I have an LC III in my closet that I can't get to do anything. Here's the story: This LC III had an 80 MB hard drive in it that had System 7.1 installed. I took it out to use in my Mac IIsi. I have never booted the LC III with this hard drive installed in it. I put the old 40 MB hard drive from my IIsi into the LC III. Then I booted the computer with the System 7.1 Disk Tools disk (the one that come with the install disks). The first thing I noticed that seemed wrong was when I turned it on, it made a sound like an LC 520 or a Quadra, instead of the normal LC III sound. Then it gave me a Happy Mac booting from the System 7.1 disk, but before it could say "Welcome to Macintosh," I got an error dialog that said "This System Software (System 7.1) is too old to run on this computer. Upgrade to a newer System version." or something similar. The next step up is 7.5, which would run really slow with this LC III that only has its defualt 4 MB of motherboard-soldered RAM. Does anyone know what's keeping this LC III from accepting 7.1? I suspect it's had some wierd ROM upgrade done to it, but when I look inside, I see a perfectly normal MC68030 and chips.
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