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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!nih-csl!postman
- From: arm@helix.nih.gov (Andrew Mitz)
- Subject: Is it the motherboard or drive that's bad?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.021930.1996@alw.nih.gov>
- Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Keywords: Old Mac II HDD Hard drive problems
- Sender: arm@helix.nih.gov
- Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
- References: <1992Jun24.131317.26054@fel.tno.nl>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 02:19:30 GMT
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- Computer: Old Mac II with 8 Megs RAM and 40 Mb drive.
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- History:
- Upgraded with SuperDrive, new ROMs and SWIM. After this upgrade
- the HD drive seemed to work, but would not format properly. Recently
- I realized I was unable to boot System 7 from the HDD.
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- Over time some large applications would fail to launch from time
- to time, e.g. Word 5.0 and Omnipage. Changes in heap size, disk
- defragmentation, and rebuilding desktop have not helped.
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- I tried to upgrade the hard drive with a Connor CP-30100 (about 120 Mb) using
- Hard Disk Toolkit to initialize the drive. (Single partition, default
- block size.) HDT had no problem, but there were a
- few errors copying files from a Bernoulli drive. Also, the new
- drive would not boot properly: Sometimes I got the sad face, but
- mostly the first mac screen would appear, then flash repeatedly.
- I booted from a floppy (system 6.0.7) and tried using the new hard disk.
- Some of the files seemed ok, but I could not launch any applications.
- Reloading the system folder from a good (std density) floppy did not
- help. HDT error testing found no problems at all. Putting the old
- drive back solved the boot problems. Launching applications is back to
- where it was before, they launch successfully most of the time.
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- What kind of problem(s) am I facing? Are there multiple problems?
- Should I dump the motherboard and replace it with a fx? Any
- thoughful suggestions would be appreciated.
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- Andrew Mitz | NIH Animal Center
- Biomedical Engineer | Poolesville, MD
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- All opinions expressed are my own.
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