lc475 startup issues

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imactheknife

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Jun 28, 2022
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I have a lc475 that's recapped. I didn't check floppy function before recap. It did boot fine from hard drive etc...after recap I noticed issues with floppy or floppy controller possibly? If I have nothing attached to computer (no floppy, no hard drive no ram, but has onboard ram and vram still) new pram battery, I turn on, get chime, but instead of flashing question mark I get an X. It will boot from a hard drive, but floppy does not work, won't mount. I tried differenrt drive, different cable still the same. Sometimes I get a dialog box that will keep coming back saying initialization failed disk is locked! What is happening? how to fix this? Thanks for any info
 

imactheknife

New Tinkerer
Jun 28, 2022
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recapped and cleaned the caps near floppy / power connector on logic board and it has fixed this lc 475. Floppy works perfectly now so either a short, or not good solder connection etc