Imac behaving badly - and getting worse!
Hi,
I have an imac 333 slot loader (256MB/6GB - no firewire) which had 9.1 on it and running fine. I decided to take the plunge despite its age and put jaguar on it as well. when I put Jaguar on all seemed fine except when I booted back into 9. all of the sudden the mac would boot to the dektop and keep giving me "the application finder has a problem" messages like every 5 minutes or so which then quits the finder and immediately elaunches it. I tried fixing permissions in X but no dice. I did a Norton check on it which showed no errors. In exasperation I decided to format the HD and just go back to 9.
I put in the software restore disk and did a complete reformat of the HD.
Now things have gotten worse!
If I boot from the cd which came with the imac when it gets to the desktop I get the strange finder message and quitting problem. the desktop sits there but keeps quitting every 10 minutes now! I tried to reinstall 9 but it gets to about 90% and then hangs. I've tried this several times. The machine will not boot from an ibook, G4 sawtooth cd at all but curiously always boots fine from a Norton System works CD!
I've zapped the PRAM etc but cannot install system 9 onto the machine at all. Luckily, a colleague's wife has the same model so I borrowed her startup cd - same problem!! Since most of the software is classic I really need 9 as opposed to X.
does anyone have any ideas?
I have an imac 333 slot loader (256MB/6GB - no firewire) which had 9.1 on it and running fine. I decided to take the plunge despite its age and put jaguar on it as well. when I put Jaguar on all seemed fine except when I booted back into 9. all of the sudden the mac would boot to the dektop and keep giving me "the application finder has a problem" messages like every 5 minutes or so which then quits the finder and immediately elaunches it. I tried fixing permissions in X but no dice. I did a Norton check on it which showed no errors. In exasperation I decided to format the HD and just go back to 9.
I put in the software restore disk and did a complete reformat of the HD.
Now things have gotten worse!
If I boot from the cd which came with the imac when it gets to the desktop I get the strange finder message and quitting problem. the desktop sits there but keeps quitting every 10 minutes now! I tried to reinstall 9 but it gets to about 90% and then hangs. I've tried this several times. The machine will not boot from an ibook, G4 sawtooth cd at all but curiously always boots fine from a Norton System works CD!
I've zapped the PRAM etc but cannot install system 9 onto the machine at all. Luckily, a colleague's wife has the same model so I borrowed her startup cd - same problem!! Since most of the software is classic I really need 9 as opposed to X.
does anyone have any ideas?
Comments
Originally posted by \\/\\/ickes
This may not help much, but you do not have a 333mhz slot loading iMac. You have a 350mhz slot loading or 333mhz tray loading. One or the other... there never was a 333mhz slotloading model.
Duh, they use the Metric System over in the UK for measuring processor speed! So it's a 333 in the UK!
Originally posted by LoCash
Duh, they use the Metric System over in the UK for measuring processor speed! So it's a 333 in the UK!
...but wait, I use the metric system too! Damn I gotta go find out the -real- speed of my computers...
Also, did you do a low level format and zero? (if not... why not?)
thanx for the replies!
The hard drive is the original one that the imac came with. I used apple's disk utility and chose chose Format with a single partition.
does this help?
thanx
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58179
As I believe you needed to do this firmware update before installing OS X on the older iMacs. Do you recall if any firmware updates have ever been done to this iMac?
Originally posted by JimDreamworx
This technote may help:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58179
As I believe you needed to do this firmware update before installing OS X on the older iMacs. Do you recall if any firmware updates have ever been done to this iMac?
Thanx for the url. I have tried to download a firmware update but am confused. If I click on the link it takes me to software update on apple's web site but the update isn't mentioned. If I click on the imac link it takes me to countless docs but not a direct link. I can find imac firmware update 2.4 and imac update 1.2 but nor firmare update 1.1!
Would 2.4 be ok? (i guess I mean is it like the combo osX updates - only for firmware?)
thanx
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86117
SINCE YOU HAVE A SLOT LOADER USE THE FOLLOWING DOWNLOAD LINK
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75130
Remember you will need to be running 9 to get the update to do happy happy stuff.