wardsenatorfe92
Well-known member
Hi everyone,
As I've posted in the conquest thread... you guys know I had an Indigo iMac G3 which suffered from case problems. Well I pulled some strings and ended up with an original 233MHz iMac today! Just need some help getting it up and running (I also posted this on Macrumors seeking help but I figured I'd cross post here as well)
Everything worked initially, noted it was upgraded to 160MB RAM and had Panther installed. I decided I'd throw in a 80GB drive because it still had it's original (and noisy) 4GB drive. Upgrade went fine, no problems. It even booted to Tiger the first time after upgrading (which I was VERY surprised!).
The second time I went to boot the iMac, I noted that it did not want to start. It would hang on the gray Apple (no spinning wheel). Well this isn't a problem, because I was destined to install OS 9 on it anyway. I turn off the Mac, put in a 9.2.1 retail CD and I can't get the machine to boot from it. I tried holding down "C", Alt, in fact it wouldn't recognize any keyboard commands at all except for resetting the PRAM. I finally got it to boot Open Firmware by holding down the interrupt button. I tried getting it to boot from CD in there and it says:
"eject cd DISK-LABEL: read of block0 failed
can't OPEN: cd"
Lovely. I didn't test the drive before the upgrade so I have no idea if it worked or not, but I was told the machine was in complete working condition when I bought it. I also made sure the hard drive was set on Master and it was, so I have no idea what the problem is. It almost seems like the CD drive isn't getting power at all (disk not spinning when I pop it out).
Any suggestions?
ALSO, Part 2: When I plug in the iMac, for about 10 seconds or less it will make a whining noise while it's off. It seems to disappear when it's turned on, but it seems odd as well. After you turn the machine off (depending on how long its been on) it seems to go away in 10 seconds but sometimes it will last as long as a minute or more until the unit is unplugged. I assume this is a bad sign as well?
Thanks for all the help.
As I've posted in the conquest thread... you guys know I had an Indigo iMac G3 which suffered from case problems. Well I pulled some strings and ended up with an original 233MHz iMac today! Just need some help getting it up and running (I also posted this on Macrumors seeking help but I figured I'd cross post here as well)
Everything worked initially, noted it was upgraded to 160MB RAM and had Panther installed. I decided I'd throw in a 80GB drive because it still had it's original (and noisy) 4GB drive. Upgrade went fine, no problems. It even booted to Tiger the first time after upgrading (which I was VERY surprised!).
The second time I went to boot the iMac, I noted that it did not want to start. It would hang on the gray Apple (no spinning wheel). Well this isn't a problem, because I was destined to install OS 9 on it anyway. I turn off the Mac, put in a 9.2.1 retail CD and I can't get the machine to boot from it. I tried holding down "C", Alt, in fact it wouldn't recognize any keyboard commands at all except for resetting the PRAM. I finally got it to boot Open Firmware by holding down the interrupt button. I tried getting it to boot from CD in there and it says:
"eject cd DISK-LABEL: read of block0 failed
can't OPEN: cd"
Lovely. I didn't test the drive before the upgrade so I have no idea if it worked or not, but I was told the machine was in complete working condition when I bought it. I also made sure the hard drive was set on Master and it was, so I have no idea what the problem is. It almost seems like the CD drive isn't getting power at all (disk not spinning when I pop it out).
Any suggestions?
ALSO, Part 2: When I plug in the iMac, for about 10 seconds or less it will make a whining noise while it's off. It seems to disappear when it's turned on, but it seems odd as well. After you turn the machine off (depending on how long its been on) it seems to go away in 10 seconds but sometimes it will last as long as a minute or more until the unit is unplugged. I assume this is a bad sign as well?
Thanks for all the help.