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| Click here to select a new forum. | | Mac II not starting up | Posted by: tor77 on 2017-02-07 11:28:18
Today I bought 7 old macs (My wife is starting to wonder why she married me now)
This guy had two IIe, two Mac II, to SE's and one Quadra 800 :b&w: .
Quad 800 booted right up, like no problem (What a great computer that was in its day) . The SE's did not give me any trouble either.
The Mac II did not boot up, one was missing a HD, but the other one had this 5,25 HDD. Still it did not boot - not sure why - completely dead. Anyone got any thoughts about this?
Now, I've got so many macs I have to park outside the garage..
| Posted by: BadGoldEagle on 2017-02-07 11:40:50
The Mac II needs two working PRAM batteries in order to generate some video. If you haven't replaced them, do now. It might just boot up.
You'll like this
NB: the batteries may be soldered to the logic board (like in the video), sometimes there are sockets...
Someone made a battery adapter for the Mac II. Link
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