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- From: sold@kit.uni-kl.de (Christoph Sold)
- Subject: Re: HELP!!! IIsi hangs after boot!
- Message-ID: <sold.122.725908334@kit.uni-kl.de>
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- Organization: Universitaet Kaiserslautern
- References: <Bzt0AC.HC2@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 17:12:14 GMT
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- In article <Bzt0AC.HC2@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- thf28310@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd) writes:
- >
- >I have a Mac IIsi and I recently encountered a problem during start-up.
- >I turn my mac's power on and after the "Welcome to Macintosh" screen
- >appears, the system hangs for about 10 minutes. (Occasionally, the Hard
- >Drive makes noise.) Then, after the 10 minutes, the Finder loads normally.
- >Everything is then fine, just as if nothing was wrong. I've checked for
- >viruses and anomolies, but have found none. I've reinitalized my hard
- >drive and reinstalled the system and the problem still persists. I don't
- >have ANY inits loded.
- >
- >Please help!!! I'm desperate! If you have any ideas as to what the problem
- >might be please send me some mail. Thank you in advance.
- >
- >-Todd Faulstich
- >thf28310@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
- >
- >PS: I've booted from a floppy and the same thing happens.
-
- Todd,
- have you a VERY big hard disk, and not used the Shutdown menu to switch off
- your Mac?
- If so, the mac inspects the complete hard disk for any errors/defects/
- leftovers from a recent system crash (which needs big times on big volumes).
- -Christoph
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