Article View: demon.tech.mac
Article #285Re: Help Needed! Power Mac 6100/66
From: Steve Parker
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 00:00
33 lines
2238 bytes
2238 bytes
If your CD drive is external, then cmd-opt-shift-del causes a mac to try to boot off anythin' BUT the internal HD. If you have Norton Utilities 3.5 of later, then you should have an Emergency Repair FLOPPY Disk which is also bootable. Hope it helps, and Good Luck! Steve Parker steve@parkfish.demon.co.uk DMille9878 wrote: > Please help... > > I have a Power Mac 6100/66. I just had my power supply repaired and was firing > the machine back up and all went well. I also just bought a bigger HD, and had > not yet installed it so I started copying the HD of my machine to my Jazz drive > so they would be backed up...well the machine appeared to be locked up, so I > did a restart. using the keyboard command. Now..when the machine started to > come back up...my monitor was still working, but I never saw anything..not even > the little mac pic that comes up...I have tried rebooting many times, > rebuilding the desktop, zapping the PRAM. The one thing I havent done is start > up off the CD ROM....do you know the keyboard command to do this, as I > forget..I dont know if that will work. Im confused..it was working and after a > restart, no more video.. I dont even hear the HD keep spinning after the > initial spinning. > > Please help..Dave Miller dmille9878@aol.com Thanks -- +--------------------------+ |Stephen R Parker | |steve@parkfish.demon.co.uk| +--------------------------+
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<371FA0F0.E355EDB5@parkfish.demon.co.uk>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mailReferences:
<19990417204015.16996.00002253@ng138.aol.com>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10b5a2,d1ad384c572bd91b X-Google-Attributes: gid10b5a2,public From: Steve Parker <steve@parkfish.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: Help Needed! Power Mac 6100/66 Date: 1999/04/22 Message-ID: <371FA0F0.E355EDB5@parkfish.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 469732560 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-NNTP-Posting-Host: parkfish.demon.co.uk:194.222.93.168 References: <19990417204015.16996.00002253@ng138.aol.com> X-Accept-Language: en-GB,en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-mac-type="54455854"; x-mac-creator="4D4F5353" X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 924819625 nnrp-13:21251 NO-IDENT parkfish.demon.co.uk:194.222.93.168 Organization: Private Citizen MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: demon.tech.mac