17 Nov
2001
17 Nov
'01
2:35 p.m.
Right now, one of the two boxes is sitting, and has
been for several hours,
trying to reconstruct the work surface, or whatever it's called. It doesn't
look as though it needs that service, but the machine won't go beyond that
point. It's about 4:45 now and it's been at it since about 2:30. I'm
inclined
to try a backup on the other machine, if that's possible.
Sounds like you may have a problem with the OS. Unless you know the
direct history of these machines (ie: you know everything that has been
run and installed on them), I would recommend you reformat and reinstall
the OS from scratch. Sitting waiting for the Finder do come up is
definatly NOT normal. You mentioned in a previous post that you had
problems with the mouse cursor freezing for a while, and then coming
back... that shouldn't happen, and the fact that it does really tells me
you have something wrong. Could be an extension conflict, could be a
virus, could be a corrupt file. But since you aren't a very mac literate
person (yet... once you start using it, you will catch on fast), you are
best off just wiping the drive and installing the OS from scratch.
You can download System 7.5.5 from Apple's web site, or if you want it on
a bootable CD, let me know, I will be happy to send you one. If you have
the CD that came with the Mac, it should let you totally restore the
drive to factory settings... unfortunatly, I don't recall if the Performa
630 came with a restore CD or not (I know earlier performa's did not, I
am just not sure if apple started supplying it when they started shipping
ones with internal CDs). If you DO have a restore CD for that machine,
then I would recommend you just run it. That will put you back to a
fresh, stable environment, with some basic applications that you can use.
From there, you can move to more advanced stuff.
-chris
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