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<blockquote data-quote="pwburke" data-source="post: 877120" data-attributes="member: 111738"><p>HI </p><p></p><p>I have a Emac G4 1.25mhz which I bought from Ebay, to replace my sons old Imac G3 (He moaned he could not watch Iplayer on it)</p><p></p><p> The problem I have is that It will not install from the combo drive, the drive mounts any disc I know it not the drive as It can read my iMac G5 Tiger Disc’s but will not install them as they are only for my G5</p><p></p><p>I also know the hard drive good as I swaped the original 40gb with the 80gb drive that I had installed in the G3 Imac. Which was running Panther 10.3.9. when I swapped the drives over the Emac booted but after a while it would freeze.</p><p></p><p>I have tried to reinstall the retail version of Panther but if fails to recognise the cd from a straight cd boot ( when pressing ‘C’ ) and only shows me the broken folder. I have also tried the same with a retail version of Jaguar and I have the same problem. Proir to me changing the hard drive to the 80gb I was having the same problem with the original 40gb drive which is now working fine in the G3 IMac</p><p></p><p>I have also tried to boot from Target Mode using my Imac G5 via a new Firewire cable and the Emac fails to mount. I get the bouncing firewire logo on the Emac but that is all.</p><p>I have tried to boot and inscert the cable at the same time but this has failed.</p><p></p><p>The serial number for this mac is</p><p></p><p>Serial number: VM43605PQJ8 </p><p>Model: Mxxxx eMac 1.25GHz model=emac_usb2 Drive=Combo</p><p>Group1: eMac</p><p>Group2: </p><p>Generation: </p><p>CPU speed: 1.25GHz</p><p>Bus speed: 167MHz</p><p>Screen size: 17 inch</p><p>Memory - number of slots: 2</p><p>Memory installed is 256mb</p><p></p><p></p><p>Would it be a firmware problem that is causing it not to install any mac os. Am now thinking about installing Linux os I can just use the machine. But am not sure what version. I would rather have Mac Os as my son has been using it since he was Two</p><p></p><p></p><p>Hope you can help</p><p></p><p>Paul</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pwburke, post: 877120, member: 111738"] HI I have a Emac G4 1.25mhz which I bought from Ebay, to replace my sons old Imac G3 (He moaned he could not watch Iplayer on it) The problem I have is that It will not install from the combo drive, the drive mounts any disc I know it not the drive as It can read my iMac G5 Tiger Disc’s but will not install them as they are only for my G5 I also know the hard drive good as I swaped the original 40gb with the 80gb drive that I had installed in the G3 Imac. Which was running Panther 10.3.9. when I swapped the drives over the Emac booted but after a while it would freeze. I have tried to reinstall the retail version of Panther but if fails to recognise the cd from a straight cd boot ( when pressing ‘C’ ) and only shows me the broken folder. I have also tried the same with a retail version of Jaguar and I have the same problem. Proir to me changing the hard drive to the 80gb I was having the same problem with the original 40gb drive which is now working fine in the G3 IMac I have also tried to boot from Target Mode using my Imac G5 via a new Firewire cable and the Emac fails to mount. I get the bouncing firewire logo on the Emac but that is all. I have tried to boot and inscert the cable at the same time but this has failed. The serial number for this mac is Serial number: VM43605PQJ8 Model: Mxxxx eMac 1.25GHz model=emac_usb2 Drive=Combo Group1: eMac Group2: Generation: CPU speed: 1.25GHz Bus speed: 167MHz Screen size: 17 inch Memory - number of slots: 2 Memory installed is 256mb Would it be a firmware problem that is causing it not to install any mac os. Am now thinking about installing Linux os I can just use the machine. But am not sure what version. I would rather have Mac Os as my son has been using it since he was Two Hope you can help Paul [/QUOTE]
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