</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by takaplan:
<strong>Hi,
This is my first post; hopefully someone can help me.
I have a G3 with Mac OS 9...when I boot up, I get an error "Illegal Instruction" and I have to restart. The only way to boot up is to use the Mac OS 9 CD or use extensions off.
By toggling the extensions, I narrowed it down to Shared Library Manager and Shared Library Manager PPC as the cause of the problem. When I turn them off, I boot fine. But no programs work without them on (they give errors about not being able to access certain lib files). However, after I reinstalled new copies of Shared Library Manager and Shared Library Manager PPC from my system CD, I still crash on startup.
Can anyone help me? I zapped my PRAM and updated disk drivers...is there any way to solve this without reinstalling Mac OS?
Thanks!</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Hmm, there might be a problem with the extensions, or some other extention causing a problem that that extention is suffering from.
I am not sure, try looking for the same extensions on the boot disk and try swaping them.
What sort of error at startup is it? sad mac? Bomb error?