Re: [NTLK] [OT] Yet another Mac question

From: L.W. Brown <lwb_at_mac.com>
Date: Wed Jul 02 2008 - 23:09:14 EDT

A program called Conflict Catcher was very necessary for OS8 & 9 - it
allowed you to reorder the load order, which could be a real problem,
and create extension sets, so that you could restart and run more
difficult extensions only when you needed them, turning off the ones
they did not play nicely with.

Also, if I correctly remember an earlier discussion, you might
consider dropping back to 9.1.something, as 9.2 was really only for
OSX compatibility, and had some stability problems in systems not
intended for OSX...

Just can't remember if you can boot off a zipdisk - the problem is
getting the zip driver to load before the system is needed...

On 2. Jul.,`08, at 22:54 EDT, Matt Howe wrote:

> I'll have to do some checking with my IR thermometer but I would not
> think
> it is thermal. First it will sometimes crash within two minutes of
> starting
> up cold and not running anything more complex than the Finder. As for
> cooling setup, besides the power supply fan, I added an 80 mm fan in
> the
> front of the case (the IBM case had a place for it.) and then used
> some thin
> plastic sheeting to duct the air flow directly over the CPU heat
> sync. I
> also had these issues when it was still in the AIO case. But I
> attributed it
> to the power supply as I was told it was going bad. But the new
> supply from
> the IBM case I checked via meter and I'm not big on the coincidence
> of two
> bad power supplies. I'll check the memory for what is installed. As
> for
> Extensions, I'll make a list and maybe someone can help me decide
> what I
> need? It also has a zip drive. I wonder if I can make a zip system
> disk and
> boot from there to see if it is the hard drive.

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