imac G3 350MHz won't boot
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Name: PaulWestenkirchner
Date: October 25, 2004 at 11:49:02 Pacific
Subject: imac G3 350MHz won't bootOS: 9 or XCPU/Ram: G3/128M |
Comment: imac (350 MHz, slot loading G3) won't boot off the hard drive nor the CD. the system makes the normal sound and then just displays a flashing question mark. booting from the CD displays a flashing system folder. i've tried all the regular keyboard presses (reset PRAM, reset NVRAM, ...). the machine will not come up in open firmware mode. i pulled the hard drive and read it with another computer and it appears good. any clues on why this imac won't boot from either hard drive nor CD?
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Response Number 1
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Name: Cis Wood
Date: October 25, 2004 at 15:36:04 Pacific
Subject: imac G3 350MHz won't boot |
Reply: (edit)Did you hold the 'c' key down when you tried to boot off the cd. Also, look through past posts on this forum. I have seen a couple of useful things do in situations like yours.
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Name: MikeG
Date: October 26, 2004 at 14:30:49 Pacific
Subject: imac G3 350MHz won't boot |
Reply: (edit)I have the same 350GHz iMac. I had the EXACT same problem as you, but unfortunately, it was my Hard Drive that broke. I lost all my data... Hopefully you'll have better luck than I did :-( -MikeG
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Response Number 3
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Name: mac365.24.7
Date: November 5, 2004 at 07:03:37 Pacific
Subject: imac G3 350MHz won't boot |
Reply: (edit)I am thinking that that some system software is corrupt. What system are you running? If it is OS9 try rebooting from a cd and hold down the 'c' key when rebooting and then go to disk docter in the utilites folder.
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