Re: Mac Screen Question Mark

Jeff Greiner (greiner@netins.net)
Tue, 2 Jan 1996 20:07:51 EST

Tim Burgess <tburgess@jaguar1.usouthal.edu> wrote:
>A Mac Power book 160 has an icon appear with a question mark in the center
>of the screen. There is no other SCSI device involved. I have tried to
>reinstall the system (7.1) but I get an error message reading "..need a
>later system version than this" which is curious because it is the same
>version.
>
>Has any one run into this? Are there any suggestions?

Tim:

The system software has been corrupted somewhere along the way. A clean
reinstall with the orginal system disks is the best bet. Do this by
inserting the System Tools or Utilities disk, whichever came with that
machine. Then go into the system folder and throw away the Finder and the
System files. Restart and install the first install disk.

If you don't have the orginal disks, use Norton Utilities 3.1 if you have
that around. It will allow you to make a bootable Disk Doctor floppy for
that powerbook. It may fix the problem. Another option would be to
upgrade to System 7.5 or get the orginal system disks from Apple. Good
luck!!

Jeff Greiner
K-12 Technology Coordinator
Hampton-Dumont CSD
Hampton, IA
http://www.netins.net/showcase/macintosh Macintosh Educators Page
email: greiner@netins.net

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