IIci boots twice

[campbellashe]

To all,

Wondering what the issue might be with a Iici that boots to the happy Mac icon, but then reboots going through the sequence again but working successfully the second time. I have the cache card, blue scsi running 7.5.5 and the Rominator II installed. Full recap and otherwise seems to be working fine once the above sequence has occurred. I do note that occasionally the "Welcome to Macintosh" screen icon is colored and other times it is not.

It is not a big problem, but just want to understand how to trouble shoot if it is a problem....

 

[David Cook]

Do you have a PRAM battery installed? If not, then the IIci is setting itself to 24-bit memory mode initially. And then the System software is setting it to 32-bit and rebooting. Just an educated guess.

 

[Boctor]

Yeah, I was going to ask more or less the same, if you had any INITs or SSW that'd be setting it to 32-bit mode. I always use Force32 on a IIci with the same ROM and no battery installed, and it has to restart once during the first cold startup, since the addressing mode is changed.

 

[campbellashe]

PRAM battery is working. On boot, the initial dialog from Rominator displays"32-bit". I'm running 7.5.5, don't have MODE32 or other INITs that I am aware of. I'll try again with a cold boot; looks like on restart now that the computer has been on for a while it is no longer booting twice. Very inconsistent, but perhaps it is related to that first boot after being off for a while.