[ian8387]

I have a imac G3 400Mhz, 128mb, and it came with OS 9.x (cant remember specifically). I bought OSX 10.2.3 and loaded it, everything was fine, but then I installed a usb network adapter to connect to my wireless router (everything is compatible). It installed fine, and after the reboot, i noticed the configuration utility wasnt there, so i opened up internet explorer just to see it it worked, and a message popped up saying inorder to use explorer, i had to restart my computer and it would load from the os9 system resources or something similar to that. So, when i restarted, the startup screen for os9 pops up, with it won't actually load anything, and i cant get OSX back. Normally I would just load OSX from the install cd, but i lost it, and dont know what to do.

Thanks for any help you might have,
Ian

[Eriamjh]

Try booting OS9 with extensions off (hold the shift key). You may have a corrupted HD.

[ian8387]

I tried that and it still does nothing, any more sugestions?

[HouseSold]

My iMac G3 is in now for new logic board and PAV (power analog video) board because OSX was installed without first installing firmware 4.1.9.

Really hope this is NOT your scenario.

Read here for starters: http://www.macintouch.com/panfirmware.html#query
and
http://www.macfixitforums.com/php/sh...31&fpart=1
and
http://www.macfixitforums.com/php/sh...31&fpart=1



David

[Detrius]

Originally posted by HouseSold:
My iMac G3 is in now for new logic board and PAV (power analog video) board because OSX was installed without first installing firmware 4.1.9.

Really hope this is NOT your scenario.

Read here for starters: http://www.macintouch.com/panfirmware.html#query
and
http://www.macfixitforums.com/php/sh...31&fpart=1
and
http://www.macfixitforums.com/php/sh...31&fpart=1

David

You should *only* need a logic board. Your PAV board should be fine.

Also, that firmware issue has been around since 10.2.0. It's actually really old news, which is why up until macintouch posted the firmware stuff a week or so ago, it wasn't in the news. It's not new with Panther.

[Detrius]

Originally posted by ian8387:
I tried that and it still does nothing, any more sugestions?

Hold down the x key during startup to boot into OS X. Also, if you have a 9.1 or later install disk, boot from that and use the startup disk control panel to boot into OS X.

[ian8387]

ok, thanks, ill try that

[HouseSold]

Detrius,

The other odd occurrences were:

1) The cd/dvd rom no longer read any cd's either after the 'glitch'.
Apple tech said it needed the PAV board because of no video internally, although external monitor would display most of the time clearly and the built-in display was very blurry at the same time.
2) The keyboard power button no longer functioned while the front panel iMac power button continued to work fine.

We ultimately installed 4.1.9 in Firewire target mode; if that had failed we would have tried a USB memorydrive to install. (experienced frequent and random shutdowns so we were happy when it remained powered on long enough to install)

I also replaced the onboard battery and reset the PMU. The battery showed 3.25v before it was replaced and a new one was 3.65v.

Totally frustrating experience only because we only recently chose to update 9.2.2 on this machine to OSX and not before or probably we might have caught the press on the firmware issues.

Thanks for all your wisdom and suggestions.