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Floppy drive – Apple Mac PowerBook 550c User Manual

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Troubleshooting

Symptom Charts/Floppy Drive - 11

Floppy Drive

Audio and video

present, but internal

floppy drive does not

operate

1 Try known-good floppy disk.

2 Check floppy drive cable connection.

3 Replace floppy drive cable.

4 Replace floppy drive.

5 Replace motherboard.

Disk ejects while

booting; display

shows Mac icon with

blinking X

1 Try known-good system disk.

2 Verify that trackpad and trackpad button are working.

3 Verify that keyboard is working.

4 Check floppy drive cable connection.

5 Replace floppy drive cable.

6 Replace floppy drive.

7 Replace motherboard.