System errors: illegal instruction & bus error

[dogslikeus]

My Mac Beige G3 running OS 9.2 was running fine till last night.

I installed a Belkin Firewire PCI card which worked fine. System Profiler recognized the Lacie D2 Firewire CD Burner and through this device, I opened the bundled software and installed Toast Lite.

Upon completion of the installation, I had to press Restart and that's when the problems started, first with:

"Sorry, a system error occurred. illegal instruction. To temporarily turn off extensions, restart and hold the shift key. Restart"

I tried this and the system software freezes before loading any of the extension icons on the desktop.

Ok, so then I booted off Norton Utilites version 8.0 and fixed a bunch of B-Tree, file name bad date problems. Ran Disk Doctor again and No Problems Found.

Tried to restart again and got same error.

Used Norton's Wipe utility to remove 5 Toast extensions and then restarted to find similar error message as above, except "illegal instruction" is now "bus error".

Tried restarting with extensions off to no avail.

I then tried restarting with the CD burner unplugged from the CPU, and then again with the PCI Firewire Card removed from the internal slot.

Nothing has worked. Please help!!!

 

[PTmon]

Try zapping your pram
PT

Hold down option+command+p+r until you hear the start up chime 3 times. Then let go and see what happens.

http://mahon.homeip.net/remember

 

[dogslikeus]

It worked...temporarily. I was able to restart, then I defragged my disk with Norton Utilities.

Then, I re-installed the Firewire PCI card and when I turned on the computer, all the problems again accept this time zapping the pram doesn't help!

Should I do a "hard shutdown" and remove the Firewire PCI card?

Thanks.

 

[dogslikeus]

It worked...temporarily. I was able to restart, then I defragged my disk with Norton Utilities.

Then, I re-installed the Firewire PCI card and when I turned on the computer, all the problems again accept this time zapping the pram doesn't help!

Should I do a "hard shutdown" and remove the Firewire PCI card?

Thanks.