>Today I mistakenly plugged in a parallel port PC Zip disk into my SCSI
>port and tried to boot up. Got no start-up chime, no pointer then
>realized that I hooked up the PC Zip drive instead of the Zip Plus
>cross platform one to my 2400. Dang!
I'm afraid you've probably fried the SCSI controller chip and an
indeterminate amount of the logic board. Or, you may have only fried
part of the power-I/O board - but you fried something. :/ A lit
screen with no chime is a particularly bad sign.
>Have I fried my SCSI port to the point where it wont recognize my hard
>drive? Have I fried my motherboard? Is my G3 upgrade still salvageable
>in case I have to part this sucker out?
The CPU card is the least likely to be damaged, so yes, you can
likely sell the G3 upgrade (though it would only be proper to warn
the buyer and offer a refund if the card turns out to be dead). Or,
you could buy a stock 2400 and try it in there.
>The hard drive has two partitions with two systems. Any body know the
>key combination to force the 2400 to boot to the second system in case
>the primary one is corrupted?
You'd probably be getting a flashing disk or system folder icon if
this were the problem. There is no key combination to do this with
the Apple driver - the only way I know of to boot a different
partition is to mark it using a recent version of the Startup Disk
utility (putting the 9.1 version on an 8.x startup floppy works). You
can select any System Folder on any partition.
>"Shift-Option-Command-Delete" I was a PowerComputing PowerBase owner so
>it is indelibly printed in my brain.
Unfortunately this won't help in this case, since it causes the
default boot device (not partition) to be skipped. It's worth holding
down those keys for luck when you try to boot from the Disk Tools
floppy (but you may need to release them for the boot to proceed, if
indeed it can).
--
Marc Sira | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"If you can't play with words, what good are they?"
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