I have a PowerMac 8500 that refuses to boot, even from an OS 8.5 CD. It gets past the sad mac icon, shows the Mac OS 8.6 Welcome ... screen, shows the Silverlining disk drive icon with both drives appearing to pass muster, but stalls at that point.

From the OS CD, it gets further, loading the desktop screen, shoing the OS CD icon in upper right screen, adds the time, loads a few extensions which persist for a few seconds and disappear, and then we stall with that loading indicator showing about 1/4 complete.

I have cleaned the contacts for the CPU card and the disk drive cables coming off the top of the motherboard.

Any ideas will be appreciated

Thanks

Gary


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