Re: I think my IIGS just died...

[msc1983@mac.com (Matthew Carpenter)]

In article <3D34F4F1.DFB56152@intergate.ca>, Wayne Stewart
<waynes@intergate.ca> wrote:

> Matthew Carpenter wrote:
>  
> > I pulled all the cards and turned it on.  It still does the same thing.
> > 
> > I looked in my IIGS manual and found where it talked about a system test.
> > I was able to make it run the test and at the end it displayed the message
> > "System Good".  Of cource afterward I still got the same problem I've been
> > having since last night.
> 
> Try disconnecting the floppy drives, maybe one of them has started
> drawing a 
> lot of power and you don't have enough left to run your IIgs. If you
> have a 
> volt meter you could check the power supplies voltages. I can't think of 
> much more you can do.
> 
>         Wayne

After pulling out cards, putting in cards, disconecting cables, pulling
out and swapping Powersupplies and such..I was just ready to give up.  So
what do I do?  I go to pull something off the table and knock my Apple
IIGS users guide off the table... it flopped open to a page in the trouble
shooting section... it said something about resetting the system's
settings... it said to press [control]+[option]+[reset]..so I
did...::blank screen::..then it said to press [2]..so I did...*Beep!* the
screen turned a medium blue with white text..the IIGS ROM 1 boot
screen..then another beep and "Plese check startup device!" with a sliding
apple animation.  so I went into the controll panel and set everything up
as I had had it and everything was working fine again..

Then I noticed a disk sticking out of my floppy drive...I rememberd
wanting to see what was on the disk..it was some demo or something....so I
pushed it in and made the IIGS boot up to it again... *beep!*..::Blank
Screen::..It was the demo disk that put my IIGS out of comision the first
time.  So I just did what the users guide said again and then I pulled the
floppy out and snapped it in half.  (sure, I suppose I could have formated
it and used it for something else, but the disk was rather old anyway and
I wouldn't trust it to keep anything I saved on it for very long).
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