Paul Brierley wrote:
WOOHOO! My SE/30 is 32 bit clean at last! Following advice from yesterday, I just went home, popped the IIsi ROM into place, rebooted and sat staring at the vertical lines. After about 45 seconds (can I really have been that impatient?) the screen turned to grey and Smiley Mac appeared! I was then prompted to reinstall System 7.1 because it didn't have the correct software "for this computer model" - previously I'd put a custom install of "System Software for SE/30", but doing an install with "System Software for Any Mac" seemed to keep it happy. After booting, I uninstalled Mode32 and now have full access to 80MB of RAM without any trickery.
The moral of this story? Patience! I can't believe that all this time it was just my impatience that meant I thought the SIMM wasn't working!
Next stop... OS 8!
Paul
However, my continued attempts to replace my ROM SIMM have failed yet again. I'd previously tried doing the switch with System 7.5.3 installed, and some people suggested that may have been the problem. However, as per Gamba's site, having System 7.1 installed results in the same problem - horrible mixture of vertical lines and checkerboard patterns on screen. I get the startup bong, but that's all. No hard disk activity, no change in the onscreen pattern. Pressing the programmers' switch results in sad mac chimes, but still no changes on screen.
Any ideas?
Paul
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It can take a long time to boot. Let it sit fore 5 minuets, if it still doesn't boot you have a problem. Oh, what rom are you trying to use?
johnsn
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