i just bought a refurbished g3 ibook (dual usb). i am having sound problems, and someone on another board suggested i try to boot into os 9 to see if the sound worked there.

preface: os x 10.2.8 has been working (just no sound).

i switch the boot to os 9 (9.2.2 i believe).

now when i power up, i briefly get a mac icon and then it goes to a floppy disk icon with a flashing "?" in the middle of it. this stays on screen for a bit and then the laptop turns off.

how can i get back to the os x boot? i am used to windows so i tried hitting the function keys while powering up, but they dont do anything. i dont have any of the software cd's for what is installed on the machine.

thanks for any help.

hold down the x key to have it boot into os x.

it could be that the mac doesn't have a bootable os 9 install, but only an os 9 install for the classic envrioment for os x.

You could also try booting with the option key down. That should show you if it recognises 9 and 10 as viable systems.

Michael

i tried holding the x and holding the option key. neither method worked for me.

i ended up taking it to a mac repair shop and they got it going again.

thanks for the suggestions.