austinrick
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6360 won't start up! - 2008/04/18 18:43
The folks I bought the machine from won't respond to the following. Any help is greatly appreciated!:
Please advise so I can get my Performa running again. A few years ago I purchased a Performa 6360, monitor & keyboard from you guys. I believe I added more RAM, then installed the Sonnet G3 processor upgrade in the L2 cache slot. The computer has been a pleasure to use. I’ll add that the owner of XXX, who took my order and selected the pieces, installed OS 8.6 before shipping, so I don’t have any install or restore disks.
My 6360 spent two years in my office at Penn State during grad school, then was packed away from summer 2005 until last November. When I set it up, she would not start up completely. I figured the battery was long dead, and ordered another off Amazon.com (Ray O Vac 840). Installed that in late December (I don’t keep the machine here) and she started up on the 2nd try (perhaps even tried the Cmd-Opt-P-R). She has started up and run well since then, on the occasions I’ve had to use her.
Last month I set up an internet dial-up service so I could at least check e-mail when I’m at the house the 6360 is at. That went well for a week. The next time I was there, I fired up the computer, went online, and the screen froze after a couple of minutes. She has not booted up completely since then. I even bought another battery, thinking the first replacement was old and died in a few months. 6360 will not start up.
All seems normal until the first extension icon appears on the start-up screen; the screen freezes at that point. Cmd-Opt-P-R does not help. Can you offer any advise or technique to force this computer to start up? I’d hate to lose it now, it’s been such a good one and I sure need to be online at my other address. Your help is really appreciated.
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