barry@primerd.prime.com (03/02/89)
My Mac-II with Apple 12" color monitor crashed earlier today when I
ran SoundMaster 1.2 from control panel w/o having rebooted the
system. When I restarted by using the programmer's switch, the Mac
would not reboot properly. I get the smiling Mac followed by the
rectangle that normally says "Welcome to Macintosh", but before the
text appears, the top half of the rectangle shimmers, the system
sits for awhile with a blank rectangle with top half shimmering, and
then random noise appears on the screen. I was able to restart by
booting with a floppy and normal booting occured when I replaced the
System file on my hard drive with a backup copy.
It looks like my System file got damaged. Does anyone have any idea
what might be wrong with it and what I might do to correct it? The
only changes of note that I lost were some uses of Kolor - no big
deal. I saved a copy of the damaged System file in case it could be
fixed simply. In case it's relevant, I normally use 256 colors and
System 6.0.2.
Has any had any problems such as this with SoundMaster 1.2? I
downloaded it from SUMEX archives a few days ago.
Any advice will be appreciated. I'll be travelling next week and
won't be able to follow comp.sys.mac, so please reply by mail.
Thanks, Barry
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Barry Wolman | barry@s66.prime.com
Principal Technical Consultant | 492 Old Connecticut Path
Prime Computer | Framingham, Ma. 02192
| 508/626-17090, ext. 4187barry@primerd.prime.com (03/02/89)
Its now the Day After and I have a better description of what happens when I try to reboot with the damaged system. The "Welcome to Macintosh" line DOES appear, after which the top part of the rectangle shimmers, the text disappears, and the Mac-II sits there with a blank rectangle. I'm up and running with a backup version of System, so its mainly curiosity that leads me to inquire as to what is wrong with the System file. Thanks, Barry