[DuoList] 2400 woes

[Roger Gouin]

A couple of quick thoughts, not that you don't know or haven't  
already done this.
Norton works great on those machines but sometimes it's tricky to get  
to the point where it will run through everything without error.  
Generally, I would deselect all but the third task down and repeat it  
until it got that right. And if Norton won't fix it, DW is more  
likely to do the job. Finally, have you attempted a low level format  
with the problem drive? -that might be best with a 3rd party HD appl.
Good luck Joe.
Roger
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On 4-May-09, at 10:54 AM, Joe Elliott wrote:

> First I guess I should introduce myself, as I'm new to the list.   
> I'm Joe, and I use a 2400c, which I've had for almost 4 years.  I'm  
> also a former Duo (280c and 2300c) user, and although I only  
> recently subscribed to this list, my brother used to be a member,  
> and I think this is probably how he put me in touch with the guy  
> who sold me my 2400 2005.
>
> Anyway, my 2400 has been entirely reliable until I started  
> monkeying with it.  about a year ago I misdiagnosed a sudden  
> battery failure as a bad power board, and replaced the power board  
> with one that failed a couple months later.  D'oh.  Then I took it  
> apart again (several times) a couple months ago to install a G3  
> upgrade and bigger hard drive.  The first time I got the GLOD, and  
> no PMU/PRAM reset attempts would cure it.  In hindsight I should  
> have just unplugged the PRAM battery when I did the upgrade.  But I  
> ended up taking it all apart again to swap in a spare logic board,  
> which worked fine with my G3 upgrade--hard to say if there was  
> really anything wrong with my original board, or just a fluke.  But  
> then the (upgraded) hard drive refused to boot while I was on  
> vacation a couple weeks ago.  I was able to rescue some files via  
> SCSI disk mode, but nothing Norton could do would make it boot, and  
> when I tried to reformat it via SCSI disk mode, it just crashed the  
> computer it was hooked up to.  So I took it apart again yesterday  
> to put the old hard drive back in, and ended up doing so twice,  
> because I initially installed the wrong hard drive.  D'oh.  And now  
> it's crashing left and right and is completely unusable.  Is this  
> what a NewerTech G3 does without the special drivers installed?   
> Bad memory?  I'll get Error 10s on startup, or shortly after  
> getting to the desktop, or a "the Finder doesn't have enough  
> memory" dialog I haven't seen before that includes only a restart  
> button, and sometimes the big smiley Mac OS face will stay on the  
> screen when the desktop is displayed following startup.  I'm also  
> getting a "built-in tests have found a problem with the cache  
> memory" error that would worry me except that I know I've seen it  
> at least once before since I installed the G3 upgrade, and I'd like  
> to think it's just a symptom of not having their drivers installed  
> (but now the thing is too unstable to install the drivers).  Any  
> suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Joe Elliott
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