Re: SE/30 Locks up at Finder start

[Nolen Scaife]

OK, I tried booting it with the shift key held down, and here's what  
happens.  I get the standard "extensions off" during the "Welcome to  
Macintosh" screen.  However, after a few seconds, a progress bar  
appears at the bottom of that window and fills up, then the window  
disappears.  It's during this time that I would assume it's going to  
start Finder, however it never does.  With extensions OFF, it no longer  
locks up.  The mouse still moves about the screen, but the Finder never  
loads.

I had originally thought that this SE/30 did not have a hard drive  
installed in it when I got it, but upon opening it, I noticed that it  
did.  I replaced it with a known-good drive and replaced the cover.   
Same problem.  I put the drive that was originally in the computer in  
an external SCSI case and it worked just fine.  So I figure I can rule  
out any kind of hard drive problem.  I also have an external SCSI drive  
that boots my Mac Plus, but won't boot my SE/30.  Is this an issue that  
could be a dead PRAM battery?  Is there a problem with my logic board?

On Tuesday, September 16, 2003, at 09:44  AM, J.S. Garrison wrote:

on 9/15/03 6:40 PM, Nolen Scaife at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi everyone!  This is my first post to this list, so I'll give you a
little background.  I'm a long-time Mac user and just recently got my
hands on a Mac Plus (that looks like a 512) and an SE/30.  I'm working
on the SE/30 first, just because it got the luck of the draw ;)
Anyway, the only disks I have for it are System 7.5 install disks.  I
don't have any kind of other disks that are bootable in a classic Mac,
and it's hard for me to make them since my G4 has no floppy :(  When I
put in my Install Disk 1, I get a happy mac followed by the "Welcome  
to
Macintosh."  It's when the screen clears and the menu bar appears like
it's about to start the Finder that the machine just completely locks
up.  No error message, no text on the screen (the menu bar is blank),
no nothing.  The mouse quits moving, there's no disk activity, and
it'll sit like that all day until I hit the power.

I'm wondering what I'm doing wrong.  Is there some issue that I'm not
aware of?  Maybe bad RAM?
Thanks for any help you guys can provide.

Nolen



 Try booting with the shift key held down.  If it STILL won't boot,  
and the
disk is a known good one, then open the SE/30 and remove the SCSI  
cable from
the hard disk, and the power cable from it, and reboot with the floppy.

If ya get a boot then, suspect the hard disk is shot.

Jeff

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