My MacLab has inherited a 7100/100 with 2 external SCSI drives and an Apple 20" monitor.
When I tried it out, the monitor power light stayed green for a few seconds and then a yellow light came on and the screen stayed blank. I kept fooling around with it, but it was hard because I had no way of knowing for sure what the system was doing because I didn't have a monitor. The good news was that eventually the monitor came on and I saw that the system had booted to OS 9.1. I played with it briefly and then powered everything off for the day. Today I had a few minutes to experiment so I pushed the cart into place and turned everything on. Once again the yellow light came on and the screen stayed black. I reached around the back of the system to check the connection and realized to my horror that I had unplugged the SCSI cable. Now, with everything turned on, the system locks up at a blue screen and a frozen pointer in the upper left of the screen while it's starting up. Turning off the external drives lets it boot, but it seems to take a long time. Once in the finder, turning on an external locks up the system immediately. I haven't had a chance to test the drives on another system so I don't which part(s) might be damaged. Obviously, this is not good, but just how bad is this and is there anything I can do? thanks, jim -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
