hello,
ive got a problem with a crt imac, i'm gonna try an explain whats happening with it so it might get a bit confusing, i just hope someone can help me.
righty, the computer was installed with macosx at the time when mac os9 was still coming with it. i'm pretty sure that it had been updated to 10.2.8.
apparently the last time it was working, someone had been bashing on the keyboard and doing all sorts of stuff with it and when the computer was turned off and on again a flashing folder came on with the finder icon and a question mark.
the last time i askedf how to fix this i was told to reset the PRAM but it didnt stop the same thing from happening.
the next thing i tried was to do a hardware test, this came up with no problems.
then i put the macosx install cd in. this started off an installation but when it got to the actual install part it wouldnt let me because there was a newer (or older: cant remeber) version of osx already on the computer.
then i put the os9 install cd in, this started up but had an image of os9 with a cd as the background wallpaper whihc ive never seen before.
this let me go to startup disk and i clicked on osx and it let me startup with osx and everythin looked to be workin fine (all original files and programs where there)
i restarted the computer just to make sure i wasnt just lucky an it still worked.
(i noticed that comp didnt make the usual sound when i turned the power on though?)
i then went to the startup disk and clicked on the os9 folder to see if i could statrup with that but when it restarted an icon of a floppy disk came up and nothing happened, so i had to put the os9 cd and go to start up disk etc, to get back to osx.
hopefully that wasnt too confusing. i was just wondering how i can get both os's to work as im pretty sure they change from osx to os9 to get different program's to work.
i tried using the repair tool on the os9 cd but this found nothign wrong also.
thank you to anyone that can help me
bye d byeee
ive got a problem with a crt imac, i'm gonna try an explain whats happening with it so it might get a bit confusing, i just hope someone can help me.
righty, the computer was installed with macosx at the time when mac os9 was still coming with it. i'm pretty sure that it had been updated to 10.2.8.
apparently the last time it was working, someone had been bashing on the keyboard and doing all sorts of stuff with it and when the computer was turned off and on again a flashing folder came on with the finder icon and a question mark.
the last time i askedf how to fix this i was told to reset the PRAM but it didnt stop the same thing from happening.
the next thing i tried was to do a hardware test, this came up with no problems.
then i put the macosx install cd in. this started off an installation but when it got to the actual install part it wouldnt let me because there was a newer (or older: cant remeber) version of osx already on the computer.
then i put the os9 install cd in, this started up but had an image of os9 with a cd as the background wallpaper whihc ive never seen before.
this let me go to startup disk and i clicked on osx and it let me startup with osx and everythin looked to be workin fine (all original files and programs where there)
i restarted the computer just to make sure i wasnt just lucky an it still worked.
(i noticed that comp didnt make the usual sound when i turned the power on though?)
i then went to the startup disk and clicked on the os9 folder to see if i could statrup with that but when it restarted an icon of a floppy disk came up and nothing happened, so i had to put the os9 cd and go to start up disk etc, to get back to osx.
hopefully that wasnt too confusing. i was just wondering how i can get both os's to work as im pretty sure they change from osx to os9 to get different program's to work.
i tried using the repair tool on the os9 cd but this found nothign wrong also.
thank you to anyone that can help me
bye d byeee
