I've noticed that my G3 has begun to take a very long time to start as
well. 5 minutes, even if I do a restart from the pull down menu. 5
minutes no matter what. and 5 minutes of just a gray screen, with
nothing. Then it comes to a folder with a blinking question mark for
about 20 seconds,
No updates or anything lately? Has it been moved?
I had (have) an 840 that did the same thing (sort of) - except it would sit
for about 15-20 minutes, give a "crash" chime o' doom, then restart / start
up normally after that. I recall replacing the PRAM, giving the cables a
good re-attaching, a
At 1:13 PM -0600 2/5/2003, debkmaillist wrote:
>[cross-posted to the MacAV list]
>Hi,
>My mom has had a Quadra 840AV for about 4 years. It has worked fine
>for her basic needs -- mostly email and AppleWorks, some Photoshop 3.
>It has 56mb RAM, a 2gb HD, runs OSv8.1
>During the past few months, it
[cross-posted to the MacAV list]
Hi,
My mom has had a Quadra 840AV for about 4 years. It has worked fine for her
basic needs -- mostly email and AppleWorks, some Photoshop 3.
It has 56mb RAM, a 2gb HD, runs OSv8.1
During the past few months, it has begun taking longer and longer to boot