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Powerbook 180 cursor and nothing else

Posted by: Jon183 on 2017-12-20 02:43:33 Got my 180 today, very cheap with a lot of stuff in a bag, coincidentally came from a teacher at my old school. It just has a movable cursor and a warping noise like a sci-fi teleporter. A working floppy bootdisk did nothing. Got spare parts for it though. Will upload pictures once I open it and get off my phone which refuses to upload photos 90% of the time.

Posted by: Jon183 on 2017-12-20 05:15:26 Insides look fine, this happens after a new HDD, no RAM expansion module and a clean of the PCB near the zener diode area. Happens with or without 145B bootdisk or any other bootdisk (only tried 7.1 disks).

Posted by: bibilit on 2017-12-20 05:50:59 Have you the enabler 131 available ? http://www.savagetaylor.com/2015/11/23/macintosh-system-enablers-for-os-7-1-to-7-5-5-current-versions-and-change-history/

Posted by: Jon183 on 2017-12-20 06:07:16 Cheers, Ill try it in the next 15 min.

Posted by: Jon183 on 2017-12-20 07:10:12 Managed to get the system enabler file to a floppy, then to the LC to extract, then back to the PC to compile a 7.1 disk. Will try once its written. I should learn how to use mini vmac.

Posted by: Jon183 on 2017-12-20 07:42:51 Thanks for the help, its great to have my first working 68k laptop. I will check if the RAM module was the problem tomorrow. I hope it works, not sure why 4 chips have a shiny surface.

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