hello list, My J700 went down Saturday - and that's a major problem forieme right now - I could use some advice. Here's what happened:
I booted up, and instead of the System 7.6 blue and white Mac happy smiley screen and the marching icons, I immediately had a black and white, very low resolution (large image) Mac 'happy face - MacPlus' image, something I haven't seen since using a MacPlus in the eighties. The hard drive started making hesitant searching sounds, as if it was looking for the place to start, and then suddenly it just started making a steady clicking sound as if it was going thru all the tracks one by one. At this point, I powered it down. After a few minutes, I powered back up, and the whole thing repeated exactly. First the old fashioned happy face, then the hesitant searching, and then the constant track by track whine. I have a lot of important data on the drive, and so didn't want to damage it, so I turned it off. I tried it several hours later, and the same thing. I'm puzzled by the appearance of the old happy face thing, as I thought that image was system 6 and earlier, and not anywhere on or in this machine. Additionally, I tried booting from the system CD, and it would not respond to the CD's presence in the CDROM, which has always worked fine. My plan, unless someone has a better idea, is to buy a new 4GB SCSI 50 pin drive (as I was gonna do that anyway, in order to back up my stuff), and try to boot from the system CD with only the new drive in place (as SCSI ID=0), then format the new drive, install 7.6 on it, then refit the old drive as SCSI ID=1, and hopefully salvage my data from the old drive to the new one. Has anyone seen anything like this? Could the existing drive have gone bad? I hope not, as I haven't had a way to back up for a while. Thanks in advance! cal -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
