check ebay for the old airport cards (11 mbps)(NOT airport
extreme)... works perfectly you need an airport card adapter too...
be sure to check if you're imac will accept airport some early models
don't have airport capabilities...
Op 6-okt-05, om 02:24 heeft Adam Vaughn het volgende geschreven:
Here's an update to this point:
I attempted to boot the unit from a firewire hard drive which
contained a working OS 9.2.2 system folder, and the required
firmware update, but it refused; even though using the Option key
had the external drive showing up with a system folder, selecting
it would result in the drive just sitting there doing nothing, and
the standard flashing '?' icon. I managed to get the iMac booted
using a series of disks containing OS 9. The first time I got it
booted, I saw that the internal hard drive was showing up, but it
was only registering as an 800MB drive (and 99% full, at that!).
The first CD I got it to boot up from was a Norton Utilities disk,
which employed OS 9.0.4. I tried running Disk Doctor on what showed
up as the internal HD, but it kept freezing on the Media Test. In
addition, the firewire drive didn't show up on the desktop while
booted into this OS. I then tried a iBook G3 boot disk, which had
9.1 on it. The firewire drive showed up, but trying to run the
firmware update from it resulted in an error that the OS had to be
on a local disk. I went through the shutdown and programmer's
button press thing anyway, and even though the update didn't run,
the computer then proceeded to boot from it's internal hard drive!
The internal drive (which was now showing a capacity closer to it's
true size) had 9.0.4 on it, and immediately started the iMac
demonstration program when everything loaded (weird, no?). I copied
the firmware update to it from the firewire drive while booted from
the 9.1 CD, but an error message came up saying that the updater
required 9.1.
I then decided to format the internal drive, and install 9.1 onto
it in order to do the firmware update. When trying to copy some of
the applications from the old drive to the Firewire drive, the old
drive started making funny noises, and I had to abort the copying.
Even so, formatting the old drive and installing 9.1 went through
swimmingly. I copied over the firmware updater, ran it while booted
from the internal hard drive, got through it, but the screen was
still blank. I then shut the system down, unplugged the external
monitor, turned the iMac on, and voila, the internal screen came to
life! I then took the computer to a local store, and replaced the
internal HD (which failed a test performed at the store) with a
20GB drive.
That is the point I am at at this time. A bit later on, I'm going
to install OS 9.2.2 onto the drive, then I will install OS X.
Hopefully, the system will continue to run correctly for the near
future. A question: why do Airport cards which fit this model cost
so much? I'd like to give this computer wireless capabilities, but
paying $200+ for a Airport card/adapter for a computer which
originally cost me $10 is not what I'd like to do (for $300 more, I
could get a whole Mac mini!).
-Adam
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Well, I think I have it all but pegged. I hooked my 21" Hitachi
monitor to the
VGA output on the DV, and voila, video! The internal monitor, of
course, stays
blank. Starting from the HD alone causes the click-click-whine
noises and the
flashing '?' icon which goes with it. Starting from the OS 8.6 CD
I have, meant
for a PowerMac G4 (Yikes! version, IIRC), it starts to boot, but
then goes into
a System Bomb ("address error"). Booting into Open Firmware with
the monitor
attached, I get to see what happens when I type in the typical
commands
non-blind. reset-nvram goes through OK, but set-defaults gives me
this:
DEFAULT CATCH!, code=300 at %SRR0: ff80af1c %SRR1: 0000b030
then reset-all performs a couple of rapid 'fixes' (as far as I
tell, they come
and go fast) before resetting the machine, and working as it
usually does. The
RAM was bumped up in this machine (has one DIMM with chips on one
side, and one
DIMM with chips on both sides), so I'm assuming that someone tried
to install OS
X onto this machine without doing the prerequisite firmware
update. What can I
possibly do to rectify the situation? Once again, thanks in advance.
-Adam
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On Oct 3, 2005, at 6:46 PM, Adam Vaughn wrote:
A further question: might this possibly be due to OS X having been
installed on it without updating the firmware? I've heard about
that causing blank screen issues, but with the HD making noises,
I'm not sure.
IIRC, yes, this is a symptom of an OS X load on a non-firmware
upgraded imac. You can try putting an OS 9 HDD in to see if it boots
normally, I think.
- Dylan
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