On Dec 15, 2005, at 8:19 AM, Váradi Zsolt Gyula wrote:
Two, the battery is toast. At the first time, it could supply
enough power for 3 seconds (I've only tried it out), but now the
laptop doesn't even power up if the battery is connected. For a
temporary solution (mostly aesthetic), I've put some tape on the
battery's connectors and plugged it back to its place. I've found a
battery reconditioning app somewhere, but I can't do much about it
without the battery :S
What's going on here? What should I do with it?
Get a new battery, or given the cost of a new battery versus what the
thing's worth, live without it.
Three, the file transfer. I've successfully written Mac images to
floppy (I've done a 7.5.5 upgrade), but I can't transfer files to a
Mac formatted floppy. I've tried Gemxplorer (freezes on my XP
computers) and TransMac (throws errors). What do you use?
MacDrive always worked well from me. <http://www.mediafour.com/>
However, it only works with 1.44 MB disks, no PC reads 800K disks.
Also, I've read somewhere that starting from OS 7.x, a Mac<->PC
Transfer program should be included in the system. So should
something for extracting .sit archives. I've dug through the
filesystem, but couldn't find anything similar. Are they really
included in the OS? I mean, would I get these stuff if I
reinstalled OS 7.5 with the images found on the Internet?
For .Sit files you need Stuffit Expander which came with the CD but
not the floppy system images. The transfer program was also an
optional install on the system CD, but is not on the floppies, iirc.
And just one last question. Last Sunday, out of nowhere, for a
moment the laptop didn't boot, but showed me a Sad Mac icon with
the "F3 Illegal instruction" error, but after some reboots, it went
away. I guess it's not normal, so I've ran some checks on the HDD,
but both Disk First Aid and HD SC Setup showed no errors. What else
can go wrong in a Mac?
Memory, motherboard issues, system corruption on disk.
Unfortunately, you have a pretty common chicken/egg problem. Ideally
you need an external CD-rom drive or Zip drive.
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