[G4] repair

[Harry Freeman]

Greetings ( + )!( + )

It sounds like you are kind of new to the Apple Macintosh platform, so  
lets start with:

1) Do a COLD START, which means turn the platform off and wait at  
least 30 seconds before starting again. When you hear the start-up  
bong hold down the following keys, ALL OF THEM TOGETHER - CMD, OPTION,  
P & R - this will cause the PRAM to reset. Be sure to keep holding  
these keys until you hear the start-up bong at least 3 times.

2) After you hear the start-up bong the 3rd. time switch from the keys  
that you are holding down to the following keys. CMD, OPTION, O & F -  
this will bring up the OPEN FIRMWARE  screen and you should end up  
with a > prompt. Then enter reset_nvram (enter) set_defaults (enter)  
reset_all (enter) at which time the platform will restart.

3) Down load and install the application applejack from http://applejack.sourceforge.net/
The instructions for using applejack are listed on the sourceforge  
page so I will not list them here.

Be sure to install applejack on both of your disk drives. You can only  
start-up applejack from the disk that is designated as the current  
start-up drive, so is your bad drive is HD1 then select it as the  
start-up drive and the use the applejack procedure to get into the  
applejack application.

After you run applejack on your HD1 restart the G4 platform and run  
the applejack application at least twice. You see sometimes problems  
are covered up by other problems and the first pass of applejack may  
only clean-up the first set of problems.

Cheers

Harry
San Jose, Ca
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On Oct 20, 2009, at 9:08 PM, RELNGSON at aol.com wrote:

>> ....When you say "repaired HD1 from HD2" do you mean that you  
>> cloaned one
>> to the other useing CCC?....
>
> No, from HD2 (the normal one) I launched Disk Utilities, selected  
> HD1 and clicked "repair disk". The report was "no trouble found." I  
> also repaired and verified disk permissions from the same screen.  
> Both drives have OS 10.4.11 and HD1 also has OS9.2 as I posted.
>
> I don't know what CCC is.
> -------------------
> ......Your second paragraph perplexes me:
>
> "The problem is that the color is washed out and cannot be adjusted
> using System Preferences." What color are you referring to? .........
>
> All colors, on the screen.
>
> Colors are adjusted in System Preferences/Displays/Color/Calibrate/ 
> Expert mode. The following adjustment panels are mostly grayed out.  
> This is one of the reasons why I did an archive and install,  
> thinking that proper function would be restored. Didn't work.
>
> RE/Seattle
>
>
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