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- From: mac@unison.com (Michael A. Casteel)
- Subject: Re: PB booting problem: HD not found
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.231828.4311@unison.com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 23:18:28 GMT
- Distribution: usa
- References: <1992Nov9.160731.2883@unison.com>
- Organization: Unison-Tymlabs
- Keywords: PowerBook startup help
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- I may have posted originally in the wrong group (mac.system). At any
- rate, it's too late to cross-post, so here is a copy of the original.
-
- >Ever since I upgraded my PB100 to 8Meg, half the time I boot it up
- >from shutdown, it comes up to the '?' icon like it can't find the
- >HD (which I also recently upgraded to 40Mb, but the problem didn't
- >start until I also took the memory up to 8Mb). So far, I have
- >been able to cure the problem by pressing the reset button (the one
- >closest to the front of the keyboard); the PB resets and proceeds
- >to boot from the HD. It always works first time.
-
- >Does anybody know what the problem is likely to be?
-
- >So, I was thinking it was something to do with SCSI. But, I thought
- >the ROM sent a SCSI reset every now and then when sitting at the
- >'?' icon anyway. I don't know what else pressing the reset button
- >would do to cause my PB to boot up. Could the 40Mb drive be 'slow' to
- >spin up?
-
- Other things are happening, so I'll be checking and reseating the 8Mb
- upgrade board; maybe memory problem could cause the HD boot failure?
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- Mike Casteel Unison Tymlabs
- mac@unison.com 675 Almanor Ave., Sunnyvale, CA
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