Hi tap
The logo on the screen means that the mac can not find a boot system
on the disc. also i think that BL is right in the fact that 10.2.8
needs 10.2.1 first and 9.2.1 needs 9.1 or 9.2 first as they are both
upgrades to the system not installs of a complete system.
As for the broken imac! if the imac is 350 or above i believe the ram
cards from this are compatible with the DA. PC 100 168. pin sd ram.
I would try the remove every thing and then just reset the system
with the cuda (Underneath the pci slots), install just the top ram
slot with the largest stick of ram you have and disconnect the cd
drive from the chain just leave the hdd from the imac on as a master
single drive. after you get it to boot from that drive then switch
off and connect the cd up. boot from the hdd again and the depending
on the system you have loaded on the imac drive try the upgrade cd's
you have once that is installed then you can try with the adding ram
sticks one at a time.
vicki
On Jan 21, 2006, at 9:27 PM, tap wrote:
Ok, I'll to check memory and possibly CUDA reset and report back. I
don't think I can get my hands on a copy of the AHT disk for this
model right away, unfortunately. There's just one more thing that I
thought of. Since my iMac broke, I've been using the external HD
(which was my everyday boot disk) with a PC, accessing some of my
documents with MacDrive. This is the drive I tried to boot the new
machine first before I tried the two install CDs. I wouldn't have
thought it'd be a problem, but is there any way this drive could've
harmed the new machine at all, having previously been consorting
with Windows? (When I tried to boot with it, it did the usual
thing, but after the screen with the grey Apple and twirling
"working" pattern below, a Large circle-with-a-slash logo came up
in place of the apple.)
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