carlsson
Veteran Member
A few years ago I received a Mac LC475 for free when cleaning out in the student union. It worked well - I even got onto Internet with it since it has a network card. My dad used it for a short while before getting a 486 PC.
Since then, it has been stored in our basement, but recently I rescued it from there. My dad said the monitor may have toppled over once, but I don't know if it is broken or not.
Sadly the computer doesn't seem to boot anymore. I turn it on, get the "happy" boing-sound, the hard drive begins to spin up but then nothing happens. I can't tell if the monitor is OK, but have tried to remove removable components with no avail. Bah.
I read on some mailing list that it may be the CMOS battery which went bad, but would the computer say "boing" if it is out of battery? It is a neat little machine, so it could be fun to save, but if it doesn't work... any obvious ideas? Someone suggested make a bootable floppy - can it be done from a Linux PC? - but even when inserting a random Mac formatted floppy, it doesn't even attempt to access it.
If nothing else, I believe can reuse the 8 MB 72pinn SIMM with my Amiga, but the SCSI drive, Nubus network card etc I have little use for.
Since then, it has been stored in our basement, but recently I rescued it from there. My dad said the monitor may have toppled over once, but I don't know if it is broken or not.
Sadly the computer doesn't seem to boot anymore. I turn it on, get the "happy" boing-sound, the hard drive begins to spin up but then nothing happens. I can't tell if the monitor is OK, but have tried to remove removable components with no avail. Bah.
I read on some mailing list that it may be the CMOS battery which went bad, but would the computer say "boing" if it is out of battery? It is a neat little machine, so it could be fun to save, but if it doesn't work... any obvious ideas? Someone suggested make a bootable floppy - can it be done from a Linux PC? - but even when inserting a random Mac formatted floppy, it doesn't even attempt to access it.
If nothing else, I believe can reuse the 8 MB 72pinn SIMM with my Amiga, but the SCSI drive, Nubus network card etc I have little use for.