Re: Booting an LC475.

[John Niven]

> 
> Checked the PRAM battery yet?
> 
> the pickle

Darn it, you are so right! So the pickle posts here as well as the compact list.
Well my experience with Compact Macs fooled me - I didn't check the pram battery
because I expected to be able to boot without it. After my post yesterday I
found a reference to the LC475 that suggested that the video would not start
without a good battery. Last night I checked it with a voltmeter and it was
dead, so I tried the "turn-on, turn-off, turn-on" trick, and it booted just
fine! :-) It seems to have 20Mb of ram, and an FPU. I understand that this must
mean that the CPU has been upgraded from a 68LC040 to a full 68040.

As you know from the compact list, I also scored a M1025 two-page monochrome 21"
monitor! Can I use this with the LC475? Do I need a special video board? Anybody
know where I can get more tech info on this monitor (pinouts at least)?

Cheers,
   John

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Re: Booting an LC475.

[the pickle]

At 16:05 -0700 on 24/06/02, John Niven wrote:

>So I tried to boot it with a OS 7.1 disk tools floppy. It went "bong"
>(rather a
>horrid sound actually) but then nothing happened. I can't hear the floppy
>start,
>and nothing came up on the screen (stayed blank). I unplugged the Lapis video
>board, and plugged the monitor into the standard socket, with the same result.

Checked the PRAM battery yet?

the pickle

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Booting an LC475.

[John Niven]

Hi quadlisters!

I'm new round here, hope I've come to the right place. I've been playing with
compact Macs up till now (SE/30 & Classic II). However, a recent charity shop
trip yielded an LC475 for $5, and I gave way. This was primarily because my 12
year old son went dumpster diving (I've trained him well :-) at his school and
came home with a Multi Scan 14 inch display (M4222). I thought I might be able
to do something with it. When I got the LC475 home I found the hard drive was
gone, but it did have a LapisColor 24 LC video card in it (is that good?).

So I tried to boot it with a OS 7.1 disk tools floppy. It went "bong" (rather a
horrid sound actually) but then nothing happened. I can't hear the floppy start,
and nothing came up on the screen (stayed blank). I unplugged the Lapis video
board, and plugged the monitor into the standard socket, with the same result.

Any suggestions?

Cheers,
   John

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