uncacj@uncecs.edu (Charles G. James Jr.) (12/13/89)
Help! I have a Mac SE/30 with 1M RAM and a 40M internal HardDisk about 30% full. What started out as a intermitent error now has become constant. I turn on the computer and it will go through the normal startup procedure, I assume. It will display the Startupscreen and show an INIT icon. The screen and menus will look normal and act normally as long as I do not start anything. I can select and deselect the hard disk icon and pull down all of the menus. If I try to do anything either by menu or double clicking it will begin with the expanding box graphic then the system hangs. Even if I try Shutdown at this point, it will hang. If I reset the system same behavior. For a while if I turned the computer off and waited a while(1 day) the problem would disappear. Now, no dice. I tried to start the computer using a floppy disk based system folder which gave the same behavior. If I try to use some of the DA,s same behavior. In each case it looks normal with the mouse cusor responding etc, until I actually try to do something. The computer is still under warranty so I cannot open the case to explore but our dealer always wants to know what is wrong before they fix the problem. By the way this is the second problem I have had with this SE/30, it seems I was one of the ones who got the bad hard disks. Any help will be appreciated. -- Charles G. James, Jr. Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Asheville 2 Asheville NC 28804 BITNET: uncacj@ecsvax