more surprises. there is no hard drive in the machine. today i turned it on, and the first thing i got met with was the proverbial floppie disk image with the flashing question mark, so it's asking me "where do you want me to look for my directions?"
ever the quick thinker, I thought about my options, and reached for the system CD in the vinyl booklet. put it in the cd rom [ a first! janet loses her computer cd rom cherry!!] and it went in, and voila--it appeared on the desktop and the little sweetie booted up happily. so I spent about 45 minutes wandering around opening and reading things, soaking up information and the general concept. ran into one bomb-- when i opened realaudio memory, but restarting in the dialog box cured that. [ now if i could just cure the 9 month bomb that still has my IIfx stuck, that easily...] and when i had seen all I cared to, since i had never run a mac from the system cd before , i didn;'t know what order you do things, to take the cd out and shut down. alas. I opted to shut down with the cd left in the drawer. eep?!. turned it back on, and it just sat there smiling at me. happy mac, no booting up. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [yes, i like you too, but quit sitting there mocking me, ya little imp!] tried power key, back of machine button, escape key, ...nothing had any effect. oy. so i finally thought it out, and did it the dirty and inelegant way. i pulled the plug. and used a paper clip to push in the emergency eject pinhole of the cd rom. sucessfully pulled the drawer open and recovered the system cd. yes,i feel like a dummy --but a smart dummy. 'flawed genius' rides again. but i figure-- if my friend in hollywood could watch her iMac go down in a power failure yesterday, in the middle of having apps galore open on OS 9, and suffer no harm. then I am probably doing nothing to this creature that it can't handle. since there was no hard drive to be found, the only info it could tell me was that there was 90,112 K total of memory in it. and the system cd is system 7.5.3. so now i know that I need to buy it an IDE hard drive at the fair, with a minimum of 1.2 gigs on it--and knowing me, probably bigger, which will probaby depend on how much I want to spend in return for how much 'giggage'... and a video card--rage 128 or otherwise-- and see whether those RAM chips from that 8500 can go in the slot and give it more memory, still. oh-- and i didnt get to the Pc fair today. it rained like noah's ark and i was up all night scratching on the web for answers, didnt get to bed til 8 am. so it'll have to be tomorrow. more to come. janet http://community.webtv.net/mensabrains/BADCODE -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.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/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
