On 2 Jul 2005, at 15:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
Recently I acquired a 2nd Mac, a PB 160. It's in great physical
shape but
it has it's quirks.
It boots up and I get a blank screen with a working mouse pointer,
after
several minutes it will ask for a floppy. If I insert a OS startup
disk, I'll
get the happy Mac icon, a few musical notes and then nothing. One
time it
booted to what looks like 6.0.x. Also is it suppose to take that
long for the
little Mac to respond? The harddrive does spin up and doesn't
sound sick.
Are there certain keys to press at startup to get different options?
Do you have an external scsi cdrom ? if so hook it up to the pb and
start from that, you should be able to get all the system specs when
booted to a cd so see if it has enough to put a bare system 7 on
there. Depending on how big the hdd and memory is , (also what you
want it for) i would go for claris works. or just word for writing.
It sounds like the hdd is dying so i would say that is the first
thing to check once it is booted.
vicki
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