Since I guess you have no clue on what has been installed and how, I do suggest to boot with the OS X CD, erase and reinstall. If you don't want to reinstall try to boot off the OS X CD and run the hard disk utility.
Ben On Sep 19, 2008, at 7:43 PM, Phyllis Swanson wrote: > > I used the option key - got the old little mac in the middle of the > screen. Screen went black and it rebooted into OSX. Then same problem. > > Tried again with OS9 install disk. It is up now. So it looks like a > software problem. What should be my course of action to get OS X > working on this machine? > > phyllis swanson > http://home.earthlink.net/~psswanson > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Beniamino Cenci Goga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 9:20:14 AM > Subject: Re: problem wallstreet > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
