Thanks a lot for all the suggestions. I am not near the machine
right now, but I'll try to check them out soon, and then get back.
: If the Mac "eats" floppies, that drive is dirty.
It just "ate" it in the sense that I put it in and cannot eject
it by software, for obvious reasons. I can of course salvage it by
putting in a straightened clip or whatever, but I don't care much
about it at this point. :)
: Move the monitor off the top. reach to the top rear of the computer and
flip
: the two clips and pull the top off. check it over. Cables all connected?
That's neat. I didn't inspect it even externally yet, but I was
under the impression that Macs need some strange alien screwdrivers
to open them...
: Look over the inside carefully. Make sure the Mac has all its parts. Is
: there a pair of RAMsticks in the slots at the rear-right? Is there a VRAM
: (video RAM) stick or 2 to the immediate right of the RAMsticks?
:
: Remove all the "sticks". Dust the motherboard with a small paintbrush, or
: blow it out with canned air.
Will do that. Thanks!
: Leaving the top off, reboot and listen for the chime. See that the fan
spins
: and you hear the chime. Watch for a gray background on the monitor, then a
: floppy disk icon in the center of the screen with a question mark
blinking.
I take it that Mac LC II has an internal speaker, right? (right now
there's no chime at all).
: If after all that your screen is still white, check the screen adjustments
: on the monitor for contrast and brightness. If adjusting it does no good,
: maybe the monitor is bad?
Right now the brightness and contrast controls behave like they
should with no signal. Besides, the Mac sometimes boots with the
screen white, and sometimes black, so I think that there's a high
possibility of monitor being alright.
Do Macs always check the floppy drive when booting? Mine doesn't
seem to do even that right now...
Marcin Wichary
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