[q] flashing X at startup screen
Hello list, I just got my hands on a Quadra 950 without a hard drive, just a floppy, which was bad (it wouldn't take floppies in). The mac has the following problem: The mac displays a floppy with a flashing X. After replacing the floppy drive with an auto - inject one, the mac displays the same flashing diskette with an X, and a startup floppy *known*¨to work gets ejected. I tried another floppy drive *known* to work and same thing (also auto-inject). If I disconnect the floppy I get the familiar flashing question mark. Any ideas as to what may be happenning? Thanks for the help, Mauricio -- Quadlist is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Quadlist info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:quadlist@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: [q] flashing X at startup screen
The floppy is designed for a Quadra 950 (it is the install me first of A/UX 3.0 actually) I double checked this by inserting it in a mac classic (the mac did start up and bombed after asking for an FPU). Now, what I don't understand is that there is no question mark in all of this, the X is displayed as soon as the machine is turned on, even if there is no floppy in the drive... :-( --M Ken wrote: My Reply follows quote. On 03/12/2005 07:42 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hello list, I just got my hands on a Quadra 950 without a hard drive, just a floppy, which was bad (it wouldn't take floppies in). The mac has the following problem: The mac displays a floppy with a flashing X. After replacing the floppy drive with an auto - inject one, the mac displays the same flashing diskette with an X, and a startup floppy *known*¨to work gets ejected. I tried another floppy drive *known* to work and same thing (also auto-inject). If I disconnect the floppy I get the familiar flashing question mark. Any ideas as to what may be happenning? Thanks for the help, Mauricio The flashing X generally means that the disk was seen but that there was no system on the disk useable on the computer you are using. Is the disk known to work on a Q950 or some other machine? Ken -- Quadlist is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Quadlist info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:quadlist@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: [q] flashing X at startup screen
Thanks, I still have to try steps 2, 3 and gulp... 5 :-( --M Ken wrote: My Reply follows quote. On 03/12/2005 08:37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The floppy is designed for a Quadra 950 (it is the install me first of A/UX 3.0 actually) I double checked this by inserting it in a mac classic (the mac did start up and bombed after asking for an FPU). Now, what I don't understand is that there is no question mark in all of this, the X is displayed as soon as the machine is turned on, even if there is no floppy in the drive... :-( --M -- Hmmm. Well, the book says: During system startup, disk ejects; display shows icon with blinking X 1 Replace disk with known-good system disk. 2 Clear parameter RAM. Hold down Command Option P R during startup but before Welcome To Macintosh appears. 3 Replace floppy drive cable. 4 Replace internal floppy drive. 5 Replace logic board. Retain customer's SIMMs. Ken -- Quadlist is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Quadlist info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:quadlist@mail.maclaunch.com To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/ iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
Re: Quadra 840 AV???
There is no ROM or cache card on the board. I have tried starting up using only one piece of RAM. I must have tried about eight different pieces, all of which I have reason to believe is good. Nancy, did I read correctly? there is *NO* ROM??? if that is true IT WILL NEVER start up, you gotta get a hold of a Q840AV ROM... there is no other way on earth for the quadra to startup properly... Perhars there are some laying around on ebay? hope this helps, Mauricio __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- Quadlist is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Quadlist info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml The FAQ:http://macfaq.org/ -- 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/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
Re: Quadra 840 AV????
my two cents: I have worked with several quadras and 1st nubus macs mediting videos, specially 840s and 8100s. I encountered this problem (gray screen with cursor working)several times under two circumstances, the SCSI chain was giving problems or the nubus cards were giving problems. Under the SCSI problem, we just stripped off all disks and let the mac with only the internal hard drive. It should boot perfectly, the catch here, or the assurance is that you see a cursor, hence the motherboard is perfectly alright, if any internal motherboard component is dead you should see a sad mac, end of story. The problem of Nancy I guess is getting a copy of a bootable CD or a diskette. But if the SCSI chain isn't properly installed (if the hard disk has an invalid ID, like 0 or 8 with bad jumpers, or the SCSI ribbon cable is faulty then, the mac simply won't boot beyond this screen. The other culprit were the nubus cards, case A. a perfectly working nubus video card (RADius) simply changed overnight into this problem, solution, changed the card to another slot (on the same machine) and voilá booting again... I know it´s nowhere near a scientific explanation, but I swear that was the solution, we know the nubus controller wasn't dead, because if that were true, a sad mac would have booted, or the card was wrong, because it functioned properly. So to wrap it up, it sounds to me that the motherboard is perfectly alright, check the SCSI connections, and after you checked them, check them again, and then check them some more, and I would add after all else fails, try this: insert the nubus card in every slot and try restarting it. Regards, and good lck, Nancy MAuricio __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- Quadlist is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html Quadlist info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml The FAQ:http://macfaq.org/ -- 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/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/ Using a Mac? Free email more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
