On 25 Apr 2009, at 09:24:49 PDT, Christian Wacker wrote:
> Well... it doesn't have a good battery right now, if i remove it, will > it boot without me having to have it on for a few minutes before then? > could it also not be booting because i put a 250mb hdd in instead of > the 40mb one that died? ----------- I can't say absolutely, but I believe it will boot without a battery if everything else is OK. The size of hard drive should not make a difference (within reason), but there are other considerations. What type of hard drive? How are the jumpers configured? Is there a useable OS on the drive? The Classic unique in that it contains a boot image in ROM. If you hold down command-option-x-o at startup, it should boot into System 6.03. You might give that a try to isolate other problems. Read more at: <http://lowendmac.com/compact/macintosh-classic.html> Ken http://mysite.verizon.net/res7gt1w/stackomacs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
