My Beige G3 freezes when it gets to the desktop

[barkmonster]

It only happens when I boot up for the first time, sometimes I have to force restart twice to get it back to normal and then it's fine all day.

I've defragged my internal 6Gb drive (System folder/applications drive)

I've also defragged my other hard drive (1 partition for audio/1 for files)

I don't know how to sort this out, I've tried zapping the PRAM to see if that helps but it's like the internal hard drive is stalling when it gets to the desktop or something.

I'm running OS 9.1 with 192Mb of RAM, disk cache set to 512K and Virtual Memory disabled (required setup for running protools LE)

Can anyone help, I'm hoping it's not my internal HD going nuts because I can't really afford to replace it right now ?

[zarathustra]

Hmm,

You probably went through this already, but maybe you have conflicting extensions, or extensions that don't want to play nice. Or you might have something in your "Startup Items" that's messing up. Have you tried turning all your extensions and startup items off and restarting? If it boots and doesn't freeze it's a long process of eliminating the culprit extension/startup item.

Conflict Catcher will simplify this process, but still will take hours.

Hope this helps.

[teabgs]

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[iN8]

Originally posted by zarathustra
Hmm,

You probably went through this already, but maybe you have conflicting extensions, or extensions that don't want to play nice. Or you might have something in your "Startup Items" that's messing up. Have you tried turning all your extensions and startup items off and restarting? If it boots and doesn't freeze it's a long process of eliminating the culprit extension/startup item.

Conflict Catcher will simplify this process, but still will take hours.

Hope this helps.


He's right. I had the same problem as you are having. I froze at the desktop 2 out of three times. I disabled all but "OS 9 all" extensions and it worked fine. Then began the process of finding the misbehaving extension.

It turned out to be the extension for my ethernet card, after much trial and error.

iN8