Re: Help with IIGS

[Mike Pfaiffer <mike@digitalcivilization.ca>]

Seonho Choi wrote:

> From a very kind teacher in NJ, I was finally given my first IIGS. When I 
> turn it on, the screen goes into 80 column mode and displays welcome 
> texts in duplicate, roughly left 40 columns displays one copy and right 
> 40 columns another copy. From the texts, I was able to find out that this 
> IIGS is ROM 01 version. After that, nothing happens. It does not go to 
> screen saying "Check Startup Device...". When I press "Ctrl-Cmd-Esc" to 
> get to Control Panel screen, nothing happens. Only when I do 
> "Ctrl-Cmd-Power", it beeps and comes back to welcome message screen in 80 
> column mode. Suspecting any card problem, I removed all the cards, 
> including memory expansion card and tried again. Same results. I will try 
> to pull out all the chips, clean them and reseat them, but I wonder it is 
> a problem of damaged ROM. Any advice would be welcome.


	Sounds like you are having trouble booting your computer. You'll need to 
put a bootable floppy (800K) in your disk drive. From there you should 
see the computer access the floppy and, depending on the OS on the 
floppy, you should be presented with either a text prompt or a GUI 
(after inserting a second floppy). I've noticed my machine does not boot 
well from 1.6Mb floppies.


> Also, I was given Applied Engineering 3.5" Disk Drive and the donor told 
> me that is it high density. The drive is a little different from Apple 
> 3.5 Disk Drive (button and lamp is on the lower right corner) and on the 
> front side, "AE HD" is printed. Do I need extra hardware to use this 
> drive to read high density diskettes or the combination of IIGS and this 
> "special(?)" drive will do that?


	Others have talked about this in this particular thread. I have the same 
drive. I like it. Products designed for the Apple and Mac are generally 
more flexible than those for the PC. The PC can't read Apple or 
(normally) Mac floppies. However both Apple and Macs can generally read 
and write to any floppy as long as the proper drivers (FSTs) are installed.

				Later
				Mike






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