Well, I got my Performa 550 upgraded and re-assembled as a 575 this evening. Works very nicely, although I am having problems here and there. I dragged out my old Mac CD's and ran Techtool Pro 2.1.1 on it to check some things. Several problems were found that I cannot fix. System folder and Volume Structures have some problems which can't be fixed without booting from another disk. I tried downloading a PC utility from MacGeek.org which allows you to create a bootable Mac floppy on a PC. Unfortunately you must use the Command Prompt which I am hopelessly lost with, and was unable to do anything at all with the file to create the floppy. Is there an easier way to create a Mac-bootable floopy with a PC? I have no other way to get files into the Mac at this time, except for writing PC CD's for it maybe.
I will make you a mac boot disk if you wish, the image of which can be made on the pc which will then boot a mac. I have several images which will do this from OS8.5 down. Drop me a line offlist and include the OS version your after.
I've done the 19 disks for 7.5.3 in this way on the off chance someone will need them. It may be worth someone hosting these images or the boot disks, anyone who has followed the rawrite path, as found on some sites, may have struck trouble. This is very off putting to newbie mac owners whos only internet access is a pc or linux box.
Another problem is when I tried to make the TechTool CD the Startup Disk. It accepts the change, but on restart you get a startup chime, smile Mac, the CD is being read from, then you get a black screen and a "dead Mac/sad Mac?" with 0000000F 0000000C beneath it, and the machine is crashed there. You have to hard restart with the main power switch. Tried holding down the C key at startup, same crash results. I had to take a paperclip and eject the CD. It boots from the HD system normally after the CD is ejected. It is like it never remembers the TechTool CD was the Startup disk.
Check the scsi cable, the same error codes have come up as a result of a bad cable on another list.
So basically I am very happy with the upgrade, but rather p/o'd at all the little buggy hangups I am having, and trying to re-Mac-ify my PC'd brain cells and remember all the thousands of things you have to do to set all this stuff up right. My last Mac was a beige G3/300 that I trashed because it became so troublesome and unreliable, and built my own PC, which has been my main unit for the past 2 years. But I have decided to give the beloved Macs a place on the desktop again, I just have to get the bugs out of them and get my brain working right again!
The G3/300 possibly suffered from power starvation due to the under rated power supply, a fairly common problem shared with many mac models.
In the 4 years I've been on this list I have never felt the need for a day for swapping parts and pieces. Most item requests are filled by other listers which is the way it should be within this little community. Hopefully offlist which is where this sort of business belongs.
This will fall on deaf ears but I see no point in making yet more rules that will need to be enforced, a easier way would be to encourage folks to ask for bits which the rest of us may be able to help out with, offlist.
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