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Ah it seems to depend on how I insert it - the latching seems very "mushy" and sometimes a little poke with a pencil will change the Mac's opinion of whether the disc is readable. Maybe it just needs some careful cleaning and oiling, thanks for the tips on that everyone :)

Ahhh I just reseated everything while changing the memory, left the disc in and it booted off the floppy just fine!

Gosh, 3 Sony Superdrives and none of them boot. 2 of them give me the Happy Mac, but only for one or two motor clicks, then it rejects it again. I'm pretty sure the floppies I've used are fine because I can read, write & reimage them OK on my two PC drives. I might just shell out for a...

Thanks @Fred1212, I do *not* know that the replacement drive works. I just know it sounds normal - no scraping noise, and the read seems to take the same amount of time before the Mac rejects the disc, the eject works. I've tried two floppies, and seen the G3 read it enough (kinda, see above...

(the disk appears correct on the Finder on the G3, but the G3's own drive sounds awful and the OS reports disk errors trying to read it 🥲)

Can anyone suggest a next step here? I've got an SE/30 which boots from hard drive to "Welcome to Macintosh". But the desktop doesn't come up. The prompt disappears (leaving the white box) and the pointer freezes. If I hold shift, sometimes it will confirm that extensions are disabled, and come...

Hello again - what does 3 slow beeps mean on startup? Before I changed the battery I was getting the chimes of death (the 8 note tune). After changing it I get 3 beeps separated by about 2s each, no chime. I've tried it with and without SIMMs in the slots - what would be the next thing to check?

Thank you! Yes it was probably last booted 15 years ago. When you say there are new boards made, do you mean @Bolle's amazing work on Github, or some other source? I was resigned to finding a bargain original and hoping for better luck.

I pulled this out of the attic, powered it up. It beeped three times but no power to the display. Opened it up and the board is very battery-bombed: Like attempting CPR on a supermarket chicken, I've given it a soapy wash and will use a bit of vinegar to get the corrosion off: Might the...