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MikeCarenter

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This is one of the really old IMacs a 400 MHz I thought would be good for the kids to do home work on.

What happened to it was it was running OS9 fine then someone had the bright idea to install osx on it. It never installed it might have died during a firmware update process. Now it just starts makes the startup sound the monitor never flickers and after 30 seconds the green light on the front goes off.

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Mike
mikec@lawtonprinting.com
 
MikeCarenter said:
This is one of the really old IMacs a 400 MHz I thought would be good for the kids to do home work on.

What happened to it was it was running OS9 fine then someone had the bright idea to install osx on it. It never installed it might have died during a firmware update process. Now it just starts makes the startup sound the monitor never flickers and after 30 seconds the green light on the front goes off.

Help

Mike
mikec@lawtonprinting.com
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The problem might be that the firmware update process was not completed. Continue from step #3 in these instructions:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75130

If that doesn't do the trick, try resetting the parameter RAM by holding command+alt+p+r on startup until you hear the startup chime again.

OS X should run fine on that thing.
 
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