I got a IIfx the other day that was running the Japanese version of 7.1.
It needed its batteries replaced but, after I replaced them it seemed
happy enough. Except I don't read Japanese. 64mb ram, dual floppies,
230mb Apple labeled hd, and a radius 24 bit card.
I decided to wipe and reinstall the OS. I have install disks for 7.0.1
(off the apple site), 7.1.2 (from a quadra), and 6.0.8 (apple site). A
couple of CD's that look to be the 7.1 Japanese stuff and 7.6.(something)
Well it didn't go so well. The hd setup off a 7 disk tools floppy bombed
out pretty much at the very end and took the drive off line. It wouldn't
boot or show up at all until I used the patched hd setup, that people
use for non-apple disks, to initialize it. Then it was back and seems
fine. However everytime I have tried the normal hd setup utility it will
do the same thing. Bomb at the very end and go offline until the patched
version is used. The IIfx is really freaky about termination and I don't
have another hard disk it seems to like at all to try.
Anyway, 6.0.8 install and works perfectly. Every version I have of 7
doesn't. 7.0.1 won't show any files at all other then an empty system
folder, have any control panels, apple menu items, or mount any
floppies. Makes a drive noise and thats it. Seems like its mounted but,
the desktop never updates. In fact that seems what the problem is with
ever version of 7 I have got loaded so far. No matter which floppy drive
I use and they both work fine under 6.
The quadra 7.1.2 system installed fine and I get control panels and
files but, floppies don't mount. I discovered, on accident, they will if
I open and close chooser but, its buggy. Half the time the system
crashes. All this stuff works perfectly under 6.0.8. Lots of people seem
to have no trouble with these under 7 so, something is either up with my
system or the floppies I have.
The IIfx are notoriously flaky but, it seems odd 7 is so flaky on this
one. It would even help to know what 7 version installed and worked
perfectly for other IIfx owners. Any ideas welcome at this point. I'm
about to take it outside and run it over with my car.
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