IIfx that I saved from the dumpster...

Please keep in mind that I am of the PPC generation, and this is my first vintage Mac... My company was getting rid of some old hardware, and I rescued a IIfx. It was in pieces, so I connected the 160 MB HD, and (finally) found a NuBus Video card for it. I hooked everything up, plugged it in, an

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At 09:40 AM 11/12/2002 -0800, you wrote: > >Any ideas? Anyone? > >The confused Reverend Doctor That scale is known as the "chimes of death". Sounds like something is wrong. Try reseating all the memory and the ROM chip. This is one of the models that does always have an external ROM simm on the

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Chimes of Death?!? Such a happy little song for something like that... Thanks for the reseating idea, Scott. It powered up with a "ding" and no chimes of death, but still no video. I am now assuming that the old video card is kaput... Unless, of course, there is something else I'm missing. Oh

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At 10:06 AM 11/12/2002 -0800, you wrote: >Chimes of Death?!? Such a happy little song for something like that... > >Thanks for the reseating idea, Scott. It powered up with a "ding" and >no chimes of death, but still no video. I am now assuming that the old >video card is kaput... Unless, of co

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Well, it has what looks like 8 SIMMS in it, so I would assume that they are 1MB apiece for 8MB of RAM (I could be wrong) I had a co-worker make me the install disks for 7.1.2 (the first OS I ever saw was 8.6 and I wanted to see the old stuff), and I figured that if it was starting properly, it wou

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At 10:06 AM -0800 11/12/2002, Reverend Darkness wrote: >Chimes of Death?!? Such a happy little song for something like that... > >Thanks for the reseating idea, Scott. It powered up with a "ding" and >no chimes of death, but still no video. I am now assuming that the old >video card is kaput...

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Not sure... I did the Command-Control-Power, and nothing happened... There are two batteries in this thing, Maxell Super Lithium, they say. I have no doubt that they are original... --- Clark Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 10:06 AM -0800 11/12/2002, Reverend Darkness wrote: > >Chimes

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Ha, I solved it! There was a jumper missing on the mohterboard. Once I closed it, everything seems to work! Thanks again for all of the help! The Joyful Reverend Darkness --- Reverend Darkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not sure... I did the Command-Control-Power, and nothing happened... >

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At 11:28 AM 11/12/2002 -0800, you wrote: >Ha, I solved it! There was a jumper missing on the mohterboard. Once >I closed it, everything seems to work! > >Thanks again for all of the help! > >The Joyful Reverend Darkness Probably the ROM jumper. Very good :) 7.1(.x) is an excellent system to run

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OK, now that I have 7.1.2 installing...uh... what will work on it? Can anyone point me to a good software repository? --- Scott Holder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 11:28 AM 11/12/2002 -0800, you wrote: > >Ha, I solved it! There was a jumper missing on the mohterboard. > Once > >I closed

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At 11:33 AM 11/12/2002 -0800, you wrote: >OK, now that I have 7.1.2 installing...uh... what will work on it? Can >anyone point me to a good software repository? Gamba has a section on it here: http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/71more.html And I'm working on my own System 7.1-specific site myself

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At 10:06 -0800 on 12/11/02, Reverend Darkness wrote: >no chimes of death, but still no video. I am now assuming that the old >video card is kaput... Unless, of course, there is something else I'm What monitor, and what vid card? -- the pickle FAQ Software Arc

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--- Reverend Darkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ha, I solved it! There was a jumper missing on the > mohterboard. Once > I closed it, everything seems to work! > > Thanks again for all of the help! Did that jumper happen to have W1 or ROM SELECT near it? = "Truth is, after all, a stron

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>From: Robert Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Hey, Rev, would you expand on that? I'm not aware of any jumpers on >the fx mobo. There is a speaker jack near the ROM socket but nothing >else even looks like it needs a jumper. There's connectors for 2 of jumpers, J103 and J106, right next to the rom s