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bman6074

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Hi,
I received an old Macintosh SE. It had a disk stuck in the drive and would not boot at first. Once I got the disk out of the drive, it booted up fine. After clicking around for a few minutes I chose the shutdown option to turn it off. It told me it was safe to turn the MAC off so I switched it off.
Now when I turn on the Macintosh it boots up but then goes right into a screensaver which appears to have a lock on it. When I move the mouse a small box appears on the screen and I can type into it and the characters come up in little apple’s.
Does anyone know how to bypass this? I am not an expert in MAC so if you can be as detailed as possible that would be much appreciated.
Thank you in advanced
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bman6074 said:
Hi,
I received an old Macintosh SE. It had a disk stuck in the drive and would not boot at first. Once I got the disk out of the drive, it booted up fine. After clicking around for a few minutes I chose the shutdown option to turn it off. It told me it was safe to turn the MAC off so I switched it off.
Now when I turn on the Macintosh it boots up but then goes right into a screensaver which appears to have a lock on it. When I move the mouse a small box appears on the screen and I can type into it and the characters come up in little apple’s.
Does anyone know how to bypass this? I am not an expert in MAC so if you can be as detailed as possible that would be much appreciated.
Thank you in advanced
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Try booting off another disk and look to see what kind of extensions are in the Hard Drives System Folder see if any might be a security extension or forget the disk and see if holding shift at startup stops it. i could be wrong as I have never ran into this problem before. And its Mac not MAC.
 
You can boot the Mac up without loading the extensions by holding down the Shift key.
 
This belongs in the "Collectors" forum.

This belongs in the Collector's forum.

This is some security software - I forgot what it is. Holding the "shift" down, the unit will still be locked. I remember using some sort of "unlock" floppy to boot from and use a master admin password to disable the security.

It's best if you download the System 7 discs and reformat the drive and reinstall the system...
 
Hi,
Thank you for the suggestion that worked. I was wondering how to turn off the screensaver password? I went into the control panel where I found AfterDark program which I am assuming is the screensaver. But it won't let me open it, say a reboot is needed to open the application. After I reboot I am back in the password issue.
Any ideas how to disable the screensaver or change the password?
Thanks in advance.
 
GimmeSlack12 said:
No. Its the AfterDark screensaver protection.
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It sure sounds a lot like "At Ease" from the description. Hopefully it is "AfterDark" though.


And if it is "At Ease", it'll be hard to remove. "At Ease" writes stuff into sectors of the disk that can't be accessed by the Finder... so really the only way to remove it completely is to reformat and reinstall as I recall.

If it was me, I'd boot off a utility disk, see if there is anything were saving on the drive, back up any of that to an exterior drive, and start over.

:rolleyes:

Of course with all the old stuff I have lying around, all of that would be really straight forward.
 
RacerX said:
And if it is "At Ease", it'll be hard to remove. "At Ease" writes stuff into sectors of the disk that can't be accessed by the Finder... so really the only way to remove it completely is to reformat and reinstall as I recall.
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I may be wrong or used another version of At Ease but I got a old Performa 550 from a school with At Ease and all I had to do was boot from a floppy and remove the At Ease Extension and Control Panel and it was gone.
 
Spock said:
I may be wrong or used another version of At Ease but I got a old Performa 550 from a school with At Ease and all I had to do was boot from a floppy and remove the At Ease Extension and Control Panel and it was gone.
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I agree, its not very hard to remove.

I didn't think At Ease worked in Mac OS's prior to System 7. And the last I checked the SE only ran up to System 6.0.8. I still say it's After Dark.
 
sushi said:
The Mac SE worked fine with System 7 up through system 7.5.5.

On a side note I have a soft spot for the Mac SE as it was my developer platform many years ago! :)
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I also have a soft spot for the SE, it was my third Mac and the first time I had ever used System 7.
 
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