Q950 problems

[Alan Cottrill]

I just received my q950 and am having a few problems with it. First, it wouldn't boot from the hard drive. It would show the smiley mac then go back to a grey screen then to a disk with an X flashing. It won't boot from known good boot floppy disks. It just spits them out. So I striped it down, no nubus cards and only 4 chunks of known good memory. Still no boot. I took the hard drive from my LC575 and it booted! No keyboard or mouse function though, I've tried two different known good keyboard mouse combos. After it boots 7.5.3 fcrom my LC hard drive it still spits out disks (I've tried two different floppy dirves).

also... new battery.

any advice on how to proceed?

 

[bigD]

I'll bet your key is in the lock position. That disables ADB devices and disallows booting to a floppy. It's designed as a security measure if the Quadra is being used as a server.

 

[Alan Cottrill]

You got it!!! I'm such a tool! That fixed it. You rock!

 

[bigD]

No problem! I'm glad it was an easy fix!

 

[equill]

Since by no means all Q950s arrive with a key, it is good to hear that, once diagnosed, your problem was so quickly overcome.

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