G3 mac second hand - no password

rivercottage · Nov 13, 2006

Hi!

Ive just got a g3 imac from ebay with ox9 installed, they have two accounts set up, the administrator and a limited account - i have no password for the administrator account so have no control over the computer, i cant even install osx from the student account as 'i dont have enough privallages to change the boot disk' - any help would be great

RiverCottage

Zoolook · Nov 13, 2006

rivercottage said:
Hi!

Ive just got a g3 imac from ebay with ox9 installed, they have two accounts set up, the administrator and a limited account - i have no password for the administrator account so have no control over the computer, i cant even install osx from the student account as 'i dont have enough privallages to change the boot disk' - any help would be great

RiverCottage

Just hold down the C key whilst booting with the CD in the drive. You'll have to rebuild the machine completely though.

If you can, I suggest installing OS X 10.3.

rivercottage · Nov 13, 2006

Thanks for a super quick reply, all is working well and osx slowly installing itself

..gosh ive wanted a green imac for many a year now! now finaly have one!

Zoolook · Nov 13, 2006

rivercottage said:
Thanks for a super quick reply, all is working well and osx slowly installing itself

..gosh ive wanted a green imac for many a year now! now finaly have one!

Excellent... how much RAM do you have?

rivercottage · Nov 13, 2006

Its got 192mb i think, so should be ok, im not expecting fluidity and speed, just a bit of nice

turn of the dock and some other things..?

Zoolook · Nov 13, 2006

rivercottage said:
Its got 192mb i think, so should be ok, im not expecting fluidity and speed, just a bit of nice turn of the dock and some other things..?

Ouch... the extra RAM really helps in those old machines, but yeah it should run... well... stroll is probably a more appropriate word!

UnaClocker · Nov 13, 2006

I have 360meg of ram in my iMac.. Can run just about anything, one at a time.. I'll eventually move it up to 512..

rivercottage · Nov 14, 2006

Well, its all loaded on now, a little slow booting but im impressed with how it runs so well!

RiverCottage