Re: Help! Help! Help! Help! Please !

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

charmer writes ...
> 
> A friend gave me an Apple GSII, monitor, cpu, aux panel, two disk drives,
> hand help scanner, keyboard, mouse and another box that appears to be a
> external hard drive or ??  Anyhow the long and short of it........I attached
> all the cables to where they should attach, clicked the on switches and it
> fires up sorta....the two disk drives, each flash their little red lights
> once, the the screen lights up showing the version number.   Nothing else
> happens, the keyboard doesn't function, nor the mouse and the external box
> that looks like an external hard drive does not even power up.
 ....

     That may be the problem. An external hard drive may have an AC cord
which needs to be connected and plugged in as well as an ON/OFF switch
somewhere on the case. Also, it may help to power ON the hard drive
10-20 seconds or so before powering ON the computer, monitor, etc..



Rubywand