d8b Forum

Hey there. I'm new to this forum. I just "acquired" an older d8b with a problem. The problem lies in the CPU somewhere. When it is turned on it shows boot failure and asks for system disk. I have OS disks for 3.0 but I have learned that they had a bug for system failure. When I try to use disks it shows "loading please wait". Then after a few seconds I get a blank screen with just one asterisk in top right corner flashing and the disk drive stops running. That's as far as it goes. Any ideas??? Thanks....

Tony

I would go through all the bios settings and then see if you get any further down the road with your set up. Sounds like it possible might have a dead hard drive but hard to know from over here.

Tried a different hard drive. Even went as far as putting hard drive in totally separate CPU just to see if it would start loading and still same thing. Has me stumped, and Mackie support as well. They have no clue lol.

And also different system disks. # different sets to be exact. It just gets to point of saying loading please wait, then screen goes blank, except for the flashing green asterisk, floppy stops, and just sits there.

I may happen your hard drive is not properly formatted.

Formatting and preparing the hard disk

Hope it helps.
Peter Holmquist.

HI,
I had this problem once and after much pulling out what little hair I have left, a very aggressive reseat of the video card fixed
all. Someone once told me that unless the OS sees a particular video card, it won't boot period. Hope this helps.

Have a Blessed Day
Mike W.

Now this is what I am getting. Evidently I had a bad data cable but now this is all i get and console shows error 43. The message stays at top of screen, but also flashes in center and at bottom like pictured. Flashes really quick, then just sits there and does nothing else

I don't recall ever seeing Windows 2000. The machine was made prior. Maybe I'm wrong. Just an observation.

Peter.

It won't hurt to clean and re-seat all cards and connectors, including memory.

Phil

I believe Makie's OS need Windows 2000 layer compatibility to run. To me it looks like the OS don't start to initialize for some reason. Maybe a clean reinstall would make it.

Triple check the data cable again.