Holding down "shift" during startup causes an "address error" with a prompt

while booting from a dedicated OS 9.2.2 drive,...
holding down "shift" during startup causes an "address error" with a prompt to restart holding the shift button,...
an ideas,....?
it otherwise starts up fine normally,....
with spacebar depressed everything good too,.... into extensions manager...
but booting with extensions off causes that address error crash just before desktop is to appear,...
hmmm,.... ideas,....?
thanx

Well, address error means it's getting an odd addy somehow, and if it's with Extensions off, then maybe a PRAM or NVRAM reset would cure it...
Have you done a PRAM reset...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238

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