bamdad
Well-known member
hello everyone,
it's been a while. but to my point: i recently received a iici from an seller in my country that was described as 'macintosh for sale working plays music on power up'. i immediately thought that at least it's doing something, and if the chime is the happy mac one, i'm all set.
so i dug around for a cable and some ADB peripherals and indeed, it was asking for a floppy. the SCSI HDD is probably long dead anyway. so i proceeded to disassemble it, do some cleaning before trying some disks. after that i `dd`-d the network install image to a floppy and tried to boot up. it gave me a happy mac and then spat out the floppy. i thought to my self that's weird, must be either some pram problem or a dirty floppy drive. i disassembled the floppy and cleaned and re-lubed that too.
on putting the machine back together, it was stone dead. no light, no screen, no response to either the rear or the keyboard power button.
i thought to myself well that PSU died quickly and without any notice, but put the machine aside and had a night's sleep. but here comes the weird part: today i thought maybe i'll try it again, and it started right up. i thought woohoo it's not dead, maybe some lingering charge went the wrong way or some unpredictable battery thing. but the floppy wasn't ejecting, it only made some weird noises. no problem, i'll take it apart again. then the same thing happened as yesterday. machine is stone dead. i haven't even moved it..
anyone exprerienced something like this before? should i wait another day or so and it will work? should i order a new PSU or is this something completely different altogether? by stone dead i mean even the monitor i plug into it is dead, that's why my primary suspect is the PSU. it's an aztec one and they are rumoured to be unreliable.
anyway, thanks in advance if anyone reads my lengthy story and responds.
cheers,
bamdad
it's been a while. but to my point: i recently received a iici from an seller in my country that was described as 'macintosh for sale working plays music on power up'. i immediately thought that at least it's doing something, and if the chime is the happy mac one, i'm all set.
so i dug around for a cable and some ADB peripherals and indeed, it was asking for a floppy. the SCSI HDD is probably long dead anyway. so i proceeded to disassemble it, do some cleaning before trying some disks. after that i `dd`-d the network install image to a floppy and tried to boot up. it gave me a happy mac and then spat out the floppy. i thought to my self that's weird, must be either some pram problem or a dirty floppy drive. i disassembled the floppy and cleaned and re-lubed that too.
on putting the machine back together, it was stone dead. no light, no screen, no response to either the rear or the keyboard power button.
i thought to myself well that PSU died quickly and without any notice, but put the machine aside and had a night's sleep. but here comes the weird part: today i thought maybe i'll try it again, and it started right up. i thought woohoo it's not dead, maybe some lingering charge went the wrong way or some unpredictable battery thing. but the floppy wasn't ejecting, it only made some weird noises. no problem, i'll take it apart again. then the same thing happened as yesterday. machine is stone dead. i haven't even moved it..
anyone exprerienced something like this before? should i wait another day or so and it will work? should i order a new PSU or is this something completely different altogether? by stone dead i mean even the monitor i plug into it is dead, that's why my primary suspect is the PSU. it's an aztec one and they are rumoured to be unreliable.
anyway, thanks in advance if anyone reads my lengthy story and responds.
cheers,
bamdad