Re: Mac Plus Screens

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From: Jeff Huseth
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 00:00

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Did you zap a chip on the motherboard, namely something to do with the
SCSI controller?  I think I did that on my plus a few years ago.  I was
even using a wrist strap, but I think something shorted anyways.

seeya!

Joe Puente (intense@acadia.net) wrote:
: I need help.

:    I work for an ISP that also puts together computer systems for sale and
: I was asked to upgrade the RAM on a couple of Mac Pluses. Having upgraded
: my own Mac Plus a few days prior, and successfully, I might add, I took on
: the task. Well, I opened up the boxes, swapped out the SIMMS and clipped
: the jumpers so the computers would recognize the larger SIMMS. However,
: when I turned the Machines on with a System 6.0.7 startup floppy, to my
: surprise, the entire screen was blank except for a tiny little square in
: the center large enough for the Disk icon with a question mark or the
: smiling Macintosh icon you see at startup. Unfortunately, after the disks
: spinned for a few seconds, the computers froze and all I saw was the Mac
: icon in its little box in the center of the screen. I'm afraid I might
: have cost my company the sale of two perfectly good computers. I need to
: redeem myself. I'm the Mac guy in the company!

:    Here's a new problem with my Mac Plus. After I upgraded the RAM on my
: Plus to a full 4MB, My computer recignized it fine and didn't have any
: screen problems... however, I can no longer startup off my Zip drive like
: I used to. I can boot off a floppy wioth 6.0.8 and the Iomega driver and
: the Zip disks will mount, but that doesn't help me if I want to boot off
: the Zip using system 7.1. All it does is give me a dead Mac in the middle
: of the screen with 0F001C writen under it. Help! I want to boot off my Zip
: and I don't want to hasle with getting an old hard drive.

:    -Joe

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From: jhuseth@earth.execpc.com (Jeff Huseth)
Subject: Re: Mac Plus Screens
Date: 1997/07/28
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