hello people, I am a bit stuck in trying to help a friend whose 8600 suddenly 'went wrong', so that all you get when you boot up normally is happy mac, chime, blue mac desktop wallpaper and white menu bar at top of page - and a free cursor. No date, no time, no menus, no icons, nothing. It loads extensions on the welcome page, but it just never gets to loading anything else when the desktop appears.
I am not really a Mac person. PC's are my 'thing' and I can usually get them up on their hind legs again when they fall down - but Macs....
Anyway, it runs fine from CD, you get all the desktop icons, you can get into the hard drive, use Sherlock and Finder, all that sort of stuff, so we have attached an external scsi drive and copied most of the docs over to that, I have run Techtools and Fixit utilities on it, and though a few problems were found, these were all fixed, according to Techtools, and so I installed OS 9 again, the only glitch there being that it could not update Quicktime, so I skipped that and the rest of the install went ok - but we are no further forward. You still only see a blank desktop.
What else can I try? The disk seems to be healthy, the system files all in place and no obvious errors - but something clearly isn't happening. Same thing if you run without extensions.
I am unwilling to reformat ( though I will if there is no option), but can't think what else to do, and have such limited knowledge of the system, don't know where to look for answers, so I came on here....
I am not really a Mac person. PC's are my 'thing' and I can usually get them up on their hind legs again when they fall down - but Macs....
Anyway, it runs fine from CD, you get all the desktop icons, you can get into the hard drive, use Sherlock and Finder, all that sort of stuff, so we have attached an external scsi drive and copied most of the docs over to that, I have run Techtools and Fixit utilities on it, and though a few problems were found, these were all fixed, according to Techtools, and so I installed OS 9 again, the only glitch there being that it could not update Quicktime, so I skipped that and the rest of the install went ok - but we are no further forward. You still only see a blank desktop.
What else can I try? The disk seems to be healthy, the system files all in place and no obvious errors - but something clearly isn't happening. Same thing if you run without extensions.
I am unwilling to reformat ( though I will if there is no option), but can't think what else to do, and have such limited knowledge of the system, don't know where to look for answers, so I came on here....