 Need Help SOS!
welp, im new to this forum because i recently recieved a mac Powerbook G3 for free and was hoping to play around and learn how to actually use a mac. Ran into a slight problem though. it has mac 8.6 OS on it. every time i boot it up, it runs fine, says that it was unexpecdidly shut down, and runs a scan, then comes up with the home screen for about 2 seconds, and goes to what i think is a screen saver then directly to black. When i push a button from this screen it asks me for a password, which i have no clue what it would be. when i press return it goes away back to black, and doesnt bring up the desktop.
Ive tried wiping the old OS and upgrading it to version 9 (only mac disc i have) it just runs with 8.6 and pulls the same stuff. and holding down the C key does the same.
im getting very frustrated, so any help would be much appreciated. i just need a way to bi-pass the password, or just wipe the system completely and start over.
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