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You need to try and understand why the voltage is dropping. In my opinion from what you're written, the Hard Disk isn't getting sufficient power from the board to continue working and that's why it's spinning down. From the limited information you've given, if the voltage is dropping and there...

I just do not understand peoples irrational fear of PRAM batteries - it's almost become an epidemic! The reason PRAM batteries (and any other type of battery of that type) explode, leak, cause damage etc is because they're OLD! It's not because the batteries within themselves are inherently...

Sorry to go off at a slight tangent, but given you're talking about capacitor specs it's slightly relevant. I'm currently sourcing some replacement capacitors for my Mac II Astec power supply unit and finding it hard to find exact replacements for their physical size. I can find the correct...

Firstly, at some point you're going to have to take some responsibility for sorting these problems out yourself - it's all part of the learning process and something you will have to do - you may as well start now! A quick google search on your problem throws up this link pretty close to the...

Have a play with OS 8 and see how you like it and then archive it and install System 7.5 or 7.6 and see how you like that. On that speed of machine I'd probably be running 7.6, but then I've got a soft spot for System 7!

There may always be the possibility that, that Presto card is simply not compatible with the LCIII+. It's certainly compatible with the LC and Classic, and probably LCII, but I've seen no information any where about that card working successfully in a LCIII+. There are a few facts here that...

Oddly enough I was reading up about one of those the other day! This site is interesting and informative - http://www.vectronicsappleworld.com/appleii/appleiiecard.html

I'm not sure I ever did boot it in verbose mode to be honest. I did run AHT on it, once it started seeing the DVD drive but it passed all those tests okay. I didn't try booting it from a firewire drive for the simple reason that I don't have one, only a USB external drive, but since this...

Which enabler do you have in the System Folder? As I understand it the LC III + needs the 003 v 1.1 System enabler to work with System 7.x. You shouldn't be removing this from the System folder. I'd leave out the RAM Simm for the moment and continue working with the 4Mb of onboard RAM. I would...

What did you do and what did it do? Did you zap the PRAM? Did you run it with minimum extensions? What happened? Did it crash? Did the Presto extension load or have an X through it? Where was the Presto extension loading? At the start or at the end? You can force the extension to load either at...

It does to me, yes, but just because the machine booted with the card installed and didn't crash, doesn't mean there isn't anything wrong with the card itself, you probably won't find that out till you get the Sonnet software to load and work with it. It is a good sign though! Installing and...

The LCIII has 32 bit clean ROMs and therefore doesn't need Mode 32. It was the older 00, 020 and 030 processor machines that didn't have 32 bit clean ROMs that needed Mode 32 to enable 32 bit addressing. Sounds to me like you're getting software errors. I'd start from a clean fresh install of...

According to everymac.com, the specification site I use, there were three imac G4 800Mhz's and two of them could boot int OS 9.0 whilst the third could not - iMac G4/800 (Flat Panel) 800 MHz PowerPC 7445 (G4) Order No: M8535LL/A* Model No: M6498 (EMC 1873) Model ID: PowerMac4,2 This model...

There's a few things here I don't really understand. You've said you're using a 4.3Gb HD, yet partitioned it into two volumes: A/ 2Gb, B/4Mb? Why only 4Mb? Why didn't you create two partitions of 2Gb each and run 7.5.3 on one partition and A/UX on the other? I don't understand why on a 4.3gb...

Okay just to update on this. After a lot of fiddling around moving bits between the laptops trying to figure out what's what, the upshot is that the hard drive in the Powerbook is knackered. Not sure why it wasn't seeing the DVD drive, can only assume a bad connection, because it's now seeing...

I agree with cc_333. Just because the HDT driver worked okay on the flash drive doesn't mean it will be okay on the SCSI drive. Which version of Hard Disk Toolkit are you using? Which System software version? The problems you've had sound a lot like a possible driver conflict or corrupted or...

Okay, we're getting somewhere. Swopped back in the working HD with its cable - and that's booted the machine. Just need to figure out whether it's the cable or the HD now. Cheers! e2A Yet now it won't see the DVD drive! Swopped in the known working one and now it won't boot again. Anyone...

i will try a clean install of the non booting HDD with a working Powerbook, is the connecting cable OK ?? I wish I could! When I put the HD from the non-working Powerbook into the working one, it wouldn't boot it. But I didn't use the cable from the working HD, I'll try that next. Cheers!

Well I've ascertained a couple of things - 1/ The DVD drive in the laptop is working fine. 2/ The hard disk won't boot in my other machine. 3/ The good known working HD won't boot the laptop either. So why won't the laptop boot off the known working DVD drive?

Just tried that - swopped in a known working DVD and known working System Disk - same problem! Flashing question mark in a folder icon. Next I'll swop over the HD's.