Did you partition the new drive? The OS MUST reside entirely within the first 4 or 6 GB (I forget which) of physical disc space.
On 7/25/09 8:12 PM, "Aaron Parker" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I got a steal on an original Bondi Blue iMac G3 last week for $20 and > have been loving playing around with OS 9. It's been working > perfectly fine for the last week or so--no issues whatsoever. > > The 4GB hard drive was a little tight though, so I opted to throw an > extra 20GB drive in there this afternoon that I had lying around. The > install was a piece of cake. Unfortunately, I'm now having some very > odd video issues. > > After reassembling the computer, it fires up fine the first time. I > get the startup tone, normal video, and the computer boots up just > fine (I even got OS9 put back on after this initial boot). > Unfortunately, that's where the problems start. As soon as you shut > the machine down and restart, you then lose video until you manually > reset the PRAM and press the CUDA reset button on the mainboard. > > I've reproduced this exact scenario at least 3 times now and it works > the same way every time--reset the PRAM, reset the CUDA, machine > powers on normally, restart--no video. I'm still getting the startup > sound and it sounds as if the computer is booting up normally even > when I don't get video (lots of HD activity), it's just that I'm > getting a completely blank screen (with an amber light). > > Any ideas? Would a bad PRAM battery cause such issues? The > likelihood that it would just so happen to manifest itself after my > upgrade is suspect to me though. > > Thanks! > Aaron --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
