Well I got given a second hand iMac to try and sort out for a family that I know who brought it second hand.
It came with no install disks and no admin password.
At first it logged on perfectly but like I said the guy they brought it from forgot the Admin password and hadn't used it for sometime so I looked on google and found a way to reset the pasword & account or what not.
So I used the single user mode to try and reset the admin password I tried a few different things but nothing seamed to work.
Then I was in the middle of something and the iMac just turned off randomly while in the user menu. When I tried to reboot it gets stuck on the blue screen with mouse but its different from every other blue screen that people get.
It loads the grey box apple screen then it goes into a blue screen and a apple grey box pops up for about 3 seconds with the Mac OS X screen then it goes into the blue screen like this :
I can move the mouse and the box around but thats as far as it gets.
It just goes to a darker screen after 10 seconds then the iMac goes to sleep.
Things ive tried:
- Opened the back resistors look fine
- Tried to use a downloaded Panther iso it recognises it then a no go logo appears
-Tried most commands in the single user
- Reset the pram ect.
its a PowerPc iMac G5 running Panther on 10.3.9 i think...
When I boot into the single user mode (cmd + S) this is what it says sorry about long text, i missing the top info copyright stuff btw.
Any help would be much appreciated
It came with no install disks and no admin password.
At first it logged on perfectly but like I said the guy they brought it from forgot the Admin password and hadn't used it for sometime so I looked on google and found a way to reset the pasword & account or what not.
So I used the single user mode to try and reset the admin password I tried a few different things but nothing seamed to work.
Then I was in the middle of something and the iMac just turned off randomly while in the user menu. When I tried to reboot it gets stuck on the blue screen with mouse but its different from every other blue screen that people get.
It loads the grey box apple screen then it goes into a blue screen and a apple grey box pops up for about 3 seconds with the Mac OS X screen then it goes into the blue screen like this :
I can move the mouse and the box around but thats as far as it gets.
It just goes to a darker screen after 10 seconds then the iMac goes to sleep.
Things ive tried:
- Opened the back resistors look fine
- Tried to use a downloaded Panther iso it recognises it then a no go logo appears
-Tried most commands in the single user
- Reset the pram ect.
its a PowerPc iMac G5 running Panther on 10.3.9 i think...
When I boot into the single user mode (cmd + S) this is what it says sorry about long text, i missing the top info copyright stuff btw.
Code:
using 5242 buffer headers and 4096 cluster IO buffer headers
AppleKauaiATA shasta-ata features enabled
DART enabled
MacRISC4CPU: publishing BootCPU
Local FireWire GUID = 0x1124ff :0xfe331162
Security auditing service present
BSM auditing present
From path: "/ht/pci@3/k2-sata-root/k2-sata@0/disk@0:3,/mach_kernel", Waiting on <dict ID="0"><key>IOPathMatch</key><string ID="1">IODeviceTree:/ht/pci@03/k2-sata-root/k2-sata@0/@0:3</string></dict>
AppleSMU -- shutdown cause = 3
Got boot device = IOService:/MacRISC4PE/ht@0,f20000000/AppleMacRiscHT/pci@3/IOPCI2PCIBridge/k2-sata-root@C/AppleK2SARoot/k2-sata@0/AppleK2SATA/ATADeviceNub@0/I0ATABlockStorageDriver/IOATABlockStorageDevice/IOBlockStorageDriver/ST380013AS Media/IOApplePartitionScheme/Untitled@03
BSD root: disk0s3, major 14, minor 2
jnl: replay_journal:from: 6627328 to: 2571264 (joffset 0x8601000)
Mar 14 13:40:22 GMT 2013
Singleuser boot -- fsck not done
Root device is mounted read-only
If you want to make modifications to files,
run 'sbin/fsck -y' first an then '/sbin/mount -uw /'
localhost:/ root #Any help would be much appreciated
