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dmroper
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I know there are probably threads right in front of me about this, but- Haven't found one just yet..
Just curious (WELL, not just curious- I've got an imac 350 that may have been messed up)- What if someone tried to upgrade to OSX without first updating the firmware?
What happened was.. Someone at work wanted to upgrade our imac 350 to OSX. Memory was only 64MB, so I cautioned against it.. Of course, my not being the mac expert disqualifies my opinion entirely (though I am CCNP, MSCE, MSCA, A+, Network+, blah blah blah).. Turns out, halfway through the install, screen went to a dark dark blue, hardly visible, but visible still nonetheless. Now, it chimes on boot, then appears to just doing anything alltogether (light eventually turns green, etc). No grey screen when powered on, etc.- Screen=blank. Nothing happens when I try to force a boot from cd, holding that command key and c or whatever down- nothing. Of course, can't boot from osx cd, and I'm still waiting for those os9 discs that I ordered.
I do have three other imacs, three 333 imacs, running 9.2. I've heard bits and pieces about fixes having to do with removing the hard drives, yada yada yada, but I know so little about macs that I am hesitant to try anything.
Any ideas regarding what I could try?
Also, any friendly help trying to find some threads dealing with this issue would be greatly appreciated..
I'm lost here in mac-world, though I am learning a lot as I go. I keep buying these old 333 imacs from a local school district liquidating their old machines because they're way cooler than the first (and last) mac I ever used- a mac 128 way back in the day.. My 5 year old loves them and I'm consideringmoving over to one of them permanently for my midi projects.
THanks again,
Dave
Just curious (WELL, not just curious- I've got an imac 350 that may have been messed up)- What if someone tried to upgrade to OSX without first updating the firmware?
What happened was.. Someone at work wanted to upgrade our imac 350 to OSX. Memory was only 64MB, so I cautioned against it.. Of course, my not being the mac expert disqualifies my opinion entirely (though I am CCNP, MSCE, MSCA, A+, Network+, blah blah blah).. Turns out, halfway through the install, screen went to a dark dark blue, hardly visible, but visible still nonetheless. Now, it chimes on boot, then appears to just doing anything alltogether (light eventually turns green, etc). No grey screen when powered on, etc.- Screen=blank. Nothing happens when I try to force a boot from cd, holding that command key and c or whatever down- nothing. Of course, can't boot from osx cd, and I'm still waiting for those os9 discs that I ordered.
I do have three other imacs, three 333 imacs, running 9.2. I've heard bits and pieces about fixes having to do with removing the hard drives, yada yada yada, but I know so little about macs that I am hesitant to try anything.
Any ideas regarding what I could try?
Also, any friendly help trying to find some threads dealing with this issue would be greatly appreciated..
I'm lost here in mac-world, though I am learning a lot as I go. I keep buying these old 333 imacs from a local school district liquidating their old machines because they're way cooler than the first (and last) mac I ever used- a mac 128 way back in the day.. My 5 year old loves them and I'm consideringmoving over to one of them permanently for my midi projects.
THanks again,
Dave