Nicholas Holt wrote:
All attempts so far (install Tiger CD holding down C key and try to
access Disk Utility, PRAM reset, hold in power button with power
turned off for 30 secs etc) have failed and the same screen keeps
coming back with white text on a black b/g with request to restart the
machine.
Apple would no longer look at this age machine apparently so it would
have to be 3rd party but before I go down that route, it's probably
worth a request to see if anyone could lend the discs (iMac with
iSight G5). Postage would be paid both ways (I'm now in Wiltshire).
to clarify -- you have the original disks but it won't work (that would
make loaning you disks whose copies got damaged a bit pointless) or the
original disks are missing (eg you bought it secondhand) but you have Tiger?
That's one of the shortest-lived models of Apple (three months, maybe?).
You'll be lucky (you will, I have one:-)). You're positive it's G5 not
Intel?
when I can get to the post office, that's a very different question...
try restarting holding down S for single-user mode?
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