Looks a bit like the picture on my Classic II which I believe has ram issues (video ram or main memory).I found this SE/30 laying around at work. Turned it on, and got some sounds, and then this is what shoed on the screen
The instructions say to creake the disks using Disk Copy, which from the link on the site appears to be a MAC program.
This is my First mac, so this is all new to me.
I tried sticking a floppy in the drive just to see if it worked... i.e. spins. Well it sounded like it spun up then it stopped and sounded like the disk door slammed shut. not I get nothing out of the floppy. I am going to assume this means the floppy is shot.
The instructions say to creake the disks using Disk Copy, which from the link on the site appears to be a MAC program.
This is my First mac, so this is all new to me.
I tried sticking a floppy in the drive just to see if it worked... i.e. spins. Well it sounded like it spun up then it stopped and sounded like the disk door slammed shut. not I get nothing out of the floppy. I am going to assume this means the floppy is shot.
There is a hard drive inside. I don't hear is spin up, but then again could it just be too quite for me to hear? (I am thinking not)Is there a hard drive inside it?
If so, do you hear it spin up?
If it's not spinning up, you can give it a whack to unstick it long enough to boot and copy the drive off to another small SCSI hard drive. Sticking heads were a VERY common problem on those old drives.
While I have it opened up I will tap on the hard drive a bit and see what happens.
Well About 6 good "taps" with the butt of a screwdriver and guess what the drive started to spin! turned it off and back on and it booted right up. Now to get a keyboard a mouse... looks like e bay has a few of them nicely priced.If it's not spinning, don't be shy about beating the crap out of it. Seriously. Back in the day, I'd take an SE or SE/30 with a stuck hard drive and violently rock the whole computer back and forth, smacking each side of the bottom of the case on the bench a few times to unstick the drive.
If the case was open, I'd hook up a longer SCSI cable and power cables then do a quick spinning jerk to the drive to unstick it.
Either way works and you don't have to be gentle at all. It'll even work for awhile before sticking again, but it will always stick again. Just copy the data off and put a different drive in.
RJ
I plan to get one of the old-style all-in-one Macs like the SE/30, and I want to run StarCraft on it. I believe it requires 7.5 or 7.6 as the OS, anybody recall? Is the SE/30 powerful enough to do that?
Well About 6 good "taps" with the butt of a screwdriver and guess what the drive started to spin! turned it off and back on and it booted right up. Now to get a keyboard a mouse... looks like e bay has a few of them nicely priced.
I am still going to take it apart as the floppy I think is hosed, and It seems like I can get a working one relatively cheap. Any way to get these on the internet?