Welcome Mike! The flashing "?" in the disk at boot means that your Mac cannot find a valid system disc to boot from.
As you said, you initialized the hard disk, so there is nothing there for the computer to read. As you also stated, you are trying to boot from the CD, but it is giving you problems. It has been my experience that older Macs (including your PowerMac 7500) don't respond well to the holding the "C" key while booting. A more reliable way to get the CD to boot is to hold all of the following keys down at the same time (right after the system start "bong" finishes): command + option + shift + delete Hold these keys down until the machine starts to boot from the CD. Hopefully this will help you out a bit. I just want to add that the 7500 (and its sisters the 7300 & 7600) is probably one of, if not the best design that Apple ever made (the 8600/9600 being the other contender). You really couldn't have picked a better Mac to start with. Take care, Aaron Oechsli PS. If you are looking to increase your storage a bit, MacResQ has a 9.1gb 7200 RPM SCSI drive available for only $20. That is quite a deal, as I paid about $60 for mine a little over a year ago. Link is here: http://www.macresq.com/store/specials.php __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.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/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
