At the beginning of the month I purchased a blue slot loader; 350 MHz iMac that had a serious looking screen problem. The image on the monitor screen had a distorted shape, not fully correctable via the geometry controls, was very green and bright enough to make some things not possible to see. The os was 9.1. I thought this might be PRAM corruption, and hoped it was only that. After a couple of weeks of fooling with, I was totally successful in bringing it back to normal. Along the way, the machine booted into 10.2.6 and there I was, faced with a University's log-in window for either administrator or guest. Guest is what I am and now cannot get the machine to start up in 9 or from a startup CD. When it was in 9 it allowed me to start up with DiskWarrior. So here I am, unable to get to preference panels or do much of anything. Great looking screen.
Does anyone know how to get around this, short of replacing the 16 GB drive?
I would just like the opportunity to erase the drive and start from scratch. If I could just restart in 9, I'd be able to make the machine useful. Thanks for any help, secret key depressions and/or incantations.
dan_A
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