Sorry if this is a repeat message to some of you, but I never saw it post after I sent it. I am still in need of suggestions.
I am currently running Leopard on my eMac, and I have been told to run hardware checkup from the original startup disk. I have been experiencing a variety of nagging irritations with regard to video playback of Youtube files recently. Thinking it was Flash, I switched to HTML5 but the recent stuttering still persists. Cable company claims to be giving me a higher speed than my Broadband Reports tests show and that may indeed be the problem, but you can't fight city hall! Their techs say their test is correct, I am receiving over 8 meg down and since that should be able to take anything Youtube could send they point the finger at my graphics card and that is where the hardware test comes in. When I inserted my original Panther disk, restarted, and depressed the option key, eventually what looked like a boot loader appeared. It showed me several locations of bootable files on various drives. --- I have an old Tiger on the internal 80Gig, the current Leopard on an external 250Gig firewire, and now Panther and hardware checkup icons from the cd in my drive bay. They show up in a line on an otherwise basically grey blank screen. At this point I can find no way to indicate which of these devices I wish to select. I have tried the arrow keys, clicking the mouse which has turned into a clock face rather than the usual arrow, pushed the tab key, and I have also tried including the option key and most other keys and nothing seems to allow a selection. The big indicating arrow under you selection never appears. Is the fact that the mouse arrow is a clock face telling me the system is locked in a loop and not ready to offer me a selection choice? I have had it grind with the watch for over 10 minutes without ever returning to the arrow. (I can't believe it should take that long to settle down.) Should I take it that since I think there might be a hardware problem with my eMac, that this difficulty confirms that there is a mechanical problem? Or am I missing something and it is user error causing the difficulty? Ideas would be appreciated. Don Wakefield DTPetc! (DeskTop Productions et cetera!) Ballwin, Missouri, USA -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, 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 [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
