mailnews@allegra.UUCP (Henry Kautz's mailnews program) (01/21/88)
Coral Allegro Common Lisp appears pretty nifty, but the dialog designer can be hazardous to your Mac II's health. Using with a SuperMac Spectrum color board, strange things happened -- random shifts in color. Then, POW, the system crashed. Now it won't boot. Not from a floppy, not from the hard disk, period. No control-shift-etc magic seems to help. Maybe parameter RAM is screwed up, but since it won't even boot from a floppy (it just turns itself off after about 1 second) there is no way to do the command-shift-option-control panel trick. So, back to the dealer, who will undoubtably insist we buy a new motherboard. Any other suggestions? ---- Henry Kautz :uucp: allegra!kautz :arpa: or :csnet: kautz@allegra.att.com :old style csnet: kautz%allegra@btl.csnet :mail: AT&T Bell Laboratories Room 3C-402A 600 Mountain Ave. Murray Hill, N.J. 07974 :office phone: (201) 582-2815
jv0l+@andrew.cmu.edu (Justin Chris Vallon) (01/27/88)
You say your parameter RAM is screwed up. I know that on older Macs (128K, 512K, plus, etc), if you remove the battery for a little while and then replace it, the RAM will be reset when the power is returned. I don't know if this helps you, since I don't know if the Mac II's battery can be removed; it's a start. -Justin justin.vallon@andrew.cmu.edu
gillies@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu (01/28/88)
This question comes up 3 times a year. Under finder 6.0, hold down
command-shit-option and open the control panel. A dialog box will
appear and ask if you want to reset the PRAM. Click YES.
Some companies (CMS) also make a PRAM reset tool to distribute with
their disks. This tool is also very handy, and I wish there was a
public domain version.
I have to reset the Mac II PRAM about 10% of the time when I have a
hard crash.
Don Gillies {ihnp4!uiucdcs!gillies} U of Illinois
{gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu}hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Robert Joseph Hammen) (01/29/88)
In article <76000107@uiucdcsp> gillies@uiucdcsp.cs.uiuc.edu types: > >This question comes up 3 times a year. Under finder 6.0, hold down >command-shit-option and open the control panel. A dialog box will ^^^^ Boy, I never saw that key, even on the Extended keyboard... >Some companies (CMS) also make a PRAM reset tool to distribute with >their disks. This tool is also very handy, and I wish there was a >public domain version. When I was demoing a Mac II last April (right after it was announced), we had a 'Zap PRAM' application (presumably from Apple, since this was a pre-release machine). It would have been nice to have included this on the System Tools disks, or at least have the procedure documented somewhere with the machine. ========================================================================= Robert Hammen Computer Applications hammen@csd4.milw.wisc.edu Delphi: HAMMEN GEnie: R.Hammen CI$: 70701,2104