Re: [SM] Problem with the hard drive???

[Paul Corsa]

As far as I know OWC does hav 128MB EDO DIMMs for $17.99- you might have 
to get on their sale mailing list to see the offer. If you can start 
from an OS CD you would be able to run DiscFirst Aid on your HD- It 
won't run while the HD is the startup drive. You might also look for RAM 
at places that surplus our older computers- there are lots of the 
8500-9600 Apple and Clone machines around. Every so often you just have 
to wipe a drive clean, reformat it and reinstal everything. That is why 
a backup system is necessary- even if it is copying to someone else's 
drive via eithernet. Any friends with a Mac and large HD? I note in your 
original post that you download the installers from the CD to your HD, 
then run them. This could cause corruption. I'll bet you are doing this 
to avoid ubgrading the FWB HD drivers, right? It would be cheaper to buy 
an old Apple ROM'ed HD. You should be able to get a 4 to 9 GB drive for 
the price of the FWD Driver update and have two drives.. Good luck. Paul C

Eric D. Hedekar wrote:

Hi Paul

Thanks for the tip about OS9.2 but like I say, I have thrown in the towel on
installing that for now, the more pressing issue at the moment is making my
hard drive work.  I zapped the PRAM and tried to rebuild the desktop, both
to no avail.  I don't have any backup system as I am only running the one
drive that came with the computer.  Any more suggestions?
Also, despite having no plans to attempt OSX on this thing, I would like
some more RAM, however, OWC does not have a clearance on (it's still
$25/stick US) and once I get the shipping charges and customs charges
cleared it becomes about $100/stick US = $130/stick CAN.  Do you know of any
places in Canada that have cheap RAM?
-Eric

OS9.2 will not load on a S900 without a code hack. I haven't used it but
remember mention that it is at the OWC website. Most people just take
the open GL driver code from 9.2 and put it into 9.1 for use with newer
video cards. You should deal with the old RAM issue, especially if you
have any hope of a migration to OSX. Again, OWC has a great clearance on
128MB dimms for the S900. You may have corrupted your OS in your instal
attempts. I'd zap the Pram and try to rebuild the desktop if the
computer will boot. Don't you have any back up system on another drive
or disc? Paul C
Eric D. Hedekar wrote:

 

   I was recently upgrading my S900 OS9.0 through to 9.2.2 (9.0.4, 9.1,
9.2.1, then 9.2.2) and I was sucessful in getting 9.1 to load and run.  I
had been runing the downloaded installers off the harddisk, not from CD.
When attempting to load 9.2.1 I received the error message at the beginning
of the install wizard: this program cannot be installed on this computer,
please se the documentaion for more info (the documentation merely told me
to boot from CD as the other docs also had done).  I attempted the 9.2.2
install at that point but ran into the same block.
Shot down, I decided to burn the image and boot from CD.  The method of
holding down "C" at the startup does not work on my comp so I was using the
command+option+shift+delete function (not sure if that makes a difference
   

to
 

my situation).  The comp failed to recognize the CD as valid (I did
   

download
 

these updates straight from the apple website) after many attempts.

I should also mention that I do have the odd problem sometimes with ram
sticks (some older some newer) in which my comp frezes without any warning
or cause, but that's extremely rare.  I'm pretty sure that during one
attempt to boot from CD this fault took hold and I was stuck looking at the
grey screen with the smiling computer looking back for a few minuites.
After restarting that time, the CD still refused to be recognized so I was
ready to throw in the towel on 9.2.1 (and the subsequent 9.2.2).  However,
when I finished this attempt the friendly computer popped back up - like
usual - and then after about 30 seconds of attempting to load the already
installed 9.1 (I could hear the hard drive going doo-dah-doo-dah-etc.. at
regular intervals) the computer returned to the blinking disc icon.  I
   

tried
 

a few more times after that to just simply boot into 9.1 from the hard disk
(I have no CD for that and my 9.0 CD has long been lost) but each attempt
returned with the same result of false hope and a blinking disk icon.
Any ideas on how bad my system is screwed would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
-Eric



   



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