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Hi everyone,

I have a Powerbook 5300CS with OS 8.1. I haven't used it in a couple of years but today I decided to work with it. I booted it up and everything looked good except the date and time was wrong. I corrected them and shut it down and hooked up my external CD ROM and external touch pad. When I turned it back on it only got as far as the boot screen and the boot indicator didn't even get a quarter of the way before it froze. I removed the CD ROM and touch pad and tried it again but it still locks up at the boot screen at the same time. Any ideas?
TIA!

-HJR

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It could be an extension. Try booting with extensions disabled.

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It could be an extension. Try booting with extensions disabled.

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Hold down the shift key while booting to disable extensions. If that doesn't work, reset the pram and try again (cmd alt p r). Your pram battery will definately be dead so you'll loose the date and time.

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