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- From: gk1@acpub.duke.edu (Gavin Kistner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: EMERGENCY - IIfx won't boot!
- Summary: Paper due in 24 hours!
- Message-ID: <8056@news.duke.edu>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 19:28:52 GMT
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- Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.
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- I have a 12 page paper due at 4:00 tomorrow. It's all on my computer, but
- it needs revision. I just went to boot up my computer and got the dreaded
- question mark. Here's the scary part:
-
- Inserting any of 6+ floppies which I KNOW are bootable, causes the computer
- to make a bit of reading-type noise, then spit them out.
-
- System:
- IIfx with 200MB Quauntum Internal.
- 20MB RAM
- Sys 7.0.1 with Tuneup 1.1.1 installed on HD.
- Floppies are sys 6.0.5, 6.0.8, 7.0, 7.0.1, plus installers from 7&701.
-
- Was hooked up to NEC 73, terminated with special IIfx terminator.
- After trying with it hooked up, I unhooked it and tried again.
- I tried again with it unhooked, using the reset switch, after turning it
- off and letting it sit. I tried holding down CTRL-OPTION-P-R (this resets
- the PRAM, right?), and holding down DOCS with a floppy in. (I thought this
- was to skip the internal HD and use an external hooked up, but it's worth a
- try, right?)
-
- It was working last night. I believe I've had SAM turned before and since
- I put any stuff of "questionable origin" on it. And anyway, could a virus
- keep the computer from booting off a floppy?
-
- My best guess is that it's a SCSI problem, but I don't see how it could be.
-
- PLEASE, if anyone has ANY ideas, no matter how inane they might seem,
- please help me out. If I can get it working, I'll tell ya what it was.
-
- Again, HELP!!!! (I figure if sounding pathetic will help, I'll go for it.)
-