I would re-seat all PCI cards, and maybe the DIMMs as well...
I had a Power Mac G3 desktop beige that froze randomly during boot-up phase
and after re-seating all the cards securely, it
worked just fine...
I was amazed that was the problem...
-Andrew
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From: "Gary Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "PCI PowerMacs" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2005 5:30 PM
Subject: [PCI] MAC 8500 won't boot
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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