My 9600/xlr8G3/OS 9 has for a long time had a curious start-up issue. When starting up from cold, the power button lights up, the start-up chime sounds, the fan and hard drive spool up, but the monitor stays dark. The monitor powers up, but the LED on the front (it's an IBM E54) goes immediately from green to amber and the screen remains dark. If I turn on the computer then immediately turn it off after it chimes and then immediately turn it back on, the start-up is completely normal, without any "Your computer failed to shut down properly" warning! My graphics card is an ATI Rage 128. I use Conflict Catcher, and I have put a space in front of the ATI Graphics extension to try to make it load first, but the load order is always: 1. xlr8 MACh Speed extension 2. Conflict Catcher control panel 3. ATI Graphics Accelerator extension 4. followed by the rest of the extensions and control panels Other ATI extensions that load are: ATI 3D Accelerator ATI Driver Update ATI MDD Manager ATI Rage 128 3D Accelerator ATI Resource Manager ATI Video Accelerator A test with Conflict Catcher reveals no extension conflict. I have repeatedly zapped the PRAM (with Tech Tool) and rebuilt the desktop (also with Tech Tool) to no avail. The computer still requires the on-off-on method to start up normally from cold. The curious thing is that after the computer is started from cold using this procedure, subsequent restarts from the finder or Conflict Catcher, even restarting with a different set of extensions (but always including the first three listed above), are completly normal! What's going on here? Michael McMurtrey Enid, OK
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