Hi all! New to the site here, looks to be a lot of great information. Trying to relive my teenage years working on a Mac Plus with a 68030 accelerator card in it, which I believe to be a Novy Quik30.
To preface, I'm able to boot the external hard disk on a Mac Classic II just fine, so we know that works.
When booting the Plus, I get "Welcome to Macintosh", several seconds go by, and I get a loud repetitive tapping/clicking out of the speaker and corruption on the display. The red LED on the accelerator card comes on. This isn't the power supply tick you hear when the analog board has issues, this is a loud tapping/pulsing sound from the speaker.
When I try to boot the system in 68k mode (hold interrupt and press reset), the system comes up, I see the SilverLining disk indicator, but it dumps back to the flashing ? on the floppy disk display, it won't boot the hard disk.
I've re-seated the accelerator, re-seated all of the RAM in the machine including use of Deoxit, all to no avail. This machine was beat to heck and suffered a fall that required a replacement case, so it's kind of a sad orphan I've been trying to get going again.
My suspicion is bad RAM, but unfortunately I don't have any spare SIMMs or the means to test them anyway. That said, I'd like to know what folks use as a reliable tester for RAM (both SIMM and DIP).
I'd love to hear some suggestions/thoughts from the group! Thanks for your time.
Cordially,
Chris
To preface, I'm able to boot the external hard disk on a Mac Classic II just fine, so we know that works.
When booting the Plus, I get "Welcome to Macintosh", several seconds go by, and I get a loud repetitive tapping/clicking out of the speaker and corruption on the display. The red LED on the accelerator card comes on. This isn't the power supply tick you hear when the analog board has issues, this is a loud tapping/pulsing sound from the speaker.
When I try to boot the system in 68k mode (hold interrupt and press reset), the system comes up, I see the SilverLining disk indicator, but it dumps back to the flashing ? on the floppy disk display, it won't boot the hard disk.
I've re-seated the accelerator, re-seated all of the RAM in the machine including use of Deoxit, all to no avail. This machine was beat to heck and suffered a fall that required a replacement case, so it's kind of a sad orphan I've been trying to get going again.
My suspicion is bad RAM, but unfortunately I don't have any spare SIMMs or the means to test them anyway. That said, I'd like to know what folks use as a reliable tester for RAM (both SIMM and DIP).
I'd love to hear some suggestions/thoughts from the group! Thanks for your time.
Cordially,
Chris
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