philip@hubcap.UUCP (Philip L Harshman) (10/24/88)
My Mac (a Plus with still only 1 Meg of memory) has started to behave strangely. Sometimes on boot-up, it will refuse to load the Finder and when I do a restart, I will get the sick Mac icon with the number "0F000A" under it. I can always get it to load if I try a couple of times, but this is annoying. I am running with lots of INITs and the amount of memory used during startup is variable thanks to Randomizer. I have not encountered this problem when I didn't have my INITs in the System Folder, but since the problem is intermittent anyway, that doesn't mean much. I am still using the Systems Tools 5.0 release since we haven't gotten 6.0.2 here yet and a Photon 30 drive. My local repair person can't find any reference to that error code, so I'm appealing to the net for help. I would suspect a software problem and hope that reinstalling the system (or upgrading to the new one) will make it go away, but I was under the impression that the sick Mac codes were for hardware problems discovered by the self tests. Can software generate a sick Mac icon? Or am I definitely going to have to take my Mac in for surgery? Thanks all. -- Philip Harshman uucp: ... !gatech!hubcap!philip Employed by Clemson University inet: philip@hubcap.clemson.edu although they have no idea that bitnet: philip@clemson I'm doing this. (So don't tell!) phone: (803) 656-3697
macman@ethz.UUCP (Danny Schwendener) (10/29/88)
In article <3331@hubcap.UUCP> philip@hubcap.UUCP (Philip L Harshman) writes: >My Mac (a Plus with still only 1 Meg of memory) has started to behave >strangely. Sometimes on boot-up, it will refuse to load the Finder and when >I do a restart, I will get the sick Mac icon with the number "0F000A" under That code indicates that the 68000 fell through an F-trap *after* the hardware diagnostics were passed, but before the system was completely installed. I'd suggest you to change your system and, if the error still occurs sporadically, check if an INIT is the culprit. I don't believe this is a hardware error, although it still might be one, you never know... -- Danny +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Mail : Danny Schwendener, ETH Macintosh Support | | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH-8092 Zuerich | | Bitnet : macman@czheth5a UUCP : {cernvax,mcvax}ethz!macman | | Internet: macman@ifi.ethz.ch Voice : yodel three times | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+