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Funnily enough since I last wrote I tried a different ROM SIMM as I'd forgotten I had two of them, but no difference. Also tried reseating the RAM but again no difference. Will try looking for chips getting warm though.

Thanks, I did originally take it out and completely re-seat it, but I've now also tried doing exactly what you said and pressing down on it while booting but no difference unfortunately. For what it's worth that SIMM feels very solidly held in place anyway by the two retaining clips on either...

OK so I disconnected the HDD and tried connecting each floppy drive in turn (don't want to connect both at once due to the damaged mb connector previously mentioned) and putting a formatted Mac floppy (not System itself) in each one. It's hard to say if it's reading them properly but there's a...

Yeah you could be right about that, it sounded like it was doing something but I agree that it doesn't last for very long. But I did also try it with just the floppy drive connected (but no floppy in it) on the basis that that might be enough to get the drive-with-a-flashing-question-mark icon...

Hi, My first post here :) Have just pulled out of storage my IIfx that was working fine when it went into storage a few years ago. The motherboard is very clean on it, no battery leaks or exploding caps (unlike the mb it replaced which *did* have a cap explode and was a horrible mess :( ) I...