It would be a good idea to take the floppy drive out and clean it. A dirty drive can ruin a perfectly good disk, and junk can be moved from the heads of one drive to another drive, where it can ruin other disks.
You'll need a long T-15 Torx screwdriver with a narrow shank. The holes are too small to use a driver with 1/4" removable hex bits. The easiest way to pop the case apart is to remove all the screws except the two in the handle. Take them out halfway. Check for a screw under the battery on the back. Lay the mac face down on a soft towel, place the tip of the Torx driver in one of the handle screws, grip the Mac's handle with your other hand then push down on the screwdriver while pulling up on the handle. You may have to switch from one screw to the other a time or two to get it loose. Once it pops loose, remove those two screws and lift off the case back. When reinstalling self-tapping screws in plastic or metal, there's a simple trick to get the threads back where they originally cut. Put the screw into the hole then the drive in the screw head. Turn the driver counter-clockwise, using a light grip on the shaft, not the handle. When the threads come around to the original cut, you'll feel, see and hear the driver drop a little. Now you can turn the screw in without cutting new threads. Three or four times of cutting new threads can strip out the holes. It can also cause bits of the plastic to fall into the hole where they can be compressed by the screw and raise lumps on the front of the case. --- On Tue, 1/19/10, Scott Holder <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Scott Holder <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: mac 128k error > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2010, 1:59 PM > On 1/19/2010 4:57 PM, jared parrish > wrote: > > okay i brought the mac downstairs to show my roomate i > turned it on > > and it gave me happy mac but brought up bomb pic with > the message a > > system error occurred ID 2 please help > > > > Between the initial error and this, I'd say your boot disk > is bad. If at all possible, you'll need to find a way to > make/get a new system disk. If you have access to any other > vintage Macs, it'd be a lot easier > > Scott -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of 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 leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
