Firstly, sorry about the late reply-I've been unwell, so I was keeping off the family computer so as not to "infect it with viruses"!
Could this be related?
I have been running off of a RAM disk from time to time. It works quite well, and I can run my favourite programs from floppy. That was until the morning two days ago :-/ .
I switched it on, waited for the hard disk to click and spin down, then popped my floppy in as usual. It started, the RAM disk loaded, then as soon as the RamDisk INIT was supposed to eject the floppy, the machine froze. So I reformatted the boot disk using an image of a good version (I assumed this one to have become corrupted-I change settings sometimes).
Then, of course, the hard disk decides to go, so I use that insted (without testing the boot floppy yet). I load the program-no problem. I open the file (file's not corrupt-tried other files too, and they also had a problem) and the program quits/crashes. Afterwards the Finder's menu bar is all greyed out, and when I open a menu, I get all sorts of red, green and blue smudge underneath!
Could these both be signs of RAM trouble, and could that be linked to failing capacitors?
Even stranger, it booted fine from the RAM disk, and loaded the file, soon afterwards, and hasn't shown trouble again since then :?: .
Could this be related?
I have been running off of a RAM disk from time to time. It works quite well, and I can run my favourite programs from floppy. That was until the morning two days ago :-/ .
I switched it on, waited for the hard disk to click and spin down, then popped my floppy in as usual. It started, the RAM disk loaded, then as soon as the RamDisk INIT was supposed to eject the floppy, the machine froze. So I reformatted the boot disk using an image of a good version (I assumed this one to have become corrupted-I change settings sometimes).
Then, of course, the hard disk decides to go, so I use that insted (without testing the boot floppy yet). I load the program-no problem. I open the file (file's not corrupt-tried other files too, and they also had a problem) and the program quits/crashes. Afterwards the Finder's menu bar is all greyed out, and when I open a menu, I get all sorts of red, green and blue smudge underneath!
Could these both be signs of RAM trouble, and could that be linked to failing capacitors?
Even stranger, it booted fine from the RAM disk, and loaded the file, soon afterwards, and hasn't shown trouble again since then :?: .