patfieldk@jordache.UUCP (Kevin M. Patfield) (01/05/91)
Last night I installed 4MB of Ram for a friend and
removed the dead 20MB Miniscribe from his SE which he
has replaced with a 40MB external drive. As all seemed
to be well, I upgraded his system to 6.0.5 and installed
a few of the goodies he was missing such as finder
sounds, cursor animator, map and a few DA's (basically
a subset of the inits, cdevs and DA's on my own SE).
We also installed an application called DrumFile 1.1
from "Blank Software" (no, really, that's what it said)
using its own supplied installer. This is a copy
protected application whose installer presumably copies
some invisible file to the hard disk, without which the
program won't run. The application seemed to work OK
but it does have the problem that when running under
multifinder it doesn't correctly redraw the desktop
when one of its windows is closed (it is about 5 years
old). Its installer had a version 3 system and finder
and would only run when used as the startup disk.
At some point in the proceedings finder sounds stopped
working. It may be when we installed or tested
DrumFile, it may have been at some other time. All I
can remember is that finder sounds worked fine at first
then just refused to work despite turning it off and on
in the control panel and rebooting.
After an hour or so of messing about, during which we
de-installed DrumFile and completely re-installed the
6.0.5/6.1.5 system using the installer on my locked apple
system disks, I decided to try to reproduce the problem
with a floppy based system. I copied the system file
from my system tools disk and added finder sounds and
finder sounds config from the system folder on my own SE.
To my utter amazement I found that if I started by own SE
from this disk, finder sounds worked but if I did the
same thing on my friend's SE (with or without his
external hard drive connected) it didn't work. The two
configurations were identical except for the fact that mine
was mounting the internal hard drive as a non-startup disk.
About this time I began to think that maybe there was a
problem with the Parameter RAM in his machine. I know
that this is involved in sound generation at least as
far as selecting the "beep" sound. I zapped the
parameter RAM but it made no difference, my SE still
played finder sounds and his didn't. By the way, his SE
generated all the beep sounds correctly (yes, I did
reconnect the speaker after adding the RAM).
Somewhere is the murky past I can remember some problem
with sounds during the migration to system 4 or 5. As
I recall there was a problem getting back to a simple
beep after trying the other sounds. Is this anything
to do with my problem? I've checked carefully for
viruses and found nothing. Am I justified in believing
that this is not a problem with the newly installed RAM
since this is checked at power up?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Please email to the address below, not via the path
above.
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Kevin Patfield, AG Communication Systems, Phoenix, AZ
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voice: (602) 581-4812 fax: (602) 582-7624Titus.Wong@f555.n161.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Titus Wong) (01/23/91)
Hello Kevin;
I am having the same problem with a Mac // at home and the other is at work
Mac //. I brought my working system home to my computer and it works. I
tried coping the system and other parts to my hard drive and reboot. It
still does not work with my hard drive.
Did you find a fix. The problem started for me when I upgraded to system
6.07 from 6.05
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