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[snip]Okay down to the nitty-gritty! When I power the Mac on I get a nice sound and then a disk with a question mark which eventually turns into a disk with a happy face. By this time the Mac locks up and there is no mouse control, etc., just a happy Mac in the center of the screen. I suppose this little guy could have gone out with a smile on but that doesn't seem likely and I'm guessing that there is a problem with the OS.
Being a newb I have turned to the collective power of the i-net to get started and have discovered such things as "ctrl-command-start" to reboot and pressing C to boot from CD. Doing the latter nets nothing and the Mac goes through the question mark to happy face to lock up routine again.
Do you have an OS install CD or a Disk utility? You'll at least need the first and could use the second. I would think OS 8.6 would run decently on a 5400. When you do get an OS CD or disk utility try booting from it and see what happens. You might be able to use Disk First Aid on the install CD or the repair utility CD to fix the hard drive, though it's probably a good idea to zero all data on the hard drive and do a fresh install so you don't end up with the baggage of the previous owner.
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-RPM
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