I have a thread about my video question for this system but I felt this question was significantly different enough to warrant a new thread. I recently acquired a performa 6110cd that stock that i've been upgrading the heck out of but it seems to have a few quirks

1) since I received this unit I ALWAYS have to power it on then off then on again to get it to display/boot. The unit has been completely consistent in this. If i power it on the machine powers up but the display never initializes no matter how long I give up. if i power off and immediately power back on it takes a minute but then the screen kicks in and system boots. I have no clue why this is.

2) I recently upgraded the hard drive from a 350mb with system 7.5 to a 1gb hdd with system 8.1 but every time I power off I have to "rebless" the OS. The new hard drive is a clean install it was PC formatted prior to me initializing and installing a clean os 8.1 install. so what happens is I get a smiling mac then my system immediately restarts and then I get a floppy with a "?". I can then boot from the os 8 CD and get into the hdd. i open the system file and "bless" everything and all is good. If i simply restart the system from in the OS it boots back up fine from the hdd but the second I power off and then power it back up the process repeat's and i have to "rebless" the system.

3) I cant seem to upgrade the CD ROM drive. I've tried 2 SONY x12 drives (the original is a x2) and they seem good enough to boot the OS but once i'm in the OS it stops seeing my CD drive. if I put in a game is spins up but nothing happens. Do I have to have a apple branded CD drive?