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Lawrence
Hi folks,
Sorry for the OT post since I know this machine's not quite old enough to
qualify, but I have a Power Mac 6100 DOS-compatible with some issues. I've never
really used one of these so I'm not sure how to go about troubleshooting.
The PC side _seems_ to be booting up ok (I can hear faint Windows system
beeps, and the PC Setup control panel reports that "PC is running") but I
can't switch over. When I hit "switch to PC" the Mac's screen goes
dimmer, the
cursor disappears, and the PC Clipboard becomes the active app, but nothing else
happens after a good 5 minutes of waiting.
I mounted the PC disk image on the Mac side and poked through it, and it
looks like there are some major filesystem issues -- open a folder and it
contains the whole top level directory listing, including itself -- open a
subfolder, same thing, etc. probably to infinity. It needs a complete reinstall
before I can even begin to figure out if there's a problem with the DOS card.
I'm told that it was working til recently, but this was the kids' computer and
one of them might've done something bizarre with the PC side.
Of COURSE the previous owner has no original CDs or floppies. :( I went to
Apple's ftp site and poked around and found the folder for this machine, but it
was empty. :( :(
Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the original software so I can
try restoring this thing? Anyone have one I can borrow (I have a CD burner)? I'd
gladly pay all postage.
Thanks,
-- MB
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