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imac boot failure and ends up in open fi

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Name: Roberto H. Tucker
Date: February 3, 2002 at 14:58:26 Pacific
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I just bought an imac 400 mhz/DVD. When it starts this comes up Mac OS: Boot Failure (OXF3C48IF6). then Mac OS: ROM checksum Failure.

Then it gos to Apple POwerMac2 1.2.441 boot ROM built on 02/12/00 at 9:45:32
Then it tells me Welcome to Open firmware. To continue booting type "mac-boot" and press return. I do this and gives me the Mac OS startup symbol and it stays there.

Need help!



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Name: the pickle
Date: February 3, 2002 at 18:54:52 Pacific
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Sounds like your OS is pretty screwy. Try booting it from an OS CD and wiping the hard disk, then reinstalling.

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Name: the fish
Date: February 3, 2002 at 18:59:35 Pacific
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instead of typing mac-boot, try typing bye

if it doesn't start up normally after that,
then there's just some obscure bug going
on- do you have a system disk or utilities
disk to boot from??


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