Mac Forum / General / Hardware / February 2006

Stephen Buggie                                           (505) 863-2390
Psychology Department
Univ. of New Mexico, Gallup                      February 15, 2006
200 College Road
Gallup NM 87301                                         buggie@unm.edu

NEED RESCUE DISK!  MAC SE -- BOMB System Error / Address Error
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Dear Macintosh experts,

My Mac SE crashes at power-up. I gives the bell-chime, then it proceeds
though the launch sequence. After showing two extension-icons, it crashes.
Then a dialogue-box shows the BOMB icon with the message, SORRY, A SYSTEM
ERROR HAS OCCURRED --- ADDRESS ERROR  It never reaches the desktop; this
crash occurs every time.

The Mac SE has a 330 meg internal hard drive, System 6.x.x, and a 1.4 meg
internal 3.5 floppy drive. There is a SCSI port but no internal CD reader.
The b/w screen is extremely sharp in its focus. The computer worked fine
until about a year ago, when I stupidly put a file in the wrong folder. It
has crashed consistently ever since!  It has an assortment of software on
the hard drive, but I have backups of everything and am willing to
reformat the entire hard drive if necessary to get the computer working
again! If I can resurrect the computer, I hope to upgrade the system to
System 7.0 or 7.1 .

DONE SO FAR: Yes, I have launched it with shift-key down, to turn off the
extensions, but it always crashes  Ive also tried various rescue disks but
most are not recognized when in the floppy drive. Best luck was with
NORTON UTILITIES  APPLICATION ! FLOPPY DISK. This disk loads at power-up,
and I was able to use SPEED DISK to optimize the hard drive. None of the
other functions of this Norton disk could be activated. It has a companion
disk, Norton Utilities Application 2 disk, but at power-up, the hard drive
ignores Norton #2, spinning up the hard drive until the port of inevitable
crash.

    I have Ted Landaus (1997) book, SAD MACS, BOMBS, AND OTHER
DISASTERS. The book describes many types of System Errors, but there is no
mention of address errors.

    WHAT ELSE CAN I DO???? Im willing to erase the hard drive if
necessary. System 7.1 floppies are on their way from someone.  Does anyone
of a rescue disk that can fix this so-called  system error / address
error? I will pay postage costs if anyone can send me a rescue disk.

    Please send advice. Please copy your reply to my e-mail address
buggie@unm.edu .   Thanks,  Steve Buggie, UNM-Gallup, 200 College Road,
Gallup NM   87301
Home phone  (505) 863-7504

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