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Hey all,
I have a 1.42 PPC mac mini with 512 RAM. My friend gave it to me because he said it wouldn't start up for him and he had sent it back to apple a few times and finally gave up and got an imac or something. So he gave me this. I reset the PRAM and it started up, but it was really slow. I realized it only had 256mb RAM. I got a 512 stick erased and re-installed the original software and it's still swamped. It has trouble starting up. It starts up but anytime I try to go look at a folder, open a new finder window, open system preferences, or anything I get the rainbow pinwheel. I have an eMac, and an old iMac so I'm not really without a computer but I'd like to solve this problem. I booted up from the disc and ran disk utility and it had a count problem with the index.dfb file? Not sure what that is. Did a repair on the drive and it didn't really change much. Any suggestions? I've tried to read other peoples similar problems but I just can't solve it. thanks - david
I have a 1.42 PPC mac mini with 512 RAM. My friend gave it to me because he said it wouldn't start up for him and he had sent it back to apple a few times and finally gave up and got an imac or something. So he gave me this. I reset the PRAM and it started up, but it was really slow. I realized it only had 256mb RAM. I got a 512 stick erased and re-installed the original software and it's still swamped. It has trouble starting up. It starts up but anytime I try to go look at a folder, open a new finder window, open system preferences, or anything I get the rainbow pinwheel. I have an eMac, and an old iMac so I'm not really without a computer but I'd like to solve this problem. I booted up from the disc and ran disk utility and it had a count problem with the index.dfb file? Not sure what that is. Did a repair on the drive and it didn't really change much. Any suggestions? I've tried to read other peoples similar problems but I just can't solve it. thanks - david