 DT has been glacially slow on a cold boot startup. Power on to loading progress bar and log in is about double the usual time, and log in to first screen is about 6 times longer. When the screen appears, aliases and stickies take about 4 times longer to show, dropping on the screen at one every couple of seconds. Everything, including the dock, runs very slow.
If I re-start from the menu, it stays the same.
The problem started intermittently, but is now constant. It used to sometimes reset the date & time when the problem was infrequent, but now nothing gets altered.
However, if I do a power interrupt (the button on the front) as soon as the screen flickers on & off (which it does early in the boot with a Radeon 7000 card), then warm re-boot, everything is fine, and quite fast.
Infrequent boots into System 9 are now exhibiting the same behaviour. ASP in Jag & 9 says 500 mhz even when in a slow cold boot.
System is...
G3 233 Gossamer board with a 500 mhz OWC G4, clocked at 500, 66 bus 768 meg ram usb PCI card Firewire PCI card Radeon 7000 PCI card
What I've tried...
Reseating all PCI cards new MOBO battery taking out battery for 16 hours resetting Pram resetting cuda
Nothing works.
I'd like to fix this, as a PC running friend wants to buy it as soon as I've upgraded to a new G5. Also, I've read several reports where upgraders have said Jaguar runs real slow, and am wondering if there's a connection.
Any thoughts please??
Regards
Santa
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