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Oh, and I should clarify that there's no programmer's switch installed, and this isn't a hard restart. I don't get a second bong, etc. The sequence is: bong, question mark, drive noises and happy Mac, no more drive noises and back to question mark. This is the sequence for whether booting up...

So should I take it that these symptoms are unusual? What do you make of getting a happy Mac and then having the computer switch back to the question mark? I was under the impression that happy Mac meant good system folder found. Why would the boot process fail or reset after that?

So, I've got me some odd symptoms. SE with 20 mb internal and 1mb RAM. About two weeks ago some random errors started turning up on the hard disk. Several files and the hard disk itself were renamed on click to some variation of "----------" and several files became corrupted and unusable. I...