This one time, at band camp, Joey Morin said: > yeah, it actually belongs to an aunt of mine. old machine from one of > the schools she taught at. it's been dropped, sadly. yes, on the > floor. the case is a bit cracked, but the crt seems fine, and i can > find no cracks on the logic board. looked with a jewler's loop. > haven't pulled the analogue board yet, but i can see the corners are > cracked a bit (no traces broken). could a damaged analogue board > prevent a CC from booting?
miracle of miracles. i'd love to say that i ran my mobo through the econ-cylce on the maytag, but alas, the problem was the hard drive after all. i put the 40MB drive into my linux box, and it is recognized, but times out on the start command. dead drive, but the machine doesn't hang as a result. other Macs that i've seen dead drives in (an SE and an SE/30) likewise gracefully boot from floppy after a SCSI start command time out. my CC did not. strange. is this normal? anyway, i popped a 160MB drive in, and voila! too bad, i was looking forward to telling the story of how i did a 'clean install.' it could be worse. after all, how many Compact Macs can say they've survived a case-cracking fall...? jj -- Compact Macs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/>. Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Compact Macs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/compact.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/compact.macs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
