On 5/24/10 5:26 PM, Jeremiah Stevens wrote:
Hi, I have an iMac G5 with an isight camera that I got in a trade. The owner told me it just needs a hard drive, so I ran down to my local computer store and spent $50 on a 160GB SATA hard drive. Installed it in there and fired it up. booted to the boot selection menu, where I inserted the disc. It takes anywhere from 10-20 minutes to finish loading the boot selection menu, and then when I click the install disc, it goes to the apple screen, but no spinning lines under it. It never loads the spinning loading symbol. I was wondering if anyone had any input to this idea. I have tried target disc mode, and it boots into it after around 15 minutes, but it does not show anything on my MacBooks or PowerBooks desktop. Not sure what is going on here but would love it get it going, very nice machine with the 1.9ghz PowerPC G5. I am trying to install Tiger by the way. Thanks!
Are you saying you activated Target Disk Mode on the G5 in question and it took 15 minutes before the yellow and blue Firewire logo came up on it's screen?
Those boot times are way too long, something is wrong there. I'd check the RAM for starters.
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