If you can't boot from a known good OS X CD then it
usually means a hardware failure or conflict.
It's going to take a lot of work, but you need to put
the Mac back into it's out-of-the-box configuration.
Removed any external devices, any additional RAM,
anything that didn't ship with it.
Then try booting again.
--- Thomas Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 2:31 PM -0600 4/06/2005, Mary Russell wrote:
> Thank you Mary, but when I try to boot from the OS-X
> install CD, one of two
> things happens: it either hangs frozen after the
> Apple symbol shows up and
> little gear under it spins for a minute, or else it
> pops to a green screen
> that says "you must restart your computer" in about
> five different
> languages. Restarting just causes the same thing to
> happen all over again.
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