The daughter was given the iMac by her father who lives elsewhere. No discs and communication is not good so unlikely to get hold of any discs. I happened to have a retail copy of Tiger with my powerbook but no joy. Kept getting request to restart even after restarting holding down the C key. It's a very thick (at least 2 inches) iMac with an iSight camera top centre, white plastic, 17" screen, definitely PPC (model after the angle poise one). Mother and daughter are at Glastonbury till Sunday night and I haven't got access to it till next week at earliest. Will certainly try anything including single user mode. Apparently iTunes is rooted into the centre of the OS so it was the worst bit of software to play around with during the s/update and a kernel panic was on the cards. But amazing that you may have the right set of discs. Will let you know. Nick On 24 Jun 2010, at 19:11, Jason Davies wrote:
> 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? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an 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/smug?hl=en-GB.
