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LOL, I didn't even notice that until just now. :) My brain automatically replaced unless with unlike. :p

Agreed. The lack of memory protection is a major fault in the classic Mac OS (though memory protection alone obviously doesn't make a great OS... my Windows machine crashes way more than any of my vintage Macs do > :( <).

:lol: Before I discovered Sad Macs the bomb terrorized me as a child. It was scary... :p

The hard drive has been completely erased with a new system install at least once or twice a year when the computer's regularly used,and the bombs have always appeared even after the fresh installs. The only pattern I've noticed is that they appear when I leave the computer running for an hour...

No error code to write down, hehe. Literally all of them look like this one. :lol: Is the battery necessary? Removing the dead one is on my list of things to do, but unless their absence will cause a problem I'm generally not a fan of using batteries since they can be bad for the environment...

This is a pretty old picture from the last time I had the Performa set up. I was going to take some new pictures today, but my camera had to run out of batteries right at that moment. Oh well, tomorrow (or whenever I get around to it) is soon enough! :lol:

Today I finally pulled my Performa 635CD out of my closet and set it up. Part of me was honestly expecting to see a Sad Mac or something else equally fatal. After all, it was in the closet for 1-3 years. Time sometimes isn't kind to technology. However, it started right up and works great! :)...

That sounds like a logical conclusion. Dust, gravity, and things like that can all cause trouble. Vulcan mode, activate! :lol:

Hm, it doesn't sound like that code is very useful. According to Apple's page about Sad Mac codes that's a software error meaning something tried to divide by 0. :lol: How many boot disks have you tried, and do they work in other computers? The disk(s) could be corrupted and/or have an OS...

What code does the Sad Mac give you? Edit: Also, does it only appear when you plug the drive in?

Congrats, and great work! :D

What's the best way to handle one of the caps that die without visual clues? How would one go about figuring out what the problem is?

This video was posted a month ago. It's a guy talking about his SE, and (like him) I haven't ever seen the error code it's displaying. The code is 00000003, 0000FFFF I think the code's related to memory, but beyond that not really sure. I found that video after my wife woke me up just now with...

The "how" part of a recap involves soldering. I haven't tried it yet (will soon), but several people have posted great advice and videos on this thread. :) If you don't want to do it yourself send uniserver a PM, he does recaps for a quite reasonable price. :)

That would be awesome, imagine the speed!

To me it does sound like a problem with the hard drives in the 475 and the Performa. It might be worth swapping the drives you're having problems with with known good ones and trying the install on them, if you have any good ones floating around. If the install goes well on the good drives that...

That's definitely strange! I wonder if any other Macs have done something similar, and if so how many...

It said something about detecting a hardware defect later in the startup process? I'm intrigued now... how did it say it?

I don't know why, but the Classic II has always visually appealed to me in a way that other compacts don't.

Wow, you definitely found a beauty! 8-o Congratulations! :D