CortinaChris
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G3 Not Booting, File Logo with Flaching Question Mark!
I have been given a G3 (and as you will soon discover) know nothing about them.
It has no software with it and (here is the bad bit) doesn't boot up.
When it starts up, I get a folder with a flashing question mark in it!
Any help would be gratefully received, would love to get it going!
Oh, and just to make things worse, I was told the CD drive may be broken, do PC ones work in Mac's?
Any Help at all will be greatfully received!
Sorry to be a complete fool.
Many MANY thanks,
Chris Tilley
(sorry about the lack of points for this, it is all I hve)
It has no software with it and (here is the bad bit) doesn't boot up.
When it starts up, I get a folder with a flashing question mark in it!
Any help would be gratefully received, would love to get it going!
Oh, and just to make things worse, I was told the CD drive may be broken, do PC ones work in Mac's?
Any Help at all will be greatfully received!
Sorry to be a complete fool.
Many MANY thanks,
Chris Tilley
(sorry about the lack of points for this, it is all I hve)
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I almost forgot my now-standard opening line:
"weed is right." :D
where was I....
You may have figured this out already, but it's probably worth your while to get your hands on a bootable OS9 disk, before getting a new CD drive - as you aren't positive yours is broken. Follow weed's advise, and you will either find out that it works, or that SOMETHING is broken!
If you have any friends with a Mac, they will probably have one of these blue CDs you need, even if they forgot they had it. Borrow one for this test, and then once you know how you stand hardware wise, you can go buy your own copy.