I've had an iMac for a while but have never used any OS older than mountain lion. I was given a broken G3 /350 indigo a couple of weeks ago. It just beeped when I first tried it, a bit of googling and some replacement ram and it was booting into OS 9. I looking into putting that latest possible OS on it and here's when things went wrong.. I booted from cd into a tiger install disc. Foolishly in the installation I used disk utility to format the drive for a completely fresh install. Unfortunately it then said the install wasn't possible because it needed newer firmware!? It seems to only way to update the firmware is via the OS? Obviously I can't do that now because the drive is formatted and I don't have a copy of OS 9! Any thoughts please?
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Need some G3 help!
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Going to need a copy of OS 9.
Check eBay... Just a matter of finding the best deal.
Also... please before you even think about booting it into OSX again, reinstall OS9 on the hard disk, and obtain a copy of the latest iMac G3 firmware, I beleive 4.1.9 but do your research. I beleive I make mention of the specific version on my blog somewhere but it's probably as easy to google it.
iMac's booted into Jaguar, Panther or Tiger with out of date firmware will invariably suffer video degradation or in some cases nothing will display on the screen. If left, it can cause permanant damage to video hardware. The problem is, by the time you get the message about the out of date firmware, the goose has already begun to cook. THis is a particularly bad state of affairs withthe 350mhz model as you cannot plug in an external monitor to install the new firmware which will usually rectify the issue, making it a very big PITA to fix.
iMac's booted into Jaguar, Panther or Tiger with out of date firmware will invariably suffer video degradation or in some cases nothing will display on the screen. If left, it can cause permanant damage to video hardware. The problem is, by the time you get the message about the out of date firmware, the goose has already begun to cook. THis is a particularly bad state of affairs withthe 350mhz model as you cannot plug in an external monitor to install the new firmware which will usually rectify the issue, making it a very big PITA to fix.
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