vinmacguy said:
my trusty ol' blueberry since 1999 has recently started giving off a loud tone during start up. it sometimes starts up in a terminal looking text line asking if i want to continue to boot...type "mac-boot" which i do...but then nothing happens so i have to re-start and it boots or i have to put in a OS 10.3.9 boot disk...even though it has the original 8.6 on it.
soooo whats goin on? help..
thanks
sorry, can you clarify? You're running OS8.6 on the machine? Or are you running both OS8.6
and OSX10.3.9?
I'd check your firmware against the Apple website and see if you're up to date. And in any case, I'd ditch OS8.6 (which
completely sucked IMHO) and at least upgrade to OS9.
Could be your HD is failing, too. If it's the original HD from 1999 I'd have to consider it a distinct possibility.
EDIT: in my experience, a weird tone during startup is usually indicative of a hardware issue. Just so you know...