I killed my iMac, help please!

[Christine1234]

I replaced the battery in my iMac g3 and took out the old memory card and put in 2 new memory cards, following instructions I got off the internet. When I turned it on, it beeped at me and its power light is flashing yellow and green. Help! How do I save it?

Edited to add: I put the old one back in along with one new one. It made the "dong" startup noise, but the screen is black.

Edtied again: I took both new cards out, and now it's happy again and back to OS 9.1. I wanted more memory to upgrade to OS X. What went wrong?

 

[jbushne1]

mmmm I am not sure if I can help... but I googled beep codes for your computer and it said that there is no RAM installed or detected. Are you sure that the RAM is compatible?

 

[Christine1234]

I told OWC exactly what computer it's for, and they said this is the right RAM.

 

[Christine1234]

Got it!!! Whew! I didn't have it pushed down far enough, and the little tabby thingies had to click all the way. Whew, I thought I'd killed it.

 

[Nameci]

Don't panic! Take a deep breath and think.

 

[Christine1234]

But I do panic so well!

I thought that now that it has more memory I'd be able to download Safari, but no matter what web page I try to go to, it tells me it's unable to locate the server at that page. I used the Netscape Communicator 4.7 on it before, and it was really crummy, but at least I was able to get to pages.

 

[Knoodles]

You need to update to Tiger 10.4.11. Then you will have Safari. No such animal for OS9.

 

[Christine1234]

OK, thanks.

 

[techno96]

Wait, seriously? but you could have some bad ram.