Hi everyone,
Looking for some help in recovering from a less-than-brilliant move on my part.
I recently came across a Mac 128k for sale in my area, and quickly scooped it up.
When testing it out for the first time, all seemed normal. Plugged in, turned on, and the disk icon showed up on the screen.
When I attempted to insert a disk into the internal drive(system 2 400k floppy), I found that the disk was physically blocked about halfway in. I assumed that the drive mechanism must be at least partially stuck, so I turned it off, connected a 400k external drive that I already had, and using that I was able to boot into system 2.
Later, I tried booting again (from the external drive) and behavior was flaky - first it gave me a few "0F0064" errors, but after trying again later it booted into system 2 again.
And finally, in an admittedly ill-advised move, I tried putting my "Paint" disk into the internal drive to see if it would go in. Instead of going in, it got stuck in the drive halfway, and when I was removing the disk suddenly the screen went black. xx(
After smacking myself, I tried turning it on again a few times. It still makes the "bong" sound and seems to be booting from the external drive, but the screen is completely dark. Sometimes I see a faint flicker of light when the mac is first turned on, and there are some seemingly random white blobs that flash on for a moment when it is turned off.
If anyone can point me in the right direction on this one, I would be very grateful. I'm not sure if I shorted something, blew a fuse or a cap.. I'll have to get a torx tool and open this machine up, but I'm not quite sure where I should start looking. Any help appreciated, thanks!
Looking for some help in recovering from a less-than-brilliant move on my part.
I recently came across a Mac 128k for sale in my area, and quickly scooped it up.
When testing it out for the first time, all seemed normal. Plugged in, turned on, and the disk icon showed up on the screen.
When I attempted to insert a disk into the internal drive(system 2 400k floppy), I found that the disk was physically blocked about halfway in. I assumed that the drive mechanism must be at least partially stuck, so I turned it off, connected a 400k external drive that I already had, and using that I was able to boot into system 2.
Later, I tried booting again (from the external drive) and behavior was flaky - first it gave me a few "0F0064" errors, but after trying again later it booted into system 2 again.
And finally, in an admittedly ill-advised move, I tried putting my "Paint" disk into the internal drive to see if it would go in. Instead of going in, it got stuck in the drive halfway, and when I was removing the disk suddenly the screen went black. xx(
After smacking myself, I tried turning it on again a few times. It still makes the "bong" sound and seems to be booting from the external drive, but the screen is completely dark. Sometimes I see a faint flicker of light when the mac is first turned on, and there are some seemingly random white blobs that flash on for a moment when it is turned off.
If anyone can point me in the right direction on this one, I would be very grateful. I'm not sure if I shorted something, blew a fuse or a cap.. I'll have to get a torx tool and open this machine up, but I'm not quite sure where I should start looking. Any help appreciated, thanks!
