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2003 / What have I done to my iMac?

« on: July 10, 2003, 08:03:20 PM »

Thank you Kelly, Chris, Paddy and Bart but, I'm afraid I've still got the problem.

If this problem hadn't started immediately after I messed up the firmware, I'd suspect that the CD had just packed up and needed replacing.

Kelly - I checked the extensions and they're all there.

Chris - How do I "boot into Open Firmware"?

Paddy - I've reset the PRAM but haven't managed to find my way in, so I've not hit the CUDA thingy yet. The iMac starts OK from the hard drive and works OK in every respect EXCEPT the CD.

Bart - I downloaded and installed the CD Firmware update without success.

Thank you all so far.

If you (or anyone) have any further suggestions I'd be grateful.

Helen

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2003 / What have I done to my iMac?

« on: July 10, 2003, 06:56:38 AM »

Hello Everyone,

I have bought an early iMac - PowerPC G3/233MHz - OS 8.1 - Enabler 462 vB1-1.0

I tried to install OS 9 from my partner's CD but the iMac told me that my 'firmware' was out of date and that I should use the firmware-updater on the OS CD.

The original OS CD (8.01) doesn't contain any file resembling 'firmware'.

We found a G3 Firmware Updater on the OS 9 disc but the iMac said something like "this will not work with this machine" (I can't remember exactly what it said).

So, I downloaded "iMac Firmware Update" versions 1.1 and 1.2 from the Apple site and installed them into the iMac.

Now the iMac won't recognise any software or audio CD.
I keep getting "This disc is unreadable by this Computer. Do you want to initialise the disc?"

Even starting up from a CD fails.

Does anyone have any idea what has gone wrong and how I can put things right?

Thank You.