I never used At Ease but you could try disabling it at startup. When you boot, hold down the space bar. Extension Manager (I think that’s the name) should come up and allow you to disable At Ease.
Whether you get it to boot or not you could put the floppy in to see if it gets ejected. That will tell you if it’s problem with the floppy or something about the boot process on the floppy. Clark Martin A designated driver on the information Super Highway > On Dec 7, 2018, at 11:48 AM, Ethan Short <ethannsh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Short version: When I try to boot from a floppy I get the happy mac symbol > but then it spits the disk out and restarts. Anyone know what could cause > this? > I also have an Apple SCSI CD drive that I got with the mac but I'm not > familiar with SCSI. > > Some details: I'm pretty sure the disk I'm using is okay, it's system 7 and > all correct disks I've tried have the same response from the mac. > It boots from the hard disk just fine and doesn't complain about the disks > like it would by asking to format when I put a random floppy disk in. > > History and extra details: I was given both faulty a Quadra 700 and Macintosh > IIsi. The IIsi logic board is destroyed beyond repair by corrosion. The > Quadra 700 is okay but the power supply faulty so I replaced the contents > with a modern small ATX unit and now it works. The Quadra 700 had no hard > drive so I put the 80MB hard drive from the IIsi in to it and and it boots > that with System 7.5 on it. It reports that I have 20MB RAM in the Quadra > 700. the problem with the OS on the hard drive is that its password protected > with At Ease v1. I've cleaned out any dust from the floppy drive. The drive > doesn't stick and it appears to read disks. -- -- ----- 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 vintage-macs@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Vintage Macs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vintage-macs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
