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Classic boot problem

patatas

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I turned on my Mac classic which was working flawlessly and not I do not get a chime but I get a pointer in the top left corner..no visible issues on the board.

Any ideas?

 

Macdrone

Well-known member
hard disk failure usually also, try booting from the rom, as its the only mac that can natively.

 

68k User

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In the last few days, my recapped and perfectly working SE/30... seems not to recognize its internal Hard Disk - floppy disk icon with question mark blinking appears at start up - and doesn't boot even if HD is spinning and HD light is blinking. 

It can boot with floppy disk; for example with System 7 Disk 1 Installer, but then even the Installer doesn't see internal HD... After some restart, Mac boots normally and everything seems ok, even turning it off for a couple of minutes and restarting it. But if I leave it turned off for more time, i.e. some hours, the problem appears again.

I remove clock battery, reset PRAM and re-install OS, but the problem still persists...

Do you have any ideas? In your opinion, should it be an HD problem or maybe something else?

Thank you

 
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