Thanks a lot for the links!
Out of curiosity, I decided to start up the computer off of battery power, and after a few tries I managed to get the machine to boot off of the System 7 install disk. When I tried to install, it didn't pick up a hard drive.
So basically now I'm back at square one
I removed the hard drive again and started rotating it in my hands, and I could hear the clicks made by the arm moving around; so this must not be the problem. However, upon closer inspection I noticed something that I missed before: one of the input pins has been dislodged and is hanging mid-way through the plastic casing. It also seems as if there is one input pin missing altogether. Intuitively, I'm thinking that if I solder the dislodged pin into place I'll be able to fix it that way, however the missing input pin presents a problem.
This mini-project seems to be presenting one small complication after another, but I'm not going to give up yet!
EDIT:
Haha, oh wow. It's actually a lot worse than I thought. The drive is supposed to be 40-pin, but 4 are unaccounted for and one seems to be trapped in the HDA cable. It would cost me a lot more $$$ to get the replacement parts than to find a second-hand machine altogether.
Oh well, I tried. Thanks for your help everyone! I'll be back if I need help with future projects!
Out of curiosity, I decided to start up the computer off of battery power, and after a few tries I managed to get the machine to boot off of the System 7 install disk. When I tried to install, it didn't pick up a hard drive.
So basically now I'm back at square one
I removed the hard drive again and started rotating it in my hands, and I could hear the clicks made by the arm moving around; so this must not be the problem. However, upon closer inspection I noticed something that I missed before: one of the input pins has been dislodged and is hanging mid-way through the plastic casing. It also seems as if there is one input pin missing altogether. Intuitively, I'm thinking that if I solder the dislodged pin into place I'll be able to fix it that way, however the missing input pin presents a problem.
This mini-project seems to be presenting one small complication after another, but I'm not going to give up yet!
EDIT:
Haha, oh wow. It's actually a lot worse than I thought. The drive is supposed to be 40-pin, but 4 are unaccounted for and one seems to be trapped in the HDA cable. It would cost me a lot more $$$ to get the replacement parts than to find a second-hand machine altogether.
Oh well, I tried. Thanks for your help everyone! I'll be back if I need help with future projects!