Recent content by itownian

Equill - I suppose I'll be persisting. The repetitive restart trouble has cleared. That seemed to have been related to the PMU and/or faulty power supply brick. The startup chime now brings grey death. The floppy drive does make some clicks and whirs for the first minute or so, but nothing...

I have received my OS 7.1 floppies. The disk tools have failed to boot the machine. The PMU reset procedure as well, have failed to allow the boot from floppy. I have a new battery and power brick. Currently I am mucking about, looking within the hardware. I am at a loss, however, for how...

Okay. So now I have a set of bootable install floppy disks (with disk tools). I just don't know how to boot up from them! My mac career started with CD booting back in 1998. . . How can I boot from these disks?

The screen now faintly has steady lines at the top and bottom each approximately 4 (or6) pixels from the edge. There are also grid-like cones within this short screen border at top and bottom. Seven narrow points and wider ones between. And the screen flickers faintly and only intermittently...

Okee, so this has solved the problem of the repeated restart. But it never gets to the smiling mac. Chime, and then endless blank screen. The hard drive whirs and clicks softly for about a minute and then steady blankness. Perhaps I should now reinstall OS 7.1? Maybe even a new hard drive...

So I just received this 160 as a castoff from a friend's closet. It is my first pre-G3 mac. I am pretty psyched to get it working. The boot chime happens. Repeatedly. With the machine turning itself off and on. Would anyone who's seen this issue before care to comment? Any advice would be...