This is a Classic, so almost everything is surface mounted. I cleaned the 
board with QD Electronic Cleaner just to see, but that did not help.


On Wednesday, March 2, 2016 at 11:42:16 AM UTC-6, Clark Martin wrote:
>
> Unplug and reseat the connections to the logicboard, especially the RAM. 
> The connections build up corrosion over time, replugging them cleans the 
> contacts. 
>
> Sent from an iPhone, don't ask whose.
>
> On Mar 2, 2016, at 9:00 AM, Stephen Collins <stephen....@gmail.com 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm new to the vintage Mac scene and have a Mac Classic here with an 
> internal Quantum 40MB hard drive and 4MB of memory. When I first got it, 
> everything booted and ran fine. It came with 6.0.7. Over about a week, I 
> noticed apps and even the Finder crashing. It got progressively worse until 
> I started getting the "disk with question mark" image on startup.
>
> So far, I have removed the drive and run SpinRite (from grc.com) on level 
> 2 and level 4. Everything passed 100%, no errors. I have booted from 
> internal ROM by holding CMD-OPT-O-X and sometimes the hard drive appears 
> and other times it does not.
>
> I cleaned the internals and system board using a can of compressed air, 
> but so far no water or chemicals. What should I do next?
>
> Thanks!
>
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