Re: End of my rope!

[Jonathan Newman]

Yah my machine did that too. I have a non apple monitor and it would 
come up, and then it would go back into standby mode. and the DVD-ROM 
would do some seeks, and the hard-drive too but then nothing. what it 
took was a clean disk. I'm not sure why. I believe it has to do with 
the security features of the eMac's restore disk. It all sucks. But 
needless to say you don't have this problem when you buy the standard 
install disks.

 - Jonathan
On Aug 11, 2004, at 7:23 PM, GDB-Dell-WinME wrote:
Jonathan Newman wrote:
I've got a B&W G3 450 OC'ed to 500. I've just tested my install discs 
from my eMac. What I've found is that in order to get the install 
disk to do anything you need to make sure the drive your going to 
install it to had nothing on it. It needs to be completely formatted. 
and then when you start the computer, the mac has nothing else to do 
but to load from the eMac's restore disk.

 - Jonathan
I'm curious as to how your machine acted when you tried to boot from 
the DVD prior to the method which eventually worked.  No matter how I 
tried, pressing "C" on a boot, selecting the DVD as the startup drive 
or whatever all resulted in the same thing.  The computer would 
restart with the chime and then I heard the monitor come up and that 
was about it.  The DVD activity light would flash now and then, but 
then nothing would happen.  If that is what yours did, why is this?  
Shouldn't you get some indication of what's going on?  An error 
message or something?  Guess I'm gonna try installing to a blank 
formatted HD then...

Just a message from Doug...

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