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Joe Puente 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

 

either you shocked the machine, the memory you put in is bad, or you
knocked the SCSI connections loose...