On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Caleb Cupples <calebcupplessocial...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Listers, > > I have an SE/30 that I've recently upgraded the hard drive in, and > installed 7.5.5 on, but I keep getting a "bus error" at boot, whenever > I don't boot with the extensions off. Does anyone have any > suggestions, because I've been wanting to get it online with the > Asante ethernet card that's in it.
Have you checked the Extensions folder to see if there are any extensions that your system doesn't need? If there are, try removing them in safe mode and then see if your mac will again boot normally. It is also possible that the system install has become corrupted or there is a issue with the new hard drive, did you try booting from a floppy disk or a external hard drive? If that succeeded you may want to try replicating the extension setup of the properly booting install and try again. If still no luck you may want to try formatting the hard drive again and then copying the properly booting system install to the hard drive. If still no luck you can try swapping the hard drive and copying over the properly booting system again. If still no luck once again, try replacing the hard drive cable. If even that still changes nothing I'd try testing the RAM sticks one at a time in each slot. If none of that does anything, then you may have fallen victim to one or more busted capacitors on your logicboard that has resulted in critical components being corroded. In this case hopefully washing the board and replacing the affected capacitors will be enough to resolve the issue, although if it has gotten too serious you may have to get a replacement logicboard from somewhere like lemswap or eBay. Good luck! -- Best Regards, John Musbach -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to vintage-macs@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
