[kahlan]

Good day everyone,

I recently acquired an old clamshell. I thought it would be an inexpensive way to get a taste of Mac. When I received it, it was running perfect and have had no problems for the two months I've owned it.

I decided I wanted to partition it so I could have OS X, OS 9, and Linux on
there own volumes. The partitioning part went fine (I did it through Disk Utility). However my first attempt- Installed 10.3 and 9.2, once I did nine I couldn't start up in 10 again. It showed on the disk start up, but once selected and restarted, it went to 9. Also, what was most alarming is the memory which was at 288 MB, now only showed the original 64 MB! On the Mac info page it is listed as not supported!

So, where did I go wrong? I would like to do a clean reformat (if there is one),
do the partitions and get my ram back. I would be forever in your debt if anyone can help me out.

Thanks in advance,
Kahlan

[pat++]

Which clamshell model is it? 466Mhz? or older? You can try to reset the PRAM by holding command-option-P-R keys during startup until you hear the startup sound again. It might help with the memory issue.

Concerning startup on Mac OS X, how did you select the System used for startup? under OS 9 ? Was OS X already running on this computer before?

[kahlan]

It's 366 Mhz. I think I'm starting to understand the problem here. Your post made me remember something the OS 9 prompted me to do. It had me do your suggestion for some ifirm up-date (whatever that is). It must have some how disabled my additional memory and that is probably why I couldn't boot to OS X. I did try resetting the Pram again, but no luck. What would be my options at this point? Try re-install the additional memory?

Thanks for your help!

[pat++]

If you were prompted to update the firmware, it might be why your memory is not recognized anymore. See the Apple Tech Note below :

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=60839

If it's the case, I guess you need to replace the additional memory...

[kahlan]

Thanks for all your help. I found a program called DIMM First Aid, http://www.mactcp.org.nz/dimmfirstaid.html

and it fix the problem! Now I can get on with my life.

Thanks again.