basalgangster
Well-known member
I have a IIci that has been an old friend for decades. I recapped it a few years back and it has been working great, until now. Now it hangs while booting. It starts from the keyboard power key, chimes nice and loud, then the raster appears and looks good, but no happy mac face, no Welcome to Macintosh, and it never accesses the disk. It will stay like that forever. I never get any death chimes. If I try to reset PRAM with Cmd-option-P-R, it never gets around to noticing that and there is no second chime. I think it is hanging before it looks for that. The board still looks clean. I have removed all the boards and disk drives, and tried various combinations of ram. If I remove all ram, it makes its unhappy noise and the screen stays black, as it should. I am using onboard video and the raster looks good. It seems to me that memory is okay but something is going wrong while the ROM is still testing hardware, but no indication of what it is.
Any advice? What is the next thing I should try?
Any advice? What is the next thing I should try?
