After installing 10.3, everything is in grayscale

[tirmonster76]

I just installed 10.3 onto a G3 Power Mac. Strange thing is that the install disks are in this grayscale. I went ahead with the install, thinking that it might get cleared up, but everything is now in grayscale. It wasn't this way before, but after installing it, the computer has lost all color. I first attempted going into the system preferences, and that hd no effect at all. Then I tried the Command-Option-Apple Key then 8 to see if that would take care of the problem, but all I got were random Lighting looking red and blue lines across the screen. If anyone has any ideas how to fix this, I would be most grateful.

 

[nixgeek]

Where did you get those discs? The official 10.3 discs are black witha silver X across the label. If it was a solid gray color then those were meant to be shipped with a specific Mac (and it should say it on the disc itself). Only the official install discs work with all Macs.

The other thing to consider is that your G3 might need a firmware upgrade. Check this chart for more details regarding the firmware update for your G3 Mac.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86117

 

[tirmonster76]

The Discs are official, I bought a family pack at the mac store about a year ago. I downloaded the firmware update for the computer, and I will put it on a CD and let it run on the G3. Could the disks be bad, since the OS worked, but the install dics (only on this computer) have always been in Grayscale?