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nigel.stevens
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iMac 800 512 mb
Was working fine - bought new machine and decided to reformat and give iMac to daughter.
Put in installation disk and reformatted - it said it was an older version of the os but I can't see how!!
All seemed to go fine entered options and it chirped along hapily telling me what it was reinstalling but on reboot it died. It will only start up and give a chime, Apple logo comes on, and then a grey curtain comes down. A popup tells me I have to restart the machine and we start all over again.
It has eaten the system disk and wont give it back. I have reset the pmu and it's not connected to anything else. I know I should have left it alone but hindsight is 20/20.
Is this a case fot the scrap heap now?
regards
Nigel
Was working fine - bought new machine and decided to reformat and give iMac to daughter.
Put in installation disk and reformatted - it said it was an older version of the os but I can't see how!!
All seemed to go fine entered options and it chirped along hapily telling me what it was reinstalling but on reboot it died. It will only start up and give a chime, Apple logo comes on, and then a grey curtain comes down. A popup tells me I have to restart the machine and we start all over again.
It has eaten the system disk and wont give it back. I have reset the pmu and it's not connected to anything else. I know I should have left it alone but hindsight is 20/20.
Is this a case fot the scrap heap now?
regards
Nigel