Re: //GS suddenly won't boot

[buggie@mirac.unm.edu (stephen e buggie)]

He's in New Mexico ---- so am I!   I'd be happy to look at it.

I'm in Gallup NM.   If in Albuquerque, he could check with Jim Pittman at
UNM-CIRT computer center.

Steve Buggie		buggie@unm.edu




mehenn (mehenn@worldnet.att.net) wrote:
: I gave an old //GS Woz LE to a friend of mine who's never owned a computer.
: Heck, it was 11 years old but still worked fine and ran everything he
: needed.  After he received it, he got it up and running and all systems were
: go.

: It has an Applied Ingenuity 40 Meg hard drive installed in slot 7.  Slot 1,
: 4, 5, and 6 are empty.  Slot 2 has an AE IBM card and slot 3 has an AE
: accelerator.  The RAM slot has a full AE 1.5 Meg card, I think; it may be
: bigger than that, nut it has lots of RAM.

: He called me this afternoon in a panic because he can't get the machine to
: boot.  I talked him through the control panel and we verified that slot 7
: was set to Your Card.  We tried booting with Slots set to 7, 5 and Scan.  He
: removed, cleaned and re-seated the RAM card and hard drive controller card
: and we tried the whole thing all over again.  We put a Hyperstudio disk in
: the 3.5" drive (because I though it might have an op system on it) during
: the second series of boot attempts.

: The only reactioin to all of this is the signature BONK and then an "Unable
: to load PRODOS" screen.  He stated that the drive light on the 3.5"
: flickered but didn't stay on for any appreciable time.

: The last time this happened to me was in 1990 when the battery or VGC chip
: was causing problems; I don't remember exactly.  I had to have the
: motherboard replaced then and I think he's got a ROM 03, now.  It's at least
: an 01.

: Trouble is, he's in New Mexico and I'm stuck in Hawaii.  I have to do this
: all over the phone and he is not very computer literate.  Any ideas?

: mehenn@worldnet.att.net.