on 3/30/03 1:59 PM, Mick Ring at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A friend of mine thinks he ruined his parents grape iMac 266. He was > upgrading the OS from 8.6 to 9.1. He ran the firmware updater first. Upon > rebooting with the special key combination to update the firmware, the > progress bar went about 10% before stopping completely. He gave it a half > hour before rebooting. Now it gives him the blinking disk every time he > boots it. > > Needless to say, he feels horrible for telling them he was going to make > their computer work better and now it doesn't work at all. > > Has anybody here ever brought an iMac back from firmware hell? > > > -Mick sorry to hear abought this ive never done the firmware update. but did he try rebooting off the imac restore cd or a os 8.5 cd . then get the update to 8.6. i hope this does some good.
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