Re: help diagnosing an Apple IIe, please.

[schmidtd <schmidtd@my-deja.com>]

On Feb 26, 11:51 am, adric22 <adri...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I put it back in and now the
> drive rattles for a moment on bootup, the light stays stuck on red,
> and the computer stays stuck at the Apple II logo.

Success!  It's trying to boot a (non-existent) disk.  Reset (or, more
likely, Control-reset) will break out of the boot sequence which will
otherwise go on indefinitely.  If you still can't get reset to work,
then yank the Disk II card out and turn the machine on - you will be
faced with the Applesoft prompt.

If you have a bootable disk and it's not booting, then perhaps the
floppy itself is no longer viable, or the drive's head may be dirty,
the drive speed may be off, or a combination thereof.