Mike Richardson
Banned
My Performa 400 has been mothballed for about a year, but I finally cleared some space today to set it back up.
The board was recapped before I put it away. It looks like one of the solder joints went cold though, because you have to kind of touch the caps before the sound works.
That's not the main problem though. It seems the networking software has gone crazy.
- If you try to load the Chooser, you receive the error "Can't find Chooser". I am not using an alias.
- If you try to load the Network control panel, it complains that "Network is a Monitors extension. Open Monitors to use Network". WTF?
- Upon boot you now get an error saying the driver for the selected network port could not be loaded.
The machine had an Ethernet card in it which was removed before the machine was put away. Only a few cards fit due to the replacement caps being taller. I had a different card in it before but the one I have now is a Farallon with an empty FPU socket. Farallon cards always worked with Apple's drivers.
All of this was working just fine before I mothballed it - I could use Fetch to connect to FTP sites and download software.
Maybe it just needs a good erase and reinstall? It's got System 7.0.1. Perhaps System 7.1 is in order?
The board was recapped before I put it away. It looks like one of the solder joints went cold though, because you have to kind of touch the caps before the sound works.
That's not the main problem though. It seems the networking software has gone crazy.
- If you try to load the Chooser, you receive the error "Can't find Chooser". I am not using an alias.
- If you try to load the Network control panel, it complains that "Network is a Monitors extension. Open Monitors to use Network". WTF?
- Upon boot you now get an error saying the driver for the selected network port could not be loaded.
The machine had an Ethernet card in it which was removed before the machine was put away. Only a few cards fit due to the replacement caps being taller. I had a different card in it before but the one I have now is a Farallon with an empty FPU socket. Farallon cards always worked with Apple's drivers.
All of this was working just fine before I mothballed it - I could use Fetch to connect to FTP sites and download software.
Maybe it just needs a good erase and reinstall? It's got System 7.0.1. Perhaps System 7.1 is in order?