LCARS
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This machine has been a labor of love. It's a rescued 8600 that I had up and running over the summer with a V6 revF scsi2sd, a 4GB Panasonic SLC card, and a new PRAM battery. It was great- no issues. Glorious 7.6.1
I haven't used it in a few months (left plugged in). Now when it boots it will either not boot (screen is still in standby), boot to desktop and freeze after a few moments, or boot to desktop and open a blank error box (black & white rectangle) and be unresponsive even to the soft reboot. Sometimes if it does respond to the soft keyboard reboot, it won't chime and will just sit with a screen in standby.
I read nymunariya's post and downloaded the updated v6 utility and firmware, installed, but the problem has not gone away. I have pour too much of myself into this machine to give up just yet. Blind Writes is disabled. I've tried it with SCSI2 enabled, Speed to to 10MB/s as well as No Limit. Still, it will or will not boot desktop but always freezes.
What are the collective thoughts? Software? Hardware? Virtual memory is off but I have been running Speed Doubler. I hope I haven't cooked the card (which is why I chose and SLC version).
I haven't used it in a few months (left plugged in). Now when it boots it will either not boot (screen is still in standby), boot to desktop and freeze after a few moments, or boot to desktop and open a blank error box (black & white rectangle) and be unresponsive even to the soft reboot. Sometimes if it does respond to the soft keyboard reboot, it won't chime and will just sit with a screen in standby.
I read nymunariya's post and downloaded the updated v6 utility and firmware, installed, but the problem has not gone away. I have pour too much of myself into this machine to give up just yet. Blind Writes is disabled. I've tried it with SCSI2 enabled, Speed to to 10MB/s as well as No Limit. Still, it will or will not boot desktop but always freezes.
What are the collective thoughts? Software? Hardware? Virtual memory is off but I have been running Speed Doubler. I hope I haven't cooked the card (which is why I chose and SLC version).