On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 11:37 PM, joplinfan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have a B&W G3 running 10.4 fairly well... but now and then it will > exhibit strange video problems such as missing icons in the > Applications and Utilities folders, reloading the desktop two or three > times during startup, and no response when clicking Shutdown and > Restart via the menu. > > Usually if I use Force Quit and restart Finder, the icons will appear > and things will work fine for awhile, but will eventually disappear > again. > > I've tried all of the simple things including a new PRAM battery, > reinstall the OS, rewrite the HD with zeros before reinstall, etc... > but no success. I'm kind of thinking it could be the ATI Rage 128 > video card or the HD, but not positive. > > Any ideas? Thanks. >
What do the startup signals tell you? Screen color etc? Loose RAM? Have you changed any hardware lately? Does it act like this when booted from optical disk? Is it possible the drive got corrupted/ overwritten by two different file systems in any way? Any hard drive noises? Loose or damaged HD cabling. Dirty connections? Everything seated properly? Can you try another HD? I would be thinking the drive is nearing the end. But maybe it is something else? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
