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amacnut
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Well, it's like this.
I have an imac G3 333, and it was good. One day a flashing questionmark turned up. Shutdown/restart. It had gone, only to return and after 3 or 4 further shutdown/startups. I consulted the oracles.
"zap your PRAM" they said. Yes
"reset your CUDA" they chimed. Yes
"hold down as many buttons as you can on startup" yeah, OK
"reload your OS" they chorused. Well, it was running 9.2.2 when it arrived via a warehouse sale, and those disks didn't come with the machine. So I tried 9.1.
"No, it must be the ORIGINAL disks that came with the computer" they laughed. And those would be? 8.5 for yours. So after 3 weeks and a bidding war on Ebay I tried again.
"well obviously your harddrive is fried" they surmised. The man from CompUSA didn't seem to think so, having tested it on a p.c. (the mac man was ill that day)
"tweaked, wobbled and generally poked around with HD connections" Yes
"norton utilities?" Wouldn't get near it.
Generally the proceedure is with every OS: Switch on/flashing questionmark immediately/disk in/disk reading noises/smiley face/startup background/error 41 "finder"
Beginning to suspect CompUSA man of conspiracy, I plugged the HD into an old p.c. that was lying around. Yes, the disk worked, but it was also full, it said. Ah! with 6GB gone, it was unable to accept any more commands or even go through the reinstall process, I thought. So, I erased all the data and reformatted in Dos, hoping that the imac would reformat the disk later...was this stupid? the p.c. was capable of it....having first seen that there was space to play with.
So now I've erased all the data I had and it still does the same, it never even gets near the HD it seems. Motherboard?
I am beginning to hate that imac, which is a shame, because my son loves it.
I am lost. Help?
I have an imac G3 333, and it was good. One day a flashing questionmark turned up. Shutdown/restart. It had gone, only to return and after 3 or 4 further shutdown/startups. I consulted the oracles.
"zap your PRAM" they said. Yes
"reset your CUDA" they chimed. Yes
"hold down as many buttons as you can on startup" yeah, OK
"reload your OS" they chorused. Well, it was running 9.2.2 when it arrived via a warehouse sale, and those disks didn't come with the machine. So I tried 9.1.
"No, it must be the ORIGINAL disks that came with the computer" they laughed. And those would be? 8.5 for yours. So after 3 weeks and a bidding war on Ebay I tried again.
"well obviously your harddrive is fried" they surmised. The man from CompUSA didn't seem to think so, having tested it on a p.c. (the mac man was ill that day)
"tweaked, wobbled and generally poked around with HD connections" Yes
"norton utilities?" Wouldn't get near it.
Generally the proceedure is with every OS: Switch on/flashing questionmark immediately/disk in/disk reading noises/smiley face/startup background/error 41 "finder"
Beginning to suspect CompUSA man of conspiracy, I plugged the HD into an old p.c. that was lying around. Yes, the disk worked, but it was also full, it said. Ah! with 6GB gone, it was unable to accept any more commands or even go through the reinstall process, I thought. So, I erased all the data and reformatted in Dos, hoping that the imac would reformat the disk later...was this stupid? the p.c. was capable of it....having first seen that there was space to play with.
So now I've erased all the data I had and it still does the same, it never even gets near the HD it seems. Motherboard?
I am beginning to hate that imac, which is a shame, because my son loves it.
I am lost. Help?