Il giorno 04/03/17 19.30, "Alex Ander" ha scritto: > I decided to give an old Performa 5300 a go. > the built in monitor comes up and a disk with a question mark that keeps > flashing. That means it cannot find a bootable System. It's either the hard disk is dead, or there's no bootable System on it.
> I tried holding down the option key when booting up to see If it would give > me boot up choices, but just the same. I can't remember if option-boot was already working at the time. If you have them handy, you could try inserting a System floppy disk, or a System CD. To boot from CD, you need to keep pressed the "C" key on the keyboard while starting up the Mac. > Does anyone remember other boot option commands? Here are some startup key combinations for Mac: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201255 Keep in mind not all of them will be working on such an old Mac. > It was running system 7 or 8, I can't remember. It did run System 7.5 to 9.1: http://apple-history.com/5300 HTH, Valter -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.