[applekid]

System Configuration:
- 233 MHz G3
- 512 MB RAM
- 40 GB HD 7200 rpm
Bondi Blue iMac.

Okay, so I upgraded my Bondi Blue's iMac hardware, as you can see. It's been suffering from the GLOD problem for a while on and off. Now it seems to have gotten horribly bad after the hardware upgrade (possibly because of the 7200 rpm HD). Anyways, before any problems occurred, I installed Panther and OS 9.2.2. Panther was running fine. But, whenever I boot up the computer, the CRT flickers (doing a resolution change, I believe) and obviously the screen turns off with the green light still on. I can boot into OS 9 just fine because I have no screen flickers then. But OS X is problematic. I was wondering if this is fixable. Because when I start-up Panther from the CD, it doesn't flicker even though it goes through a similar boot up sequence. Perhaps there is a workaround?

(I had originally posted this question in the old GLOD thread that has over 6,000 views, but I guess it got ignored)

BTW, what kind of CRT do I have to buy if I want to use an external monitor with my iMac? I'm not willing to pay up $300 for a repair (that may not be a permanent fix) on a machine I invested about $300 already for the above upgrades.

Thanks.

[The Placid Casual]

I hate to say it, but OS X 10.3 may be just a bridge too far for the original iMac... Why not keep it as a decent OS 9 machine or go back to 10.2?

I used to use my Bondi to do Quark and Photoshop stuff back in the day, and it did really well, it must be great in OS 9 with all your upgrades, however for OS X 10.3, I can't really see it operating anywhere near acceptably on anything under a 400mhz G3, or preferably a G4.

I run OS X 10.3 on my G3 450 iBook, but it can be a frustrating experience.

[Eriamjh]

I have panther running on a 233 iMac and it runs fine. It's not as fast as everyone was saying when panther was new, but it runs.

It is on a 7.5GB partition of a 30GB drive. No problems, just slow. (288 MB ram).

[applekid]

Does your monitor flicker during the boot-up sequence with the Apple logo on the gray background? If I can somehow bypass that, I'll be fine. Panther runs perfectly fine for my needs (e-mail, word processing, school work, etc.) on that Bondi Blue iMac when it was working.

I'm still looking into getting an external monitor, but what would I require adapter-wise and monitor connector type?

[CIA]

I'm running 10.3.3 on a Rev A 233 iMac, upgraded with only 256MB of ram. Machine is fine for general use. Moniter died, so I got a old-school mac to VGA video adaptor and hooked up an external Sony 21" moniter. Snagged a CD-RW from a slim firewire case and now have an internal burner.

[applekid]

That's the reply I was looking for! Nice. Thank you! Any particular recommendation of brand for a Mac to VGA adapter?