I have a Performa 550 that I cannot get to boot. I believe the hard disk is probably dead. The hard disk was partitioned with Drive 7 and some of the partitions stopped being mountable before the machine failed. With this kind of warning, all vital data on the machine was backed up, so data recovery is not a priority. We tried to boot from a zip disk, but for reasons unknown we couldn't - eventually the zip drive failed to work at all as well. I can't find any bootable Apple CD's - although I should have some somewhere. I've tried a couple of superbooter flopys as well as Apple's Network Access Disk without success. Here's the symptoms. Gray screen at startup (mouse moves pointer), Happy Mac! (for about 3 seconds), flash - back to gray screen, flash - back to happy mac, finally the blinking question mark appears on a disk icon. When I attach a zip drive (Universal System 7.5.5 folder built and tested on a Performa 6300), I can see that the disk is accessed in the Mac's scan of SCSI devices. Non bootable CD's are ejected, as are floopies (after a brief happy mac). I tried to boot from a differnet device with the hard disk removed, but that didn't work either. I did get kind of static noise from the speakers after leaving the machine on for several minutes (don't know what kind of clue that may be. No signs of obvious damage on the inside (I've removed and reinstalled each of the drives and the motherboard). I'm about ready to give up, but hoped there might be something more I could try.
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