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Help! My Mac won't boot (G5 iMac on Panther 3.9)
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<blockquote data-quote="frisbeefodder" data-source="post: 644904" data-attributes="member: 53507"><p>Hi guys,</p><p>I left my (pre intel G5) iMac for about an hour. Nothing has been usual lately (no slowness or hard drive noises etc) and it had gone into sleep mode. When I woke it up the screen was frozen.</p><p></p><p>I restarted and since then I have either got the dreaded question mark showing the OS can't detect the hard drive or I get a no entry sign instead of the Mac logo.</p><p></p><p>I have tried booting from some diagnostic disks and the harddrive doesn't appear in the list of drives to analyse (my external drive appears).</p><p></p><p>I have tried rebooting a few times and it has started up but then frozen after a minute or two.</p><p></p><p>I tried booting in safe mode and I am now getting the following message:</p><p><strong>unable to find driver for this platform: "powermac8,1" </strong>and a whole bunch of other stuff... </p><p></p><p><strong>Also no debugger congfigured - dumping debug information.</strong>.</p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Panic.. we are hanging here ... etc!</strong></p><p></p><p>Also I can't eject the disk utility desk now! I know you can hold down the mouse button and eject the desk but I don't have a mouse any more as I am using a graphics pad.. and it doesn't seem to be working with my graphics tablet... I tried holding down my tablet left button and instead of the chime was a long beep sound fropm the mac speaker which I've never heard a mac make before!!</p><p></p><p>Update - when trying to re-install the software (I tried the Panther, also the Tiger OS install disk) there are no destination drives to install to under 'Select a destination'.</p><p></p><p>It doesn't seem to be a hardware problem, but it may well be - but I have no ideas at the moment. Any ideas guys? Thanks in advance...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="frisbeefodder, post: 644904, member: 53507"] Hi guys, I left my (pre intel G5) iMac for about an hour. Nothing has been usual lately (no slowness or hard drive noises etc) and it had gone into sleep mode. When I woke it up the screen was frozen. I restarted and since then I have either got the dreaded question mark showing the OS can't detect the hard drive or I get a no entry sign instead of the Mac logo. I have tried booting from some diagnostic disks and the harddrive doesn't appear in the list of drives to analyse (my external drive appears). I have tried rebooting a few times and it has started up but then frozen after a minute or two. I tried booting in safe mode and I am now getting the following message: [B]unable to find driver for this platform: "powermac8,1" [/B]and a whole bunch of other stuff... [B]Also no debugger congfigured - dumping debug information.[/B]. [B] Panic.. we are hanging here ... etc![/B] Also I can't eject the disk utility desk now! I know you can hold down the mouse button and eject the desk but I don't have a mouse any more as I am using a graphics pad.. and it doesn't seem to be working with my graphics tablet... I tried holding down my tablet left button and instead of the chime was a long beep sound fropm the mac speaker which I've never heard a mac make before!! Update - when trying to re-install the software (I tried the Panther, also the Tiger OS install disk) there are no destination drives to install to under 'Select a destination'. It doesn't seem to be a hardware problem, but it may well be - but I have no ideas at the moment. Any ideas guys? Thanks in advance... [/QUOTE]
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