sp00ky
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Recently, a Macintosh Classic managed to follow me home and I've become infatuated with the idea of using it. It seems to have a lot of problems, though.... When I first got it, trying to boot it resulted in a lot of x_x sad mac faces with a broad variety of different number codes, and the display was marred by horizontal lines.
I thought there might be something wrong with the hard drive, so I disconnected it. This was fairly easy, because the previous owner had removed the moonscrew from it and never put them back in (joy!). When I examined its little motherboard, I discovered that one of its chips was completely covered in gooey white paste that a gentle touch with a tissue revealed to be very moist.
Once the hard drive was disconnected, I found myself seeing fewer dead macs and most of the time it would start polling for a startup disk like it's supposed to. I tried to boot it with cmd + option + x + o, but this only resulted in more dead macs... then I tried making a floppy for it with my Macintosh LC 630 and found myself making some progress! Most of the time, it will boot from the floppy disk I made, reach the desktop and function as it should, but the speaker does not appear to work (no startup chime), there are horizontal lines across the screen (which become less visible after about 5 minutes) and the display will ocasionally flicker with a bizarre 'pinch' effect. It works most of the time now, but even with the hard drive disconnected, it will still give me dead macs sometimes... Does this have something to do with the gooey chip?
So... What's wrong with my Macintosh Classic and is it worth saving? Here's a summary of my big questions about it:
- What kind of SCSI hard drive do I have to replace the old one with? I read that only Apple hard drives will work.
- Why does CMD + X + 0 not work?
- Why are there horizontal lines across the screen?
- Why is there no startup chime?
- What is wrong with the gooey chip and is it responsible for my sad mac problems?
- Can the display be replaced? Can it be replaced with one from an older Macintosh?
I thought there might be something wrong with the hard drive, so I disconnected it. This was fairly easy, because the previous owner had removed the moonscrew from it and never put them back in (joy!). When I examined its little motherboard, I discovered that one of its chips was completely covered in gooey white paste that a gentle touch with a tissue revealed to be very moist.
Once the hard drive was disconnected, I found myself seeing fewer dead macs and most of the time it would start polling for a startup disk like it's supposed to. I tried to boot it with cmd + option + x + o, but this only resulted in more dead macs... then I tried making a floppy for it with my Macintosh LC 630 and found myself making some progress! Most of the time, it will boot from the floppy disk I made, reach the desktop and function as it should, but the speaker does not appear to work (no startup chime), there are horizontal lines across the screen (which become less visible after about 5 minutes) and the display will ocasionally flicker with a bizarre 'pinch' effect. It works most of the time now, but even with the hard drive disconnected, it will still give me dead macs sometimes... Does this have something to do with the gooey chip?
So... What's wrong with my Macintosh Classic and is it worth saving? Here's a summary of my big questions about it:
- What kind of SCSI hard drive do I have to replace the old one with? I read that only Apple hard drives will work.
- Why does CMD + X + 0 not work?
- Why are there horizontal lines across the screen?
- Why is there no startup chime?
- What is wrong with the gooey chip and is it responsible for my sad mac problems?
- Can the display be replaced? Can it be replaced with one from an older Macintosh?
