sad mac

Folks, if any of you happen to be owners of a GCC HyperDrive, I would appreciate hearing your thoughts. Mine is a 10MB drive mechanism installed in a Macintosh 512K with 64K Rev.B ROMs, and has an internal 400K floppy drive. I made 3 videos about my setup in the past so by watching those you...

I was browsing the Call-A.P.P.L.E. website and came across this "Black & Bleu Version 10 with License" article about a program that comprehensively lists errors and Sad Mac codes with information and details. So, I headed over to the Macintosh Garden. I was intrigued. So, I downloaded the Black...

Hello :giggle:! A few weeks ago I posted here asking for help with my Mac Plus. I fixed the error by replacing the U3 Optocoupler with a 4N35. Now, everytime I turn it on, my Mac Plus does the chime sound, gives video, and displays the sad face (althought, sometimes displays a few random lines...

I've been testing my inventory of 1MB RAM SIMMs using my Mac SE Reloaded machine, and with one particular set of SIMMs, I get a Sad Mac at cold boot showing these 2 lines: 00000004 <— "Bank A" 00004000 <— Failed bits... AABBCCDD AA = bits 31-24 BB = bits 23-16 CC = bits 15-8 DD = bits 7-0...

UPDATE! :) Gary Rice generously released the Black & Bleu - The Ultimate Mac Error Codes Utility on Macintosh Garden. This is an excellent resource for making sense of the Sad Mac codes, more than what is listed below. Apple's overview below is a good guide to introducing yourself and getting...

Recently I picked up a PowerBook 100 for cheap because it lacked the CPU card. Fortune favored me in that the CPU card was available from a seller in Tunisia and not labeled for the 100 - they had it listed by part number. Starting up the old machine resulted in the sad mac code: 0000000E...