What I really want to know before I put too much work into this thing is, what's involved in replacing the battery? And is the hard drive dead, or can something perhaps be done to save it? (I don't have any system disks between 6 and 9 so I can't even see if anything else might be wrong.)

Forgive me for asking these sorts of questions, when the answers are undoubtedly already available from various places--I already learned a bunch in between writing this post--but I figured you all know more about this sort of thing than anyone, and thought I'd come to the source! Thanks.

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I just got a Quadra 605 out of someone's trash (along with a performa 6220CD, but you don't care about that!) and it's in great shape, externally, but... it doesn't run. The first problem is that there's no video; looking around on danamania's site I saw what she says about the battery, and that's indeed the problem. So. When we have video, we see that the computer starts up to the blinking question mark, and indeed the hard drive makes some interesting noises: a sort of chirp, repeated every few seconds.

What I really want to know before I put too much work into this thing is, what's involved in replacing the battery? And is the hard drive dead, or can something perhaps be done to save it? (I don't have any system disks between 6 and 9 so I can't even see if anything else might be wrong.)

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open up the case by lifting/unclipping the tabs in the back and look at the little 1/2 AA (?) battery on the mobo, they're very easy to replace and cost about $11 at radio shack, IIRC.

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...you could have enough of a booting 7.5/7.6 or OS8 system that'll get the quadra up and going... enough to boot it into anything else anyhows. :)

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It lives! It turns out the HD from the 7100 has 7.5.6 on it... or something like that. It's a bit confusing, as the system profiler doesn't agree with 'about this computer'--the latter says it's running 7.6. But perhaps they're similar enough for that not to matter. I'll go see if I can get a new battery this afternoon, and then the thing'll be running for real! Any suggestions of the optimal OS--should I just stick with what's on there now? (I should say, it has 20 megs of RAM.)

http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/

There you can get system images and the internet stuff. I'm not sure if Dana has all of that stuff. Have fun

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{ My baby: Q660av }

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So. When we have video, we see that the computer starts up to the blinking question mark, and indeed the hard drive makes some interesting noises: a sort of chirp, repeated every few seconds.

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If you see Quantum and LPS written on it anywhere...

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And thanks to the rest of you, too... I was so excited the thing was working I didn't say thank you properly! I'll no doubt be back with more questions shortly, on how to get the thing on the internet... either that or I'll be posting from it! So far it's only been used for several hours worth of RoboSport and Solarian II.

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...either that or I'll be posting from it!

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[in other news, I think I might be able to get my hands on a Quadra 660AV in the near future... woohoo!]

As for web browsing, 68k Macs were not really built to browse the web, and they just don't cut it for rendering today's complicated pages. If you really want a Mac to browse with, get at least a PCI PPC box or better.

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Which has come to pass! But man, is this thing slow! With iCab the main page of the forums took about a minute to load. Also, I started out trying to use Netscape 3.01 which I had lying around, and crashed it about five or twelve times before I gave up. iCab has crashed once so far in about five minutes of use. In both cases I get those 'the application has crashed because an error of type 0 (or 3) occurred' messages. But I'm online, which is all that counts... and, I've got a switch now so this machine can be online without me having to disconnect my other *ahem* real computer!

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