Recent content by cseals3

"Lonely Mac Syndrome" was a phrase I coined, tongue-in-cheek, to describe this machine's odd behavior (also in initial post). Essentially, as long as I was working in a program, everything was fine, but literally if I left it for several minutes, I would come back to find the cursor locked up...

SUCCESS!! Thanks all (Phreakout, Mac128, LCGuy) for your advice, here's how I finally got things to work. Using a 7.0.1 Disk Tools disk, modified with Ramdisk 3.2.3, I booted the machine with a copy of System on the Ramdisk. I then loaded (from floppy) MicroNet Utility 7.2.7 (which I thought I...

Thanks for the tips on hard drives in the SE, Mac128. I guess that it hadn't occurred to me that they were the first with internal hard drives. Makes sense that it probably requires an Apple drive or at least most likely to work that way. Thanks also for your earlier comment re: using an...

Mac128: Thanks for your reply, I will pursue further. I have eyeballed the caps as carefully as I can and don't see any obvious leaks so I agree with you. I have carefully cleaned and inspected the boards, but suppose that I could have missed something. One time last night I got something like...

Okay, so I haven't given up yet... Got to thinking that the one constant throughout all of my problems was the System 6.0.8 image that I had been using. Different disks, some with Ramdisk, but all the same image. So, tried a system 7.0.1 disk tool disk, and my previously mentioned "Lonely Mac"...

73s: Thanks much for your reply and advice. Memory seems okay, 0F/02 only showed up when I changed drives - some kind of conflict? Tried resetting PRAM, still showed up. Tried cleaning the logic board w/alcohol, swab and toothbrush over the weekend even though I couldn't see any "gunk," but...

Hello all! I'm hoping that one or more SE gurus here can help point out something (simple?) that I've missed. I'm new to the compact Macs, but enjoy tinkering with and using the SE, even if only with floppy now. The design/footprint of the compact Macs are perfect. If only I could get it...