Hi
I have some old very capable scanners that can only be run via OS9 and have been having alot of trouble with my current g4 and os9.
I kept having crashes, freezing during the boot process or soon thereafter. I thought it might be the drive beginning to fail. I had a spare PCI SATA card so I managed to hook up a couple of 120GB SSDs, dragging over files from the original boot drive and making what seemed to be a fully functioning copy of the original drive. Unfortunately, that did not solve the problem and I am still experiencing frequent freezes and crashes.
I've swapped RAM sticks, changed the battery, reseated the PCI cards, rebuilt the desktop, zapped the PRAM, booted with extensions off and tried to turn off any unneeded extensions. Still getting the crashes.
To add insult to injury, the scanner that used to show up via the SCSI connection no longer shows up. At this point I'd probably prefer to have a computer that crashed intermittently but still allowed me to scan than a non-crashing computer but no scanner. As it stands I have neither! I'm wondering if the graphics card can cause issues. I had 2 copies of the Adaptec SCSI card (and cables) and swapping them didn't make a difference.
Any ideas on next steps?
Thanks in advance!