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Update - I ordered a long torx screwdriver set from ebay opened up the mac se and gave it a good clean. I washed the motherboard under the tap and dried it, changed the CMOS battery which was not soldered fortunately, and thoroughly cleaned the floppy drive with ear buds and white spirit. I also...

Thanks for all your help. I will look into buying a long torx screwdriver to open it up and clean the floppy drive. Will look into the emu. What can you connect to and will work with the 25 pin SCSI cable? Can you connect a 1.4 MB SCSI floppy drive and will it boot off it? Also Command Option...

Thanks bigmessowires. I assume I connect an external floppy to the 25 pin SCSI port? Do you know what the 19 pin port is? Do you have the model number of a suitable apple floppy drive? Also is there a command prompt or BIOS I can get into like a PC? Also when I hold Command Option P R to...

I just have the one internal floppy drive. You can see the machine from my Hercule photo. UPDATE: Something interesting happened. I thought I would press the Interrupt button to see the the Mac SE Easter egg which is four photos of the development team. Type G 41D89A. I couldnt enter any text -...

Thanks for the replies. It has one high density floppy drive and an internal drive size unknown. If you try to boot up from the hard disk you just get the flashing question mark. I think on one occasion i heard it try to access the hard disk with four repetative humming sounds without any luck...

The serial number is CK93011PB02. It should have a high density floppy drive installed, is there any way of telling without opening it up? Is there something wrong with the filters of the drive? I have tried a floppy disk cleaner but it made no difference. It does look very dusty inside. Many...

Hello. I recently acquired a Mac SE FDHD and am having difficulty booting up. It switches on fine but just get the flashing question mark. So I created two System 6.0.8 disks as described on this useful website...