i picked up a imac g3 yesterday it was running os 9 i tried to install osx and this is where the problem started, it would boot normaly but the screen was very dim and a purpley colour, i tried what apple suggest if you have noo screen (pram reset) and now i don't even get a chime
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[solved]imac g3 won't boot
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Its stretching my memory a bit but iirc some of these imacs needed a firmware update before installing OSX... or you will need to open it and connect another drive for a fix. 
Found this.
http://db.tidbits.com/article/06973 with links to apple docs.
Google is your friend before trying OSX on old machines, I happily ran a G3 imac with OSX server until a short while ago.
Found this.
http://db.tidbits.com/article/06973 with links to apple docs.
Google is your friend before trying OSX on old machines, I happily ran a G3 imac with OSX server until a short while ago.
Thx people i just got my imac working again, first i took a stick of ram out and it started chiming again, so i took out the hdd put it in my pmg4 installed some vnc software update the system, did the firmware update with vnc, and it now works
great another happy iMac G3 owner
they are just great computers that still do every day computing perfectly fine considering they are 10 years old
btw here is a nice little website dedicated to the iMac g3
http://imacworld.110mb.com/index.html
great another happy iMac G3 owner
they are just great computers that still do every day computing perfectly fine considering they are 10 years old
btw here is a nice little website dedicated to the iMac g3
http://imacworld.110mb.com/index.html
this is my second imac, they are brillent little macs