Re: Questions on Apple II GS startup

[CantStandSpam@my.email.address (Bill the Junk-Mail Hater)]

You DO have a bootable diskette in that drive, don't you????
If not, that's what you should get!

When you get the 'Check Startup Device' message, just hit
Ctrl-Reset, and you should be at the ] prompt.  That's
the old Applesoft Basic.

If you read other messages in this group, you'll see a lot of
recommendations for Alltech Electronic's Focus Hard-Drive Card.
It's a hard drive on a card that plugs into your GS.  I got mine
a couple months ago.  Well worth it.
http://www.allelec.com/


erikt@esto.cse.tek.com (Erik Teose) wrote:

>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.
>
>Any suggestions on how to tackle this?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Erik Teose
>erik.teose@tek.com

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