Frozen iMac

[johnnyz]

Last night I was attempting to upnudge a 333Mhz iMac to OS 10.2 from 9.2.2.
Everything was going okay, and the actual "loading" process started to take place.

Time was tight, so I went home while the CD loaded the info onto my trusty iMac. I figured I'd eave it over night while the OS seeped itself onto the iMac.

A day later and the thing won't start!
Gray screen as it *starts* to load, either alone or via CD. Right after the staticky sound subsides from the secreen, the little apple image comes up and the whole thing just freezes, with a picture of broken static about halfway up the screen.

Multiple tries at restarting (with and without the CD) prove ineffective.

Any tips?

 

[ra3ndy]

Looks like you need a firmware update. Click here to find your approriate upgrade (there's one listed for iMac 333mhz)

The other possibility is that your logic board has decided that you've pushed it too far, and the poor dear has turned on you. That, or it's been waiting to go out on you, and just found a coincidentally convenient point. If that's the case.... time for pasture, little iMac.

P.S. I will always try to refer to upgrading a system as "upnudging" from now on. That is perhaps the coolest word invented this millenium.