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Hey guys just thought I'd let you know that my Imac G3 arrived yesturday.
Anyway hooked it up, got it booting, took about at least 42 minutes to get to the desktop - So somethings not quite right with it.(Me thinks hard drive is either dieing or just slow or could be the processor - Didn't realize the processor was that slow!) I just emailed my friend about it, and he said could be numerous of things. He said he did have trouble with Mac OS X 10 when he installed, but he did tell me that Mac OS 9 was also installed.
So I tried to do the command where it allows to select a boot device or something? (forgive my mac knowledge is relatively poor at the moment!) However the keyboard that he shipped with it is not actually recognised by the Mac Firmware until after Mac OS X boots. (and I only managed to get it boot into OS X once as stated) - Therefore I couldn't use the apple command.
However when I booted it up a few hours later after having a break, it did something really strange, it went straight into the firmware command screen or something after 10 minutes trying to load the OS. Something about a stop message setup. I typed in Mac-boot and it loaded for a bit and then got a mac with a question mark (?) flashing on the screen.
So somewhere along the line I must have mucked something up while I was in the OS itself.
The only thing I did was create a new user account for me to use, so I didn't have to keep booting in the administrator account and changed the desktop background and just had a look at the mac help stuff on the OS. I was only in it for a half an hour or so before I turned it off.
What are your thoughts? Did I unwittingly do something while I was in the perference panel? Have I fried something?
I'm not stressing, it's actually quite challenging to figure out why Mac OS X won't boot up and I actually quite enjoying trying to figuring it out, however I'm quite at a stump.
I know it could be a number of things? But I wonder what I did to stuff it up completely?
Anyway hooked it up, got it booting, took about at least 42 minutes to get to the desktop - So somethings not quite right with it.(Me thinks hard drive is either dieing or just slow or could be the processor - Didn't realize the processor was that slow!) I just emailed my friend about it, and he said could be numerous of things. He said he did have trouble with Mac OS X 10 when he installed, but he did tell me that Mac OS 9 was also installed.
So I tried to do the command where it allows to select a boot device or something? (forgive my mac knowledge is relatively poor at the moment!) However the keyboard that he shipped with it is not actually recognised by the Mac Firmware until after Mac OS X boots. (and I only managed to get it boot into OS X once as stated) - Therefore I couldn't use the apple command.
However when I booted it up a few hours later after having a break, it did something really strange, it went straight into the firmware command screen or something after 10 minutes trying to load the OS. Something about a stop message setup. I typed in Mac-boot and it loaded for a bit and then got a mac with a question mark (?) flashing on the screen.
So somewhere along the line I must have mucked something up while I was in the OS itself.
The only thing I did was create a new user account for me to use, so I didn't have to keep booting in the administrator account and changed the desktop background and just had a look at the mac help stuff on the OS. I was only in it for a half an hour or so before I turned it off.
What are your thoughts? Did I unwittingly do something while I was in the perference panel? Have I fried something?
I'm not stressing, it's actually quite challenging to figure out why Mac OS X won't boot up and I actually quite enjoying trying to figuring it out, however I'm quite at a stump.
I know it could be a number of things? But I wonder what I did to stuff it up completely?