Hey everyone, I've searched and couldn't find anything like this, so here it is...
I just bought a used imac with Tiger installed on it, and the person I bought it off started it for me and showed me that all was good and everything, it started fine, and so I brought it home and started it, and there's that flashing ? icon. I tried starting it a few more times and so I thought, okay, it must have been a mistake, I'll talk to the guy later... and the next day I randomly turned it on to test an outlet to see if the outlet worked, lol, and it came on and started up fine. So I went to the startup disc to specify that I wanted it to start with OS X, and restarted and it's back to the flashing ? again. I started it with my OS 9 install cd just so I could tell it to start with OS X, and it didn't have it listed to start up with... so I restarted and it works again. It's really weird, I'm not mac-stupid, but I really don't understand why it's doing this. It's like sometimes it has a system, sometimes it doesn't :s
And also, classic isn't working. It says I need to update Quicktime or something to start it, but how can I update it without starting it? So yea.. I can't start it with OS 9 either.
Can anyone tell me how to fix this?
I just bought a used imac with Tiger installed on it, and the person I bought it off started it for me and showed me that all was good and everything, it started fine, and so I brought it home and started it, and there's that flashing ? icon. I tried starting it a few more times and so I thought, okay, it must have been a mistake, I'll talk to the guy later... and the next day I randomly turned it on to test an outlet to see if the outlet worked, lol, and it came on and started up fine. So I went to the startup disc to specify that I wanted it to start with OS X, and restarted and it's back to the flashing ? again. I started it with my OS 9 install cd just so I could tell it to start with OS X, and it didn't have it listed to start up with... so I restarted and it works again. It's really weird, I'm not mac-stupid, but I really don't understand why it's doing this. It's like sometimes it has a system, sometimes it doesn't :s
And also, classic isn't working. It says I need to update Quicktime or something to start it, but how can I update it without starting it? So yea.. I can't start it with OS 9 either.
Can anyone tell me how to fix this?
