Re: Hard drive problem?

["Charlie" <charlieDOTd@verEYEzon.net>]

<commodorejohn@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> I'm using a ROM 01 Apple IIgs with 1.25MB of RAM, a CMS II SCSI card
> and hard disk, and an 800KB 3.5" floppy drive. Everything was going
> swell until a few days ago, when things started acting up for no
> apparent reason. When I turn the machine on with no floppy in the
> drive, it will sit at the boot screen indefinitely, refusing to
> recognize the hard disk; however, if I boot from the IIgs system
> floppy and restart from GS/OS, it will recognize the hard disk and
> boot from it. (However, this only seems to work with GS/OS; booting
> from another bootable disk, such as the CMS utility disk, does not
> seem to encourage the computer to realize that yes, there is in fact a
> hard drive connected.) Does anyone here have any idea what is going on
> and how to address it, or know where I could find out?
>
> Thanks!

Check to see if your clock battery is dead/dying.
It also keeps your boot settings.

Charlie