Re: Questions on Apple II GS startup

[dcross1@nospam.home.com (David Cross)]

In article <6siibe$8p1@esto.cse.tek.com>, erikt@esto.cse.tek.com says...
>
>Hello,
>
>I hope someone here can help me. I acquired an Apple II GS recently, but I
>can't get it to start up properly. It has an "Apple 5.25 Drive" connected.
>When the system starts up, there's a blue startup screen that shows it's
>an Apple II GS, and shows ROM version 3. Then the floppy drive's red lite
>comes on and the drive clunks rapidly for a bit, then it goes silent. The
>system then displays a blue screen with "Check startup device!" on it.
>
>My suspicion is that the floppy drive is bad. Is there any way for me to
>confirm that? I figured out how to get into the config control panel
>(CTRL-APPLE-ESC on the connected "Apple Keyboard II") but everything
>looked OK in there.

Stick a disk in the drive, and see if it boots, maybe?