Wilton H. Shaw wrote: > Hello, > I recently purchased a G3 mini-tower with OS 9.2. I added OS 9.1 and it > has been working fine. Today I decided to see if the computer would > recognize OS X. I put in the CD and clicked on it. The computer recognized > and proceeded to go into the installation process. Since I didn't really > want to install it, I turned off the computer and restarted it. Well the > screen went black and stayed black for about 20 seconds. When it finally lit > up, a series of words came across the top of the screen saying-"can't open, > can't open..." and then the icon appeared and the OS started up. However, > the CD drive no longer works. No disk I put in is recognized. > I zapped the pram and rebuilt the desk top but nothing works. What have > I done?
Confused the heck out of Open Firmware. Try taking out the PRAM battery overnight. The other thing you could try is checking the master/slave settings of the HDD and/or the CD. If they're the only drives on the their respective chains (in our G3 tower the CD was SCSI, so this didn't apply) I had to remove the Master jumper from the HDD before OSX would run, this sounds vaguely familiar. The changes were made when you booted into OSX...this is a very poor way of exiting a installer... -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- 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
