To all those helpful people out there.
I have had a similar problem and I thought it may be my monitor.
I have a 3 year old iMac (400Mhz G3 slot CD/DVD) (actually bought in
Canada).
I thought the monitor had failed.
I have just replaced the hard disk and was installing OSX when the
installation stalled (spinning sunrays) and the screen had a band
across it
of like cross hatching. I turned the machine off, waited a while
turned it
back on but only got a black screen. When I turn this off, I get a
glimpse
of the Apple logo on a greenish screen for about a quarter of a second.
I did not do any firmware updates.
I asked an Apple centre what the problem may be and they said a logic board
or analogue board or CRT failure.
Could it be if I install OS9, do the firmware updates then install OSX I
will not have to lug the iMac from Karratha to Perth for nothing?
Thanks in advance.
James Rutherford
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From: Frank Salleo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: William Currie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: OSX install woes
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 09:45:24 +0800
Bill
You are lucky it still starts up. Before you do any thing else. Start
up from system 9 and do the firmware update that is on the OSX disc.
I'll repeat that.
Before you do any thing else. Start up from system 9 and do the
firmware update that is on the OSX disc.
We have had two imacs that staff have upgraded without doing the
firmware update that will not boot up at all. The unis and repair shops
will tell you horror stories about new motherboards to fix this, or
swapping hard discs and motherboards with other imacs.
look at the apple web site and at the wamug archives for more info.
I could not get any of our imacs to startup after the first time they
booted into 10.2 the light comes on for about 10 secs and then goes
off. We tried pram resets, swapping hds and motherboards. Could not get
it to start.
This is poorly documented at apple. Just tells you to do the firmware
update before you install 10.2.
The 10.2 installation checks for the firmware updates on all macs
except for crt imacs. The readme on the discs tell you to do the
firmware update, but how many of us actually read this.
Cheers
Frank
On Tuesday, April 15, 2003, at 10:16 PM, William Currie wrote:
iMac 333 (tray loading) 160Mb 6 Gb system 10.2.1
I recently went all out and bought a copy of OSX but struck a problem.
On boot, the machine hangs with a text screen which reads:
bootr, unknown word
failed to boot
Apple iMac open firmware 3.0 f10 built on 03/05/99 at 21.14.19
copyright.. (etc)
ok
0>_
I typed <boot> <return> and hey presto, OSX launches and runs normally.
My question is.. how do I get it to jump past the command line stuff?
Attempted solutions;
1. erased disk and reinstalled from scratch
2. downloaded firmware update 1.2
could not install firmware update. Requires system 9.2 (classic)
which doesn't come with OSX (I am updating from 8.5)
3. searched apple support site for info but gave up after half an hour
Any ideas?
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