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So I had my logic board recapped by a member here on the forum and he did a fantastic job! However, I'm still experiencing the following problem: When I turn the computer on, I get a startup bong, but absolutely no picture. I hear the disk spinning up but there's no display. Prior to this...

It is Macintosh Classic II with an 80 MB HD, 4 MB of RAM and with the Connectix RAM Doubler installed. The hard drive functions just fine and has a fresh install of OS 7.5 on a diet. No other issues whatsoever, which is what leads me to believe it is a drive failure.

Haha well thanks. Yes I assumed WD-40 is not the way to go. The cable is seated just fine and it seems as if everything else is working no problemo. I use a Roland JV-1010 as my MIDI instrument coming out of the Mac, its a great little unit.

I guess I'm used to forums that move a bit faster, I do apologize, I'm just very eager to get this setup working. I'm using it for live performances with my band and I'm by no means and electronics or computer whiz, just a musician who's interest is sparked by things operating at the brink of...

So if everything else on my machine is functioning as it should be, can I conclude that the floppy drive has indeed pooped the bed?

Thanks for the advice. No disk works in it at all, the drive doesn't even try to read it when I pop one in. I'm thinking that it is either fried or there is a weird problem relating to the logic board needing a recapping.

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After installing system 7.5 my machine actually works a lot better, I haven't been getting any weird startup issues or anything else of the sort but as of today my disk drive doesn't recognize disks. It ejects them upon startup but won't read them when the computer is on. Is this a logic board...

I finally got it working! The cable that I had purchased was not a cross over cable and the Mac requires one to hook up to the Roland so a bit of splitting and soldering was in order and voila! It works! Now I just need to do some recapping and I'm in business! Thanks so much to everyone on this...

I installed that and opened a .MID file that I had made on another computer and I didn't get any signal coming out of the machine into the MIDI unit I have. I don't understand what I'm not doing; I have the hardware setup to accept a Mac signal through the serial cable, I have the modem selected...

Update: Installed a lean version of 7.5.3, now to replace those leaky gross caps on the logic board. Bleh.

Ok I finally used what little knowledge of UNIX I have to figure out what I was doing wrong and make a proper boot disk. Thanks to JRL for helping me get my computer to boot up again using the hard disk. Now I have to start working on getting a lean mean version of 7.5 on this sucker. :D

I mean I did exactly what the procedure in the link I posted above told me to do. It seemed to work fine, no error messages were displayed. What am I doing wrong?

So I had to just turn the machine off before the install finished and now when I boot up I get the old "The 'System' file on this startup disk may be damaged. The Installer can be used to repair this disk." I tried to create a Network Access bootable disk using this procedure...

....it is asking me for the disk "Programs" which did not come with the OS I downloaded from Macgarden. What the heck is it talking about? Before I installed the new OS I had a disk called "Programs" that I had some assorted nonsense on but I've been using that disk to install OS so God knows...

I found a place that has MIDI Manager but for some reason the StuffIt I have on my MacBook Pro doesn't want to open it. It's here: http://www.harmony-central.com/Software/Mac/midi-manager-202.html

I saw that but I am using System 7.0.1, should I use that bootable 7.5.3 disk that someone posted on one of the other threads to install this software?

I am using my Mac Classic II for MIDI performance. Aside from having a hard time finding appropriate software, I am a bit confused as to how it all works. Right now I'm using some cheapo share ware program called "MIDI Companion" that I found on Harmony Central whose purpose is to essentially...

Thanks for the tips! I contacted trag so hopefully he gets back to me soon! I searched around but couldn't find a tutorial on how to do this efficiently. Could you possibly point me in the right direction?

Thanks I did do that and cleaned up the smudges and it seems to be working better albeit still intermittently. Now sometimes when I boot it I get no sound and the disk drive doesn't work correctly so I'm positive that it is the logic board. What are the values on the capacitors? Those are some...