I installed Jaguar on my Daughters 500 MHz DV SE iMac this week....with no trouble at all. I updated the firmware using the 4.1.9 Firmware Update off the Jaguar CD.
I got a call from a buddy with OS 9.2 on a 350 MHz Slot-loading iMac. He tried to start up off the Jaguar CD last week without updating the firmware. Then he read horror stories about others who had done the same thing. Big mistake First his video went wonky, curved in on the sides, and then it went really dark, as in black screen. disassembly and replacement of battery and hard drive didn't help. CUDA & Pram Zap ditto. The only way to get a consistant Desktop was to put the iMac to sleep.......and then hit the Space Bar right away to wake it up. Removing all but one DIMM got us to a temporary desktop (still very dark, off to the left of the monitor, and running 640 X 480 at 117 MHz according to the Monitors CDEV) which allowed us to do a clean install of OS9.1 and delete the 9.2. Then we ran the Firmware update off the Jaguar CD again and it actually WORKED. Graph appeared showing progress and then message "Firmware successfully upgraded" appeared. Then the iMac returned to absolute 100% normal. M -- Never sell anything on eBay or the internet for more than you are asking for it. There has been a sudden recent rash of high-ticket items bought all over the US and Canada and with literally thousands of really high-quality counterfeit cashiers cheques drawn on American banks but sent from NIGERIA with an explanation that the cheque is to be deposited and the excess money sent to a third party as soon as the cheque clears. The full face value of the bogus cheque actually DOES appear in the depositor's account within a week (for most US bank accounts) but about a month later, when the bogus cheque finally arrives back from the bank it is drawn on, the full amount of the counterfeit cheque becomes the problem of the depositor. By that time the excess funds have been sent to West Africa and are irretrievably lost. Bank fraud is the third largest source of hard currency for NIGERIA and North American individuals are their prey of choice. -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
