thanks for the reply. that's exactly what I ended up doing.
I found a cd of System 7.5 that had the disk images on it.
So I copied them to my good ol Mac Classic and then made 8 install floppies.
The 540c has been working fine ever since.
The only bad part of this whole thing was that I lost all of the extra programs.
It was mostly Office 6 which I personally don't use but the person I bought the 540c for might've liked to had it.
I also lost all of the drivers, etc for the internal modem.
oh well. At least the 540c is alive and working.
On Feb 14, 2004, at 6:04 PM, gf sciacca wrote:
The same symptom hit me a while ago, also messing around with a 540 off
ebay. I was trying to install 7.1 off the original diskettes that came
with my original 520. After the black screen and the "explicative" code, I
could boot off the disk tool diskette but was misteriously unable to
install the system. To cure this, I had to wipe the disk clean and clone
the system from the 520. Everything is fine ever since.
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