on 12/23/05 3:30 PM, Dylan McDermond wrote:
The OP should probably open the back panel and look to see if there
is a HDD in there at all.
Given the symptoms, I would suggest disconnecting that internal hard
drive and trying again to boot from floppy or CD. When it freezes at
Welcome to Mac it may be attempting to access the broken or scrambled
internal drive. Or the floppy drive may be dirty (a common problem easily
remedied by an ordinary floppy cleaning disk).
I assume the OP knows that it will attempt to boot from any floppy
automatically, but you generally have to hold down the C key or
Cmd-Opt-Shift-Delete to get it to ignore the hard drive and attempt to
boot from the CD.
The 575 uses a SCSI hard drive, typically 250M in the original. I have
plenty of these and the OP can contact me off-list to buy one. The hard
drive and battery are the most likely components to fail on Macs of this
vintage; battery failure does not prevent the 575 from booting.
... i have been told that if it can not find a hard
drive then it wont be able to boot from cd or floppy.
Not correct.
... often the stock CD drive that came with the LC575 was not
fast enough to boot the computer.
I've booted many a 580 and several 575's from CD without ever seeing this
problem.
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