Classic Fails on 7300 |
February, 23, 2003 12:15 PM |
dcolores |
On a PowerMac 7300 upgraded with XLR8 CarrierZIF and a NewerTech G4 400/200, with an Acard 133 supporting two EIDE drives (floppy removed) and a TDK CDRW, the original SCSI 2GB hard drive, 896MB RAM, and a terminated SCSI tail supporting an Iomega ZIP 100, a UMax 600S scanner and the original CD-ROM in a 3.5" case, running 10.2.4 and 9.1. Classic has never been able to open. It runs to complete load of extensions, the icon go away, and then it hangs. There is "no" progress indicated on the classic progress bar. It just hangs/stops. Have researched Apple's Knowledge Base, and deleted all possible alias' to OS servers, and the Server folder in the target 9.1 system folder. I have worked with Disk Utility from the Jag install disk, Norton 6 Disk Doctor, Disk Warrior, and permissions to no avail. OSX has been running for several months well but with occasional crashes, and some disk format corruption requiring occasional disk utility repair. Recently acquired iBook is slick with none of these problems. Have read a lot about RAM testing, but don't believe I have bad RAM. Newer Guru and Gauge RAM tests pass. Six 128s have come new from OWC in the past year or so. Two original 64s remain from the 7300/200 604 I bought on eBay about 1.5 years ago. All are interleaved. Any clues to get Classic running?? Any recommendations on how best to definitively test RAM? Better RAM test utilities? Any assistance, please use my direct e-mail, dcolores@earthlink.net, as well as the forum. Thanks in advance! Steve Seiden |
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RE: Classic Fails on 7300 |
February, 24, 2003 12:30 PM |
dcolores |
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Mitch, Classic is alive and well. Though I can't get it to work on my 7300, on my new iBook with 10.2.4, it is flawless. Even the New Apple machines that cannot boot into OS 9 have 9.2.x installed as Classic to use OS 9 apps. Can't boot into it, but from 10.x Classic runs. Richard, Thanks for the image tip. I may try that soon. But this 7300 has a very stable 9.1.3 and 9.2.2 both in separate partitions from 10.2.4, and neither will run as Classic. Steve Seiden |
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RE: Classic Fails on 7300 |
February, 24, 2003 8:42 AM |
mitch707 |
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I thought classic no longer worked/supported after 10.1.5? - mitch |
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RE: Classic Fails on 7300 |
February, 24, 2003 3:47 AM |
RWBorn |
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I'm sorry I don't know a solution, but it reminds me of a similar effect. I think it may be the same thing: If I use System Preferences to start Classic WITH Extension Manager, I can use Extension Manager to make my changes, but when continuing after that, exactly the same hanging occurs. But after forcing quitting Classic, the next normal Classic booting process -regardless if it's automatically by a Classic application or manually - succeeds and everything is as it should be then, including the changes made in Extension Manager. My setup: 7300 with Sonnet Crescendo G4 800 and Tempo Trio with ATA Disk. And, maybe not unimportant: I followed the tip to install the classic System 9 stuff not on a disk or partition the usual way, but in its own disk image. This Image resides on the same partition as System 10.2.3, but using an image keeps the files of System 10 and System 9 apart - "apart together" you'd say - and seems to speed up the Classic booting process. This works fine for me. It even might be the difference between the behaviour of your Mac and mine - I never tried the other, "normal" way. Richard |
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