On Jun 22, 9:40 am, Alex Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > I have an LC that is doing the exact same thing. It's not the PRAM > battery, or the logic board, or the HDD. The floppy drive must be > dirty because right before my LC died it stopped reading floppies.
Another possibility, in both cases, is that the electronics on the hard drive (or CD-ROM drive) died in such a way that the SCSI bus is munged. Now the original poster mentioned that he tried removing the hard drive, but I'm not sure if he tried booting from the CDROM drive at that time. Even if he did, the hard drive may have been providing the termination to the SCSI bus, so he would have had a termination issue without the hard drive. One should remove the hard drive, make sure termination is provided, and try booting from the CDROM. And the reverse, disconnect the CDROM drive, make sure termination is properly provided and try booting from the hard drive. Of course, if the floppy is working on the original poster's machine, he should try just unplugging the SCSI cable(s) altogether and see if it will boot from a floppy. Jeff Walther -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
