I just bought an old iMac G3. It worked great and I was playing around with it. It had OSX on it. I put in my OSX disk that I got when I bought my new laptop. I realize now it was a bad idea, because it said it installed it and then when it restarted it chimed and now is just sitting there with the Apple logo and the progress wheel. Is there any hope for this machine to work again?

Well you would have to load the operating system disc that came with Imac G3 which most like would be Mac os 9.something. Or you would need an operating system disc up to OS X 10.4.11 because that's the last version i believe G3's are supported. Canadian Web Hosting Canadian Web Hosting

jgalty is right because I have an iMac DV that's running 10.4.11. Leopard 10.5 will not run on these machine...i remember using my Leopard install DVD to upgrade from 10.1 and it put 10.4 on there. You can try to find some OS 9.2.2 discs out there because that is the last and fastest (!) OS for those Macs. OS 9 on my iMac flew...OS X not so much. Good luck.

Thanks for the info guys. In addition, if anyone makes the same error I did, I was able to get my G3 out of its frozen state by ejecting the cd, by pushing the eject button with a paper clip that's hidden in the disk tray. p.s. Nice screen name jgalty