Lateralus
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I have a Mac IIci that I picked up online well over a year ago. It was filthy, and at the time I didn't have the necessary equipment to test it, so the first thing I did upon receiving it was throughly clean it and put it away.
This past weekend, I decided to give her a go. But I seem to be having a few problems.
Upon powering up, I get video (through a NuBus Radius card) and moving the mouse moves the cursor. But the system doesn't want to boot.
Here are the symptoms;
1) No chime; and I've swapped in a few different internal speakers.
2) The machine does not seem to want to recognize either a System 7.5.5 boot floppy or disk 1 of the 19 disk System 7.5.3 installation set; I've swapped in several different drives.
3) There's no ROM SIMM installed, and I don't have one lying around. Not sure how critical this is to the operation of the machine?
4) The sound chip area of the board is covered in some sort of goo...
I have no hard drive with a IIci-bootable OS installed on it now. And apparently the 80MB drive that came in the IIci is dead because the IIci wouldn't boot from it and my LC III/Drive Setup wont recognize it.
Any advice would be appreciated.
This past weekend, I decided to give her a go. But I seem to be having a few problems.
Upon powering up, I get video (through a NuBus Radius card) and moving the mouse moves the cursor. But the system doesn't want to boot.
Here are the symptoms;
1) No chime; and I've swapped in a few different internal speakers.
2) The machine does not seem to want to recognize either a System 7.5.5 boot floppy or disk 1 of the 19 disk System 7.5.3 installation set; I've swapped in several different drives.
3) There's no ROM SIMM installed, and I don't have one lying around. Not sure how critical this is to the operation of the machine?
4) The sound chip area of the board is covered in some sort of goo...
I have no hard drive with a IIci-bootable OS installed on it now. And apparently the 80MB drive that came in the IIci is dead because the IIci wouldn't boot from it and my LC III/Drive Setup wont recognize it.
Any advice would be appreciated.