On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 01:58:48AM +0100, Riccardo wrote:
> Under Mac 7.1 it gets definitively recognized as Mac II. I definitively
> have a SWIM, since one of my two floppies reads HD disks, I checked
>
> Penguin says my gestalt is 6, Mac II
>
> A clue for the MacII is the 68020 CPU + FPU + MMU, AFAIK the only apple
> machine with these specs.
That definitely answers my question. Thank you.
> PS: I didn't use this mac since many months, it first stasrted up, but
> then refusedfurther boots with the sad mac sound and no video output.
> REmoving components trying to isolate the problem didn't help. When I
> put al back together with no luck, a last attempt made it boot. Any
> ideas? I see no visible damage on the motherboard, the batteries still
> have some juice left...
It's hard to say what might be the problem. The symptoms of a bad
battery are quite a bit different. This almost sounds more like a
bad video card to me. Do you have a different one you can try? A
lot of older macs refuse to boot without video.
Brad Boyer
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