Powermac 6500 freezing on startup

[RadRacer203]

So earlier tonight I was using Classilla on my 6500, and all was going well until it froze. Had to pull the power cord on it. Now when I restart, it seems to try to open classilla and resume what I was doing and freezes again. Booting with extensions disabled does nothing, and it does the same thing when I boot from CD somehow. Any ideas how and can solve this? Really don't want to have to wipe the drive and start fresh cause I just spent a month trying to get everything working and playing nicely

 

[3lectr1cPPC]

I'd try taking the hard drive out and using either a USB adapter (if you have one), or a newer OS X Mac with IDE (again, if you have one), and just deleting Classilla altogether. Then see if the issue is resolved.

 

[RadRacer203]

Yeah, that's what I was trying to do with the CDs, my problem right now is I don't have anything with OSX. Maybe an OSX cd will work?

 

[3lectr1cPPC]

I don't think you can mount a file system over an OS X CD unfortunately, nor will OS X boot on a 6500 without a tool like X Post Facto as far as I know. My only other idea would be to try a Mac OS CD with a version that Classilla doesn't support, such as 7.x?

 

[Powerbase]

I think something else must have occured to your 6500. Classila most likely has nothing to do with it.

Does your cdrom work fine? If its still doing it booting from a cd, then I would say there is something wrong hardware-wise (ram, etc).

 

[RadRacer203]

Ok, looks like I managed to get it working again. I pulled the drive out of the 6500, and used one of those cheapo usb adapters to plug it into a mac clone I have, and was able to delete Classilla. All good now after it threw a small fit on startup cause those files were gone

 

[Powerbase]

Ok, looks like I managed to get it working again. I pulled the drive out of the 6500, and used one of those cheapo usb adapters to plug it into a mac clone I have, and was able to delete Classilla. All good now after it threw a small fit on startup cause those files were gone

Does classila put anything in the system folder? Strange

 

[RadRacer203]

Does classila put anything in the system folder? Strange

No, it just seemed to be that it was attempting to resume what I was doing when the computer got shut off, which was trying to access a website that made it freeze