xandr, Maybe someone else on the list has a better idea, but I would do the following: 1. First run Norton Disk Doctor or Disk First Aid. Fix any errors. Reboot and rebuild the desktop by holding down Command+Option. If you still get errors, remove all 3rd party extensions from the extensions folder. Gradually add them back, rebooting after adding a few at a time. This may help you track down a problematic extension. If this doesn't help, go to step 2. 2. Drag your Mac OS and Finder preferences from /System Folder/Preferences to the trash. Empty trash. Reboot and rebuild the desktop by holding down Command+Option. If this doesn't help, go to step 3. 3. Remove all 3rd party RAM. If you still see errors, remove all external SCSI devices (if present). You may have bad RAM, or a badly terminated SCSI device on your SCSI chain. If this doesn't help go to step 4. 4. Remove and re-seat all of your remaining RAM, PCI cards and processor card. Press and hold the CUDA switch on the motherboard for seven seconds. It is located next to the very bottom PCI slot. Reboot. If this doesn't help go to step 5. 5. If you have access to another hard drive, try it after removing the hard drive(s) that are currently being used. If this doesn't help go to step 6 6. If you have access to another computer, try your components in that second computer and see if you still get errors. If this doesn't help go to step 7. 7. If 1-5 still causes errors, but 6 doesn't, your power supply may be going bad.
There really isn't any reason a computer can't keep running so long as you replace the parts that fail as a result of age (hard drive, power supply, cdrom drive etc.). I'm assuming, of course, that you haven't overclocked your processor, and that you have already completely re-formatted your hard drive clean and done a clean install of Mac OS 9.1. Good luck. George --- xandr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. Can someone who may have had similar problem > give me some suggestion. > Thank you. I am on an S900 which is about 5 or 6 > years old now, running a G3 > upgrade card, system 9.1 with about 670 mb of > memory. I have recently been > getting a bus error, which requires me to reinstall > the system to get it > running again. I have installed a new Epson Printer, > and other software > which I had previously had installed and it just > will not stop giving me > this bus error. I did change the battery a year ago, > but I am not up to date > on what I should be expecting to go out on this old > of a computer. I am > hoping to make it last until Apple brings out its > next G5 this year. Any > advise will be most appreciated. Thank you. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> > and... > > Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | > Refurbished Drives | > Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > & CDRWs on Sale! | > > Support Low End Mac > <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > > SuperMacs list info: > <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> > --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; > Send list messages to: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To unsubscribe, email: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For digest mode, email: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subscription questions: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > >The Think Different Store > http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
