I held the buttons down before I flipped the switch... I'm positive that it's a
Classic, and not a Classic II.
-Elliott Price
Mac Computer Repair - Santa Barbara
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On Jan 4, 2010, at 1:44 PM, D. Finnigan wrote:
>
> On Mon, 4 Jan 2010 11:29:27 -0800, Elliott Price <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> I just tried that... and it booted on the HD and asked if I wanted to
>> rebuild the desktop??
>
> You need to be quicker. When you turn on the Classic, it should start in
> this sequence:
>
> 1.) Diagonal lines on screen -- this is a memory test
> 2.) Ding-uh! The start up chime if memory was OK
> 3.) Checkerboard gray screen
> 4.) Mouse cursor appears
> 5.) Mouse cursors disappears, happy Mac appears
> 6.) Welcome to Macintosh, etc...
>
> You need to hold down Command - Option - X - O sometime between steps 2
> and 4, and can release those keys as soon as step 5 comes up-- the happy
> Mac. You'll know when it has gone OK because the Mac will boot up quite
> quickly and silently.
>
> Once you have booted OK, go to Apple Menu -> Control Panel -> Startup
> Device and select the ROM Disk. Now you can restart the Classic without
> needing to hold down those keys, and the ROM Disk will still appear.
>
>
>> Command = the Apple key, right?
>
> Yes.
>
>> Do all Classics do that?
>
> Yes, but only the Classic released in October 1990 with the 68000 MPU. The
> newer, 68030 Classic II does not have a ROM disk, as far as we know.
>
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