Recent content by CuriosTiger

Very true. I'll also try pulling out PCI cards and RAM, although I do believe a video card is required for this thing to POST. But I can pull the other cards.

Thanks for those tips! I tried reseating the CPU card. No luck, but it turns out it's a Sonnet Crescendo G4 card, so that's a nice surprise at least. I may give Deoxit a try. Connectors look pristine, though. Much nicer than in my PowerMac 7300, which did have exactly this issue. (But unlike...

Yep, good thought. I tried giving it a push, but it made no difference. And I suppose after years with no NVRAM battery and no power plugged in, the PMU would be coming up from a default state. Still, it was worth a shot.

I've had a PowerMac 9600 sitting in storage for years. This computer originally came from an Apple authorized reseller in Nelson, BC. Today, I finally decided to try to get it going. I get a power button LED and fans and drives spin up, but no boot chime. Not even a chime of death. Upon...

It really is starting to feel that way based on the info in this thread. I've been trying to build an FW400 MDD, but I may just reassemble my FW800 MDD and try to firmware-"downgrade" it.

What's your location? Sadly, most have probably already been junked.

Not that hard, but eBay may not be the best place. If you're looking for something specific, perhaps try a WTB post in the marketplace forum here?

To my knowledge, HFS+ was never used on floppy disks. Floppies were long gone from Macs by the time Apple dropped classic HFS support, and the advantages HFS+ offers don't make a difference on a storage medium that small.

DM sent. I'm in Norway for a few more weeks, could potentially stop by.

Looking forward to seeing that. I plan to put a second floppy in my IIfx, so I may not have an immediate need for it, but it would be neat to have regardless.

Did you also recap the PSU? That was the cause of a no-boot condition in my Quadra 650. You say you have a working Quadra 700, and the PSUs between that and the IIci are interchangeable. I'm inferring from your post that you did try swapping them. (Other posters have pointed to cap juice...

As far as I know, no such program existed in classic MacOS, except perhaps as part of A/UX. DumbDD is just an app that offers you that same functionality without having to use another computer/OS. Using file images rather than raw partitions is a convenience ZuluSCSI and the like are offering...

On UNIX systems, dd is used for writing raw data to a block device (such as a raw SCSI disk) below the file system layer. The applications are numerous. For example, it's a fast way to clone one disk to another (as long as the destination is at least as large as the source.) It's a decent way to...

Excellent work. I have 20MB in my own IIfx, and have decided that will have to do. My second IIfx has 8MB in it.

It does not. The IIcx does not have onboard video, so there's no onboard video performance to decrease. Also, if memory serves (pun intended), the logic for the IIcx memory banks are the same as on the SE/30 and the IIx, and the inverse of the IIci.