I just bought some new memory (upgrading to 768 from 512 mg) and a combo drive for my G3 Pismo operating 9.2.2. My relatively computer saavy and I installed it ourselves using the laptop's owner's manual - and all seemed to go well.
The combo came with a variety of drivers for pismos operating OS 9 and I copied the one that seemed right to my extension folder, restarted and and the drive played a DVD promptly. However, after that the computer would not wake up - the screen was black and made no noise - without using Shift/option/Command + start button. A little later, it was still not waking up but at least made some noise to indicate that it was running - holding down the power key alone worked that time to wake it up. So, we tried zapping the pram and rebuilding the desktop and that solved the wakeup problem. But the next problem seems insolvable and I am wondering if anyone would have any advice. When waking up it takes a few seconds to go from black to grey and then about 10 seconds for the open program to show up. When restarting, it flickers in the grey screen a bit and then starts to open fairly regularly (albeit seemingly more slowly than pre-upgrade), then it hangs on the desktop with the MacHD icon highlighted for about 10 seconds, frozen and then finally the Startup apps open. (In my case it is Claris Emailer, stickies and Mozilla.) I tried turning off the combo-drive extension (and restarting) but the results were the same so now I am wondering if it has something to do with the amount of memory (> 512 mgs)and 9.2.2. Thanks for the advice! Tannis -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:G-Books@mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
