I'm just trying to distinguish between a working computer with a boot
problem and a malfunctioning computer. Did the video artifacts occur
before or after loading the OS from the floppy?

On Jul 16, 3:55 pm, Alan Chen <[email protected]> wrote:
> I didn't know there was a difference between boot and start-up.  The
> Centris is back to the same symptoms I described in the first post.  I
> get the bong, then the happy mac, but then the disk spits out and the
> Centris restarts.
>
> And no, I didn't replace the PRAM battery.  But when I was successful
> booting up, it was with the old battery.
>
> Another thing I noticed was that during the successful boot-ups, the
> video had a lot of artifacts on the left-hand side.  I've tested the
> monitor with another computer, and it worked fine, so I know it's not
> the monitor.  Any ideas?

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