Re: Can't restart IIci

2002-08-01 Thread Gregg Eshelman
Have you tried it with NOTHING in the box but four 1meg SIMMs in Bank A (preferrably matched and known to be good) and a floppy drive? Get it that way then on another Mac, download the System 7.5 Network Access Disk (NAD) and see if the IIci will boot from that. (Of course you should make

Re: Can't restart IIci

2002-07-31 Thread dan_A
on 7/30/02 2:02 PM, dan_A at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas out there? Thanks for any help. try hooking the monitor to the Supermac card and holding down the spacebar on restart. If that doesn't do it, take the Supermac card out and try zapping pram. -- All the best, R.A. Cantrell

Re: Can't restart IIci

2002-07-31 Thread R.A. Cantrell
on 7/31/02 7:58 AM, dan_A at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dan_A -- I still have not had any success in starting up. Are there any other ideas out there? This IIci is still a good machine and I would really like to get it going again. dan_A battery the right way around? -- All the best,

Re: Can't restart IIci

2002-07-31 Thread dan_A
on 7/31/02 7:58 AM, dan_A at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dan_A -- I still have not had any success in starting up. Are there any other ideas out there? This IIci is still a good machine and I would really like to get it going again. dan_A battery the right way around? -- All the best,

Re: Can't restart IIci

2002-07-31 Thread R.A. Cantrell
on 7/31/02 8:37 AM, dan_A at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Battery is in the right way. The old battery had an extra large plus side button, so it was easy to get the right orientation. Thanks. dan_A Take the Supermac card out till you get the machine to run. How is your ram set up? The IIci

Re: Can't restart IIci

2002-07-31 Thread dan_A
on 7/31/02 8:37 AM, dan_A at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Battery is in the right way. The old battery had an extra large plus side button, so it was easy to get the right orientation. Thanks. dan_A Take the Supermac card out till you get the machine to run. How is your ram set up? The IIci

Re: Can't restart IIci

2002-07-31 Thread R.A. Cantrell
on 7/31/02 9:30 AM, dan_A at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Think theres anything dangerous trying that? Or do you know of a similar piece of software that I could try. I couldn't boot from a sys 7.5 floppy. Give a careful account of the exact happenings when you try to boot. Fan? Lights? any HD

Re: Can't restart IIci

2002-07-31 Thread Donn Haven Lathrop
I still have not had any success in starting up. Are there any other ideas out there? This IIci is still a good machine and I would really like to get it going again. Does it have a cache card? If it does, pull it, and try again. The card in my IIci went south, and it wouldn't boot. --

Re: Can't restart IIci

2002-07-31 Thread dan_A
on 7/31/02 9:30 AM, dan_A at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Think theres anything dangerous trying that? Or do you know of a similar piece of software that I could try. I couldn't boot from a sys 7.5 floppy. Give a careful account of the exact happenings when you try to boot. Fan? Lights? any HD

Re: Can't restart IIci

2002-07-31 Thread dan_A
I still have not had any success in starting up. Are there any other ideas out there? This IIci is still a good machine and I would really like to get it going again. Does it have a cache card? If it does, pull it, and try again. The card in my IIci went south, and it wouldn't boot.

Re: Can't restart IIci

2002-07-31 Thread dan_A
Does it have a cache card? If it does, pull it, and try again. The card in my IIci went south, and it wouldn't boot. -- Okay, I was just about to pull the Supermac card out again...I'll remove the cache card too. Let you know. dan_A -- I removed the video card which I had done before,

Re: Can't restart IIci

2002-07-31 Thread Donn Haven Lathrop
It started up with cache card out. Good. Send the card off to your worst enemy. Is there a way to test cache card? Yup. Put it back in. No start, dead card. Or go buy another known good one. Frame the old one. -- Vintage Macs is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog

Re: Can't restart IIci

2002-07-31 Thread the pickle
At 10:54 -0400 on 31/07/02, dan_A wrote: I get a single chime, The power light has gone on, there is some whirring clicking of the hd trying to start. That stops after about 12 seconds. Then all you can hear is the fan. Also at the hitting of Disconnect the hard disk and try again. -- the

Re: Can't restart IIci

2002-07-31 Thread dan_A
At 10:54 -0400 on 31/07/02, dan_A wrote: I get a single chime, The power light has gone on, there is some whirring clicking of the hd trying to start. That stops after about 12 seconds. Then all you can hear is the fan. Also at the hitting of Disconnect the hard disk and try again. --the

Re: Can't restart IIci

2002-07-31 Thread Gary Adams
If you have system floppy with a bare bones system on it try to start it with the floppy with the HD disconnected. If it starts on the floppy then its the HD if not you may need other repairs such as a motherboard at least they are cheep now they used to be over $1000.00 Gary -- Vintage Macs

Can't restart IIci

2002-07-30 Thread dan_A
-- Can't restart IIci Hi list- My computer was working well. I'm using 7.5.3, I have the original drive that I use for start up and a 2gb external with a duplicate OS. There is a supermac video card, cache card, an ether net card and 32 mb RAM. I had gotten rid of a 17 NEC monitor (stupidly

Re: Can't restart IIci

2002-07-30 Thread the pickle
At 15:02 -0400 on 30/07/02, dan_A wrote: using a key combination which killed something. The keys were shift, option, command, delete...which I use on my S900. Now I can't restart. I tried zapping the PRAM and got no zapping activity. When I start, the monitor lights to white (just a flicker)

Re: Can't restart IIci

2002-07-30 Thread R.A. Cantrell
on 7/30/02 2:02 PM, dan_A at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas out there? Thanks for any help. try hooking the monitor to the Supermac card and holding down the spacebar on restart. If that doesn't do it, take the Supermac card out and try zapping pram. -- All the best, R.A. Cantrell [EMAIL

Re: Can't restart IIci

2002-07-30 Thread dan_A
on 7/30/02 2:02 PM, dan_A at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas out there? Thanks for any help. try hooking the monitor to the Supermac card and holding down the spacebar on restart. If that doesn't do it, take the Supermac card out and try zapping pram. -- All the best, R.A. Cantrell Try