SE/30 help

[Michael L Kankiewicz]

Hello. all. I have a few SE/30's sitting around I'd like to get up and
running to donate to local needy organizations for word processing and
spreadsheets, etc., maybe even email, or for kids to play with. I'm
hoping you folks can help.

Here's the first one:

Boots up with smiley icon just fine, then after several seconds a
cross-eyed sad mac icon appeaers, with two lines below it:

0000000F
00000029

If I try to start up from my LCIII 7.1 "Install Me First" disk, it just
spits it out and the same thing happens. If I try to start up with the
Disk Tools disk from the same set, I get an error message saying

"This startup disk will not work on this Macintosh model. System 7.1 does
not work on this model; You need a newer version that does."

Is it just me, or does this message not make sense? Any help woud be
great appreciated as I'd like to get these Macs up and running and into
the hands of people who can use them.

MK

[B'ichela]

In article <Pine.GSO.4.05.103110...@hercules.acsu.buffalo.edu>, Michael L Kankiewicz wrote:
> Boots up with smiley icon just fine, then after several seconds a
> cross-eyed sad mac icon appeaers, with two lines below it:
>
> 0000000F
> 00000029

Your HD or memory might be muffed up. Try Zapping the PRAM
hold down Command-Option-p-r keys all at the same time Hold them down
until you get the second "bong". it will reset
the machine to factory standard. Very useful too if your cmos battery
is shot. However to anwswer the second question:

> "This startup disk will not work on this Macintosh model. System 7.1 does
> not work on this model; You need a newer version that does."
>
> Is it just me, or does this message not make sense? Any help woud be
> great appreciated as I'd like to get these Macs up and running and into

ON the apple Web site there is a System 7.5.3 boot floppy that should
work. its a 1.44 image though. Just make the floppy boot disk and try
that. Your HD may be toasty. but if you can get a mac to boot. you can
begin the job of finding out what happened.
If you need to install the whole 7.5.3 system. you can get it
as floppy images or the big CD-Rom image from Apple's web/ftp site.
Install the 7.5.5 update 2.0 too to get it to 7.5.5. I did it. it was
easy.

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[Ernie Klein]

In article
<Pine.GSO.4.05.103110...@hercules.acsu.buffalo.edu>,

Michael L Kankiewicz <mich...@buffalo.edu> wrote:

> Hello. all. I have a few SE/30's sitting around I'd like to get up and
> running to donate to local needy organizations for word processing and
> spreadsheets, etc., maybe even email, or for kids to play with. I'm
> hoping you folks can help.
>
> Here's the first one:
>
> Boots up with smiley icon just fine, then after several seconds a
> cross-eyed sad mac icon appeaers, with two lines below it:
>
> 0000000F
> 00000029
>

The internal PRAM battries may have gone dead, which in many cases will
cause the sad Mac.

--
-Ernie-

"There are only two kinds of computer users -- those who have
suffered a catastrophic hard drive failure, and those who will."

Have you done your backup today?

[Gregory Weston]

In article
<Pine.GSO.4.05.103110...@hercules.acsu.buffalo.edu>,
Michael L Kankiewicz <mich...@buffalo.edu> wrote:

> Hello. all. I have a few SE/30's sitting around I'd like to get up and
> running to donate to local needy organizations for word processing and
> spreadsheets, etc., maybe even email, or for kids to play with. I'm
> hoping you folks can help.
>
> Here's the first one:
>
> Boots up with smiley icon just fine, then after several seconds a
> cross-eyed sad mac icon appeaers, with two lines below it:
>
> 0000000F
> 00000029

That error means "Can't load the Finder." Guessing the internal hard
drive has an incomplete system folder or damaged components.

G