On 26/11/2007, at 2:51 PM, Paul Weaver wrote:
My teenage daughter's G3 iMac running OSX 10.3.9 is showing an
unhappy face
and won't start up. Ran Disk Warrior but a fix was not obtained, nor
did
zapping the PRAM work.
I suspect my daughter may have tinkered, but she won't admit it. Argh!
Are there any other suggestions, or can someone lend me a system
installer
CD please to try to get the machine running again?
There seems to be a little inconsistency here. If the computer is
showing a "Sad Mac" at startup then it seems it is trying to boot into
Mac OS 9 or earlier, not Mac OS X. Have you tried holding down the
Option key at startup? This will show any alternative boot folders
available to you. The normal way for Mac OS X to display a bad boot
folder is to display a circle with a diagonal line through it in place
of the Apple logo at startup.
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Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services
FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer
Perth, Western Australia
Phone (618) 9332 6482 Fax (618) 9332 0913
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