Well, I killed my new (used) mac in record time. Only took me a day.
My new G5 has OSX 10.3.8 loaded, I downloaded a combo update from the mac site (10.3.9) and proceeded to upgrade my OS.
Got an error message toward the end but didn't think too much of it. Soon found problems on my next startup.
Machine will only advance to the startup window displaying the message "Waiting for Printing services" and then drops into the command prompt window.
I ran the disk check utility. it found a problem with orphaned something and said it fixed it, ran disk check two more times to be sure, rebooted but still the same.
Got a copy of 10.5.4 figuring I would just rebuild the OS but the machine refuses to see this on startup even when holding down the "C" key.
Pulled the CD drive out to see if there was anything obvious wrong but nothing apparent, was a little dusty on the outside so I removed the cover and peered inside, gave it a light compressed air clean (from my lungs) and put the cover back on.
Still no boot from CD.
Please give me some pointers if possible!!
Thanks
My new G5 has OSX 10.3.8 loaded, I downloaded a combo update from the mac site (10.3.9) and proceeded to upgrade my OS.
Got an error message toward the end but didn't think too much of it. Soon found problems on my next startup.
Machine will only advance to the startup window displaying the message "Waiting for Printing services" and then drops into the command prompt window.
I ran the disk check utility. it found a problem with orphaned something and said it fixed it, ran disk check two more times to be sure, rebooted but still the same.
Got a copy of 10.5.4 figuring I would just rebuild the OS but the machine refuses to see this on startup even when holding down the "C" key.
Pulled the CD drive out to see if there was anything obvious wrong but nothing apparent, was a little dusty on the outside so I removed the cover and peered inside, gave it a light compressed air clean (from my lungs) and put the cover back on.
Still no boot from CD.
Please give me some pointers if possible!!
Thanks