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victoral
32 MB  Posts: 43 
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on: July 15, 2010, 18:54
Hi There, I'm the guy who started the connect a Macintosh Performa to the internet thread. Well I got it connected now, but I have very weird problem, the problem is I have a flashing question mark disk icon on startup almost immediately after the happy mac icon. Now I know the problem is not related in any way to the network interface card I installed 'cause I was able to reboot several times with the network card installed. The problem came up after the program SimCity 2000 froze and I had to force quit it, but that froze too, so I had to force restart the computer and when I did I got the flashing question mark right after the happy mac icon. Any Ideas on that the problem may be? I've tried everything, I've reset the PRAM, I've removed the RAM cards and reinserted them, I even hit the red reset button on the inside of the Performa, but nothing worked. I can't even boot of the disk utility disk. So please any suggestion will help. PLEASE! |
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dpaanlka
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1024 MB Posts: 1646
Reply #1 on: July 15, 2010, 19:08
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That means your computer can't find a System Folder to boot from. Yours must have gotten corrupted somehow in some way. This is often indicative of a faulty hard drive. You'll have to boot from a Disk Tools floppy and hopefully Disk First Aid program can repair your drive/System Folder so you can boot. Otherwise you'll have to reinstall Mac OS. I would recommend tossing that hard drive and getting a replacement from a reliable source.
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victoral
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32 MB Posts: 43
Reply #2 on: July 15, 2010, 23:19
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Quote from: "dpaanlka" That means your computer can't find a System Folder... I know what it means, but I know the hard drive is not faulty because shortly before this happened I updated the hard drive driver and ran disk utility to repair any damage. By the way I can't boot from the cd for some reason, do you have any ideas on what I could do to correct this, I do the usual I press command - option- shift - del, but that does not work, neither does pressing c.
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wove
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1024 MB Posts: 1363
Reply #3 on: July 16, 2010, 04:00
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"command option p r" will set the PRAM setting back to defaults. The PRAM setting hold the startup volume and resetting this might keep it from trying and failing on the hard drive. "command option shift #" forces the computer to try and start from the scsi device with that number. Apple's internal SCSI CDs are generally number 3. You can disconnect the internal hard drive cable leaving only the CD as bootable. This will not help with your hard drive, but it will tell you if the machine is able to boot. The computer has a floppy drive, so if you have a floppy you can try booting from that. If you have another Mac, you can put the hard drive in that as a secondary drive and perhaps repair it from a different machine. bill
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victoral
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32 MB Posts: 43
Reply #4 on: July 16, 2010, 16:37
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Thanks for the advice bill, I really appreciate it. I'll be posting soon, telling if it help.
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dpaanlka
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1024 MB Posts: 1646
Reply #5 on: July 17, 2010, 00:45
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Internal SCSI on a 630?
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wove
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1024 MB Posts: 1363
Reply #6 on: July 17, 2010, 02:01
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The hard drive on a 630 is an IDE drive, but the CD is SCSI. Of course not all of the 630 models shipped with a CD. From what I recall of the era, the ide controller used in the Macs was pretty crippled and only supported a drive as master, which I believe continued right up through the early beige G3 machines. Beige G3s hard drive and CDs are both ide, however they are both master and run on their own controllers. bill
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