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General => HELP BOARD ! Installing & Troubleshooting the Classic Mac OS => Topic started by: Europa on November 22, 2019, 03:10:20 PM

Title: System Profiler Crashing the System
Post by: Europa on November 22, 2019, 03:10:20 PM
Ok, so this is a bit of an odd issue. All of a sudden one day, whenever I'd open up the system profiler in Mac OS 9, it hard locks the system. I have done a few tests and it looks to be an issue with an extension or a control panel, as when I boot up with extensions off it doesn't lock up the system.

What is the best way to figure out the offensive extension? I have Conflict Catcher, so enabling/disabling extensions manually isn't too hard, but I would be interested if there was a way I could do this automatically.
Title: Re: System Profiler Crashing the System
Post by: IIO on November 22, 2019, 04:28:06 PM
the fastest path is to remove everything third party and then perform trial and error using an arbitrarily chosen 50% of that to isolate the bad boy.
Title: Re: System Profiler Crashing the System
Post by: Europa on November 23, 2019, 07:45:29 PM
Ok, thank you! Is there any way to streamline the process with CC or should I stick to manually doing it?
Title: Re: System Profiler Crashing the System
Post by: IIO on November 24, 2019, 03:32:12 AM
i cant tell you offhand if it is faster to debug. try it, if you dont get a result, go back to ยง1 ;)
Title: Re: System Profiler Crashing the System
Post by: Europa on November 24, 2019, 04:07:05 PM
Ok, thanks :)
Title: Re: System Profiler Crashing the System
Post by: Europa on November 26, 2019, 03:55:21 PM
Well, I found the culprit: the CD/DVD extensions. I know the reason for this too, it's because I installed an HP DVD burner to replace my failing Pioneer drive. The HP never worked right in OS X and I thought it was working fine in OS 9, but I guess not.

I know what I'm buying next for my Power Mac ;)