On Aug 22, 2004, at 11:02 AM, Jim Dynes wrote:
On 22/8/04 2:49 pm, "Jim Dynes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
If you've replaced the hard disk and it sounds as if its booting, then you
must have had a display when installing the OS. Did you install OSX, and if
you did, did you update the firmware first? It should be at 4.19f. If not,
installing OSX with old firmware can cause poor video, sometimes no video.
This can be fixed by hooking up an external monitor to the iMac (you will
then get a display), and then installing the firmware update. To do this you
must have 9.1, 9.2.1 or 9.2.2 installed and running on the hard disk.
Jim
What Steve said makes sense. Your replacement hard drive does not contain the firmware update. That takes place on a chip in the computer. You should start up in 9.x by holding down the Option key at startup. See if it boots.
dan_A
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