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From: philip@hubcap.UUCP (Philip L Harshman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: My sick Mac (sigh)
Keywords: sick mac 0f000a error code
Message-ID: <3331@hubcap.UUCP>
Date: 24 Oct 88 15:42:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: hubcap.3331
Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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My Mac (a Plus with still only 1 Meg of memory) has started to behave
strangely.  Sometimes on boot-up, it will refuse to load the Finder and when
I do a restart, I will get the sick Mac icon with the number "0F000A" under
it.  I can always get it to load if I try a couple of times, but this is
annoying.  I am running with lots of INITs and the amount of memory used
during startup is variable thanks to Randomizer.  I have not encountered
this problem when I didn't have my INITs in the System Folder, but since the
problem is intermittent anyway, that doesn't mean much.  I am still using
the Systems Tools 5.0 release since we haven't gotten 6.0.2 here yet and a
Photon 30 drive.

My local repair person can't find any reference to that error code, so I'm
appealing to the net for help.  I would suspect a software problem and hope
that reinstalling the system (or upgrading to the new one) will make it go
away, but I was under the impression that the sick Mac codes were for
hardware problems discovered by the self tests.  Can software generate a
sick Mac icon?  Or am I definitely going to have to take my Mac in for
surgery?   Thanks all.
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Philip Harshman                         uucp: ... !gatech!hubcap!philip
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