On Jun 26, 2011, at 6:06 AM, Valter Prahlad wrote:
Or, you might just had a "bad monday" case. ;-)
That must have been the problem. After letting the computer sit all
night with power off, when I started it the next morning it booted up
right away into OS 9.2 from my ATA drive. I was then able to re-boot
into OS 10 and complete the installation of 10.3 on the SCSI drive,
then upgrade to 10.4 and use Software Update to bring it up to
10.4.11. All is fine now, but sometimes I think there is as much
witchcraft/black magic to these things as there is computer "science."
The USB problem turned out not to be the card, but a balky hub. That
turned out to be a connector to its power supply which had somehow
loosened from its jack in all the turmoil; once that was re-seated,
everything was back to normal.
Thanks to all who provided advice; it was very helpful, and I am in a
much better mood now, for which my wife also thanks you!
My gracious wife also has ordered my birthday present in advance: a
refurbished dual-processor, dual boot MDD G4 which will run all my
current software and, she hopes, restore peace and tranquility to the
household.
Michael McMurtrey
Carrollton, TX
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