its been awhile since i worked with os9. but if i recall the bomb screen came with an error (typically a bus error in my case). Since your down hard any ways, i would pull the pci and personality card and blow it out with some LP air. Leave the pci cards out and give the personality card a good reseat. if your not getting any sound you may have to reseat the personality card a couple of time. i know mine is kinda touchy. If there is a Cuda switch give it a press once you get the personality card and one stic of ram installed. You can use the CMD-OPT-P,R to reset the pram. Devices on the scsi bus can cause that bomb screen too. so shorten your scsi to the boot device or remove the scsi cable all together if your using an internal (IDE) drive to boot with. If your boot device is scsi you can remove the cable and try booting off the os 9 install cd to see if it comes up. also remember to try and boot with all extensions off to maybe give a clue if it is a bus error. the shift key after power up should do that.
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