I am not sure how the bad ram does it's meanness and I am not sure it is your problem. My guess is that the ram is accessed at some point in the startup or it has corrupted other things. Each time I had this it took me months of work to get to the problem. I eventually would put each module in buy it's self and try the computer. If it works with one and not the other RAM then you have it located. I have also, had bad hard drives cause boot problems.
I sujested a RAM problem because RAM that works on OS 9 may not pass the stiffer demand of OS X (and I have had this happen). If it was a drive it would fail any OS. Your problem nags me because I think I have read of this problem and a fix for it (unrelated to RAM trouble) but cannot recall any more than that (looks as though I have my own bad memory problem;). I never had startup trouble or even a bad hard drive on a Mac until my hard drives were larger than 2 gigs and the OS was 8.5 and higher. The bigger, faster, cheaper drives come at a price. And even though System 7x didn't have startup problems it was buggy as hell. We always live in troubled times; But the troubles change. I found the bad Sonnett buy getting a 7600 working well with a 233 604e and then putting the Sonnett in. Boom, it went south. The Bad news on the Sonnett was that it was in a 8500 for years before going bad. I worked on the 8500's problems for months without a cure. I finally pitched the 8500 thinking the motherboard was bad. I had even pitched a couple drives I had replaced trying to fix it. There was nothing wrong with the 8500 or the older drives. Roger Rik Gresham wrote: > That is unpleasant news; I have degraded the amount of RAM that I run > with just for compatibility's sake; currently standing at two matched > 128's and another 128 that have stood thousands (literally) of passes > of test with no problems instead of over 600 with some concerns. How > could bad main memory affect the startup disk settings when they are > enacted by the PRAM, just wondering? > > I could spell out the roms of a C=64 but the internal maps of a Mac > are still a mystery, even after 16 years. > > Questioning, > Rik > > On Tuesday, Dec 3, 2002, at 22:28 US/Central, Roger Harris wrote: > > >>As in; Bad RAM moduals. >> > > > -- Unsupported OS X is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Unsupported OS X list info <http://lowendmac.com/lists/unsupported.html> --> 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/unsupportedosx%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
