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Subject: Re: Mayday, mayday, mayday - i'm in dee
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Date: 26 Jul 90 17:58:00 GMT
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/* Written  9:15 am  Jul 18, 1990 by roessli@sc2a.unige.ch in inmet:comp.sys.mac.system */
/* ---------- "Mayday, mayday, mayday - i'm in dee" ---------- */
Mayday, mayday, mayday ..

    i'm experiencing deep trouble with a Mac IIx and various peripherics,
and was wondering if any of you out there had seen anything like it before.
Here it comes:

Context: we've purchased a Mac IIx, 8Mb RAM, 1 external 142Mb LaCie disk, 1
         internal 192Mb LaCie disk (Tsunami or something like that), Sigma
         Design ColorMax 19" screen (8 bits), Apple's CD-ROM drive, Ethernet
         board, Howtek ScanMaster II (with internal board).

         The whole thing upgraded to version 6.0.5

         Inits and CDevs: Suitcase, Rear window, Boomerang, On Cue, SuperClock,
         EtherTalk and Apple CDs stuff, NBGIB handler (scanner), Vaccine,
         GateKeeper Aid and Dimmer.
                                                        .. and all goes wrong!

:david (might well go back to PCs in the end.. - cynic ?)

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Yeah, I'd go back to the PC's...

(Disclaimer: I'm a rabbid IBM'er.  However, please don't start a flame fest.)

As to your problem, I've seen several suggestions that you strip all of the
non-essential hardware and try running that way to see what happens.  A good
idea, but I think you may want to try something else first (it's easier).

Do the same thing with your *software*.  I'm no mac.expert, but computah's is
computah's, and they all suffer from software incompatibilites, some more
than others.  I watched with glee as GateKeeper and SAMintercept battled it
out on several of my fiends' systems - cursors mutating, icons scrambling...
Try removing all of you INITS and CDEVS and booting up.  If all works well,
start re-installing them - *one at a time* - until things go BOOM.

Just by eyeballing it - network drivers (in general) are notorious for
making systems unstable; add in your CD-ROM stuff and a scanner driver and
that may be more than it can take.  Also, like I said above, I've seen
GateKeeper do some *really* interesting stuff.  Try it out - besides, it's
easier than pulling all of your boards...

-Chris


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