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oldmacman
Full Member
USA
713 Posts |
 Posted - 28 Nov 2002 : 07:47:49
My 6100 is on CRACK!After having the mobo out of my 6100, I put it back in the case and fired it up. It has no PRAM battery, so I had to do the push-the-power-button-fast-twice trick. It came on as usual, booted off the internal SCSI HD with 7.6.1, loaded all the INITs, and... It loaded about six pixels worth of white space at the top of the screen where the menubar would be, loaded the gray background, brought up the arrow cursor, and ... NOTHING! Force quit brought up the normal dialog box, but with no text in it. Neither of the buttons did anything but make the hard drive click. I booted the machine from the OS 8 PPC boot floppy, and everything worked fine! The CD and the HD were detected and mounted. I low-leveled the drive, thinking something might be wrong with it. I then installed 7.6 from a CD. It installed fine, but when I booted from the drive, the same thing happened. No Finder appeared. Next, I tried booting from the OS 8 CD. The INITs loaded, the menubar came up, I got a cursor arrow, and nothing else happened. What's wrong with the machine? It was working fine before! Official 68kMLA Music and NeXT Expert
Macs Liberated: SE (2), LC, IIsi, PB 145b, Quadra 700 (2), LC 575, 6100 (2), PB 5300, PowerMac 5400/200, Performa 6400/180
PCs liberated from Windoze: 3 |
GORDOOM
Junior Member
Canada
208 Posts |
Posted - 28 Nov 2002 : 20:20:15
I had the exact same thing happen on my 6100. Reinitialising the HD solved the problem for me.Is the driver for the disk up-to-date for the OS version you're installing? I think that was the initial problem with mine... GORDOOM
Commander, Academic Operations Reserve
(University of Toronto, St. George Campus)
total Macs liberated: way the hell too many "...the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do." |
oldmacman
Full Member
USA
713 Posts |
Posted - 28 Nov 2002 : 20:39:28
I low-leveled the drive with the Drive Setup Lite application on the OS 8 (not 8.1) disk tools floppy and reinstalled 7.6. Now, when I boot the machine from the HD, it loads all the extensions and then gives me two blank windows and bombs. None of the windows have any text, only buttons.My 6100 could desperately use a trip to rehab! Or a good bath! On a happier note, my cousins brought the monitor and keyboard that go with the 6100 when they came for Thanksgiving. Official 68kMLA Music and NeXT Expert
Macs Liberated: SE (2), LC, IIsi, PB 145b, Quadra 700 (2), LC 575, 6100 (2), PB 5300, PowerMac 5400/200, Performa 6400/180
PCs liberated from Windoze: 3 |
boredomconquersall
Full Member
Canada
613 Posts |
Posted - 28 Nov 2002 : 23:14:25
make itadmitithasa problem,and then snd it off to the AA, because admitting you have a problem is the first step, solving it is the second. thatsounds like you have some BAAAAD inits... maybe ur 6100laced them with some crack while you weren't looking... maybeI SOLD thecrack to the 6100?! MAYBE!!?
thNxnx
"don't make me get my SPOON!!"
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oldmacman
Full Member
USA
713 Posts |
Posted - 29 Nov 2002 : 14:27:27
I still don't know what the problem could be. I tried low-leveling the drive with the 7.6.1 Disk Tools floppy and then installing 7.6.1. It bombed just as the first INIT was loading. Then, I tried copying the system folder from the Disk Tools disk onto the hard drive. It booted perfectly! I'm completely bamboozled.Oh well, I'm off to try the 8.1 Disk Tools floppy. I hope it works. Official 68kMLA Music and NeXT Expert
Macs Liberated: SE (2), LC, IIsi, PB 145b, Quadra 700 (2), LC 575, 6100 (2), PB 5300, PowerMac 5400/200, Performa 6400/180
PCs liberated from Windoze: 3 |
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My 6100 is on CRACK!
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