Re: Quadra 840 AV????

2003-01-13 Thread Mauricio Santana
my two cents: I have worked with several quadras and 1st nubus macs mediting videos, specially 840s and 8100s. I encountered this problem (gray screen with cursor working)several times under two circumstances, the SCSI chain was giving problems or the nubus cards were giving problems. Under the

Re: Quadra 840 AV???

2003-01-15 Thread Mauricio Santana
There is no ROM or cache card on the board. I have tried starting up using only one piece of RAM. I must have tried about eight different pieces, all of which I have reason to believe is good. Nancy, did I read correctly? there is *NO* ROM??? if that is true IT WILL NEVER start up, you gotta get

[q] flashing X at startup screen

2005-12-03 Thread Mauricio Santana
Hello list, I just got my hands on a Quadra 950 without a hard drive, just a floppy, which was bad (it wouldn't take floppies in). The mac has the following problem: The mac displays a floppy with a flashing X. After replacing the floppy drive with an auto - inject one, the mac displays the

Re: [q] flashing X at startup screen

2005-12-03 Thread Mauricio Santana
The floppy is designed for a Quadra 950 (it is the install me first of A/UX 3.0 actually) I double checked this by inserting it in a mac classic (the mac did start up and bombed after asking for an FPU). Now, what I don't understand is that there is no question mark in all of this, the X is

Re: [q] flashing X at startup screen

2005-12-03 Thread Mauricio Santana
Thanks, I still have to try steps 2, 3 and gulp... 5 :-( --M Ken wrote: My Reply follows quote. On 03/12/2005 08:37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The floppy is designed for a Quadra 950 (it is the install me first of A/UX 3.0 actually) I double checked this by inserting it in a mac classic