On Jul 10, 2009, at 5:11 PM, Nick Burman wrote:
> I tried wiping the hard drive (from another machine, in an external > enclosure) but the thing still won't startup. Holding down the C key > gets me the happy mac icon, then it restarts. Then it loops restarting > endlessly. > > I tried reseting nvram (reset-nvram) and restarting with Cmd Opt P-R. > but I get the same results. Yank the pram battery. Press the CUDA switch. Wait 15 minutes, re- insert PRAM battery, press cuda switch again, boot. That was the routine when I tried it on mine. It worked. I ended up sticking with 10.2 on it, never could get it to work with 10.3 or 10.4. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
