Weird QuickTime problem

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From: Ben Lovejoy
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 00:00

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Anyone come across this one?

My PB3400 has developed some conflict/problem with QT3 which results in the
machine hanging during startup with an 'addr error'. If I remove the
QuickTime extension from the extensions folder, it boots ok. Reinstalling a
clean copy of QT3 makes no difference - same thing. I *think* there's a
conflict with some part of Office98.

Now, the weird bit is that when I try QT2.5 instead, it starts up ok but
then when anything needs QT it reports 'QuickTime is not installed'.
Deleting the QT and app prefs files makes no difference, nor does a
parameter reset.

Any ideas?

I will be doing a low-level format and complete re-install of everything,
but am currently awaiting a repair so don't want to have to do it twice
(it's non-trivial as I have to backup onto 100Mb zip drives).

Ben

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Ben Lovejoy                    | 'To see tomorrow's PC,
ben@lovejoy.demon.co.uk        |  look at today's Macintosh'
http://www.lovejoy.demon.co.uk |  -- BYTE, Oct 1995

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