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iMac G3 not starting up
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<blockquote data-quote="witeshark" data-source="post: 26547" data-attributes="member: 3865"><p><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: darkred">That knocking sound isn't a good thing. I'm not sure if this applies to an older Mac G3, but restarting holding command S and getting single user mode <em>(this may well be OS X only)</em> and then type fsck and repeat until it does not say ***file system changed*** hope this helps, but a hardware (hard drive) problem may be at hand BTW I don't believe the hard drive is called "C"<img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> so it may be shop bound.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="witeshark, post: 26547, member: 3865"] [size=2][color=darkred]That knocking sound isn't a good thing. I'm not sure if this applies to an older Mac G3, but restarting holding command S and getting single user mode [i](this may well be OS X only)[/i] and then type fsck and repeat until it does not say ***file system changed*** hope this helps, but a hardware (hard drive) problem may be at hand BTW I don't believe the hard drive is called "C";) so it may be shop bound.[/color][/size] [/QUOTE]
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