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Bronze Keyboard G3 Problems
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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To start, thank you for such a wonderful resource. I switched right after the October G4 revision and these forums have helped me learn a lot about my new machine.
I'm attempting to rescue a freind's G3 with a bronze keyboard (model M5343). The unit will boot, display an apple OS X screen and seemingly completely boot until the moment that menus pop up and will then hang on a blue blank screen, I can still use the mouse. I tried to boot from a Panther CD but it hangs with the message "Unable to find driver for this platform: "PowerBook1,1"
The owner says that the unit worked until he tried to do some kind of software update when this started to happen. I'm not sure what OS is installed on this machine.
Where do I go from here? I'm fluent in PC problems but mac is still somewhat foreign to me. Also, does someone have a list of mac startup commands ie: holding c to boot from a CD etc..?
THANK YOU for your help!
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Join Date: Jul 2003
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Hi,
Here are some startup commands from the OS 10.4x Tiger help menu:
Press X during startup Force Mac OS X startup
Press Option-Command-Shift-Delete during startup Bypass primary startup volume and seek a different startup volume (such as a CD or external disk)
Press C during startup Start up from a CD that has a system folder
Press N during startup Attempt to start up from a compatible network server (NetBoot)
Press T during startup Start up in FireWire Target Disk mode
Press Shift during startup start up in Safe Boot mode and temporarily disable login items and non-essential kernel extension files (Mac OS X 10.2 and later)
Press Command-V during startup Start up in Verbose mode.
Press Command-S during startup Start up in Single-User mode
Good luck,
Rich (G4 12 rev C but still got my Pismo)
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Thank you Rich!
I booted in safe mode and the same thing happens, right after the OS X progress bar screen closes I get nothing but a blue screen with a working mouse.
What can I do? What version of OS X should I try to boot from?
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Join Date: Jun 2002
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Please keep in mind the ambiguously selective general understandings we've all agreed upon...
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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Panther should boot it, shouldn't it? Didn't Panther support any Mac with built-in USB?
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I'm a bird. I am the 1% (of pets).
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Yeah, Panther should work...he doesn't know what OS is installed right now.
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Please keep in mind the ambiguously selective general understandings we've all agreed upon...
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On my old Beige G3 on early versions of Mac OS X, I had a series of problems relating to missing system files, namely a couple of .frameworks. Perhaps some file went bad or missing while upgrading. Best of luck!
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PROBLEM SOLVED!
I gave up on saving the existing OS a long time ago but couldn't get my Panther CD to boot properly. On a whim I tried the panther disc on my new 15" and it didn't work. ends up that the disc was damaged! I burned a new copy and things are working great.
Apple contimues to impress me, how did I live with windows for so long?
Thank you for all of your help!
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