Definitely sounds typical of hard drive failure. Whenever the desktop is refreshed, it is cued off the hard drive, which sound like its failing. Disk first aid is not going to rescue it. Tech Tool Pro 3/4 or Norton Utilities may help some of it, but its best to reformat or look for a new drive. Ebay will get you a nice 9/18G SCSI for pretty cheap. Watch out for the correct type. Most seagate drives will have an 'N' designation for 50 pin narrow. SCA (80 pin) and 68pin drives are common and carry 'W/WC' markings. Other mfrs use other annotation. You can use these drives of course with adapters. Do you have any other drives that you could potentially make a startup volume with to see if you have the same slowdown? Zip or external drive? It would be preferable to actually disconnect the drive power to the internal failing drive and then boot off the 9.1 cd and see if the lag is still there as well.
Greg
Fans,
I've been powering up a Powerbase 180 recently - added a USB card, boosted the RAM to it's internal max of 160Mb using a pair of 128Mb DIMMs (as suggested by one of the PCL readers) and am now looking for a processor upgrade for a good price. Somewhere in there, I noticed the refresh rate for the Desktop graphics has slowed to an unbearable pace. I've reduced the number of icons on the desktop to the CPU, trash and one folder. When the graphics refresh is executed, the CPU icon shows, then the CPU name, then the Trash icon, then the Trash name, etc. Each of these steps takes approx 4 seconds to occur. I feel like I'm in a coma when I'm watching this. I've changed the Extensions settings to "9.1 Base", as well as all of them turned on, with no change.
Also, during one of my shutdowns, I apparently did something improperly and the computer, on the next startup, ran Disk First Aid, responding with a dialog that indicated there was some "damage" it could not fix. I then booted off a OS9.1 CD, ran Disk First Aid, and DFA said it found some damage that it could not repair, and the red text indicated "Invalid PEOF, 274088, 2509"
Any clues from anyone for either of these problems? I've done all the reading I can and still have no clue. Help!! Are there some websites that give clues to these error messages?
Thanks
Also looking for suggestions as to the spec for replacing the 1G HD with 10G to 20G unit.
Mike Banks
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