Hi, I'm new to this group. I've spent countless hours trying to revive my old Centris 610, and am at my wit's end. Hoping I can get some help here.
I've searched through old threads and found a thread that described the problem I'm having, but there was no resolution and that thread is over a year old. So I hope it's okay to create a new thread. If not, my apologies. Here goes. My high school and college companion, my trusty Centris 610, has wasted away. He served me well for four years of school, and saw the first days of dialup internet access, doing things like email through Pine. He even did double-duty as a DOS gaming PC with the daughter-card upgrade. But he was retired in the late 90s and is too cranky to wake up now. When I saw the flashing question mark, I recognized it as a boot volume problem. The two hard drives could be dead, I thought. So I tried to boot from a copy of Disk Tools on a diskette (no CD-ROM drive). I've tried System 7.0, 7.1, 7.5, and even the proper enabler, and the best I could achieve is: I get a happy Mac for a split-second, then the diskette gets spat out, and back to the question mark. I've also tried fiddling with the hardware. Removing all, then putting back one hard drive/RAM/VRAM/daughter-card at a time, and none of that got the Centris to boot. Any suggestions? I'm as tired and confuddled as the Sad Mac with the x_x eyes. -- ----- 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/
