System 9.0.4 has a bad reputation.
I do not know if 9.0.4 is causing your problems, but if i were in your
situation, i would upgrade to 9.1.
I believe it is a free upgrade.
Jess wrote:
> I've been using my PowerMac
> 9500/150 for several years now. . .and I love the
> thing except a problem. In order to boot
> it, I first have to press the power button on
> the keyboard, and listen to the chime on the speakers.
> After that, I
> then have to do the three key reset command on the
> keyboard in which I hear the chime again, and the
> computer finally boots. After the first chime, all
> the computer does is get the hard drives up to speed,
> but stops there. . .it doesn't send the video signal
> to the monitor, or anything else. After I do the
> three key reset on the keyboard, the signal is then
> sent to the monitor after I hear the second chime and
> everything boots fine. Now, I've always had this
> problem as far as I can remember. The computer works
> fine overall with little or no problems. . .except
> this boot issue.
> Things I've done trying to fix this:
>
> replaced the PRAM battery
> reformatted both hard drives
> completely taken apart the system. . .down to the
> motherboard looking for any bad chips or mis-alligned
> memory. . .everything looked perfect.
>
> I now use a 19" monitor with a VGA adapter on
> my stock Mach 64 graphics card. This problem is
> the same as when I had my 15" Apple monitor
> with no video adapter.
> My system:
> �PowerMac 9500/150 with the stock 604 150Mhz
> �128 Megs of RAM (interleaved)
> �240 Megs Virtual RAM on system HD
> �2 SCSI hard drives, one a 1 gig and the other a 2
> gig, with the 2 gig used as the system HD.
> �External Global Village modem
> �19" monitor (non-Apple)
> �Stock Mach 64 graphics card with 2 megs VRAM
> �USB PCI card which I've got my UMAX scanner and EPSON
> printer hooked up to.
> �Mac OS 9.0.4
> �Apple Adjustable Keyboard
> �Advent stereo speakers with subwoofer
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