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Mac Color Classic suddenly won’t finish boot anymore

amedeo_68k

Well-known member
Hi,
Starting today my color classic stopped working properly. It always catches error 11 just before loading Finder. I tried several boot disks. Same issue. Error 11 seems to be: SDM could not be initialized.
What is SDM ??

Do you have any idea?
Thank you
 

amedeo_68k

Well-known member
I also noticed that the internal HD is not recognized anymore, question mark, may be SDM is Scsi Device Manager ??
However it boots ( with error 11 ) from external SCSI ( scsi2sd )
 

bibilit

Well-known member
SDM
11 dsMiscErr sdmInitErr
Miscellaneous hardware exception error

Have you tried booting with extensions OFF ?
 

amedeo_68k

Well-known member
Hi guys,
I pulled the logic board and clean up again with isopropyl and brush, now it works well again, however I’m still wondering on what the issue could be, the board apparently looks very clean. I have no idea
 

3lectr1cPPC

Well-known member
It could have been a bad contact for the logic board edge connector - simply pulling it out and putting it back in fixed it. Or simply a speck of cap crap somewhere that your first cleaning missed.
 
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