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PowerMac BW won't boot after resetting PRAM

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link92

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After resetting PRAM, my PowerMac G3 Blue and White wil not boot, it just displays a circle with a diagonal line through it instead of the Apple logo. Any ideas?

Specs:
PowerMac G3 350MHz Blue and White upgraded to 600MHz G4
512MB RAM
ATI RAGE 128
DVD-RW
120GB HD
 
It may be dead. Try booting from the restore CD. See what happens.
It may not be detecting the drive, but that should be the frowny face or a questionmark. Check connections, and hopefully it isn't dead.
 
Try booting from CD like the previous person stated.

If the circle with the line through it looks like a folder or disk, it cannot find the boot partition or disk. Are you booting into OS9 or a version of OS X ? If this is OS9 some G4 upgrades require special extensions as well.
 
link92 said:
10.3, and CDs have the same effect.
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hmm,
do you happen to have your G3 processor still? I would try booting with that installed as a test. Are you sure you didn't delete anything prior to these problems?

Move or change any files on your system?
 
840quadra said:
hmm,
do you happen to have your G3 processor still? I would try booting with that installed as a test. Are you sure you didn't delete anything prior to these problems?

Move or change any files on your system?
Click to expand...
Bought it second hand, don't have the G3. The only thing I did before it was run Software Update, and got all the iWork/iLife '05 updates and repair permissions. All it repaired were some colorsync folders.
 
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