My suggestion, just to rule out hardware problems is to boot it up with OS 8 or 9, as it was the original OS. I recall it can be obtained by pressing the alt (option) key at startup. Try this first and let us know.
Ben On Sep 19, 2008, at 5:59 PM, Phyllis Swanson wrote: > > Hi - > I've been lurking for a little while, and now inherited a problem > Wallstreet. It has been upgraded from 233 to 466 Mhz, has 512 MB > ram; the last time I saw, the hard drive was partitioned into three > - for OSX, OS9, and data. > > The WS boots up fine - get the light grey screen with dark grey > apple and the clockwise running lines, but when it's time to change > the screen to finder it goes black. I hear the hard drive being > accessed, but nothing on the screen. > > Is there any other info that someone may need? > > phyllis swanson > http://home.earthlink.net/~psswanson > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's G-Books list, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
