helllllllllllp

hello all im proud to say first off that im a new MAC owner, ive been using PC for over 15 years........ Well a school my wife works for decided to sell off there old macs and get new macs.....

i got my hands on one, its nothing fancy.

its a power macintosh G3 266mhz i belive..

ok so here is my problem it has something on it called AT EASE 3.0

i dont have any of the pass words for this so i cant really use the mac becasue it boots into this AT ease 3.0, how do i get rid of it?

can i re-format or delete the whole os and start fresh?

BTW im running mac os 8.6

well thanks for any help you all have

Tris

Try this Apple tech note: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=12995. Otherwise you can reformat and reinstall everything (without At Ease) if you have the disks.

yea there is an admin pass word when i try to disable it it wont let me into the ATEASE set-up control...
also when i try to bypass it, it asks me for an admin PW which i dont have....

arghhhhhhhhhhhhhh

where can i find the os 8.6 disks?

also can i run os X?


thanks
tris

A G3/266 can run everything from Mac OS 8.1 to Mac OS X 10.2.8 Jaguar. (Maybe more if you hack it.) Originally, it came with OS 8.1 disks; if you didn't get them with the system, you'll have to find some.

You can purchase legal copies of OS 8.5 or OS 9 from
http://www.applerescue.com/#os9
Upgrades from 8.5 thru 8.6 or from 9.0 thru 9.2.2 are free from Apple.

I'd suggest OS 9 for starters; only upgrade to OS X if you have more than 256 MB of memory (Otherwise it'll be really slow.) If you do upgrade to OS X, 10.2 Jaguar would be fastest.

thanks alot guys

is there no other way to get the at ease app to stop running my mac without the PW?

also i have DL's the updates to 8.6 from download.com, hwo can i get them from my PC to my mac (ive tried using a CD, but my mac syas it cant find the file that made the .bin file, or somthing to that extent). what can i use to get these files to the mac also when i get it there how do i install it?

and if i find the 8.6 os disks how do i run them with this AT EASE 3.0 crap running?

Hi,

I bought a G3 Blue & White off of eBay that was from a school, as well, and it also had the At East software on it. I just put in a Panther CD, booted up into the CD and reformatted the Hard Drive and installed Panther. Simple as that. 8.x was cryptic as heck anyway. I LOVE Panther. lol By the way, I'm also a long-time PC user. I am now currently in the process of completely switching over to Mac.

On another note, kind of OT, I went by a relative's house this weekend and picked up a Gigabit Ethernet G4 with Dual 450MHz Processors. So, I'm a happy camper. lol

As someone said, you can run OS X upto OS 10.2.8 Jaguar, you COULD probably run Panther with XPOSTFACTO. There are a few nitchy things you have to be careful of though.