I got a second-hand imac from a relative.
It's a CRT unit model M5521 500MHz yr 2000.
I cannot get OS to load. All I get after a while is a little Mac logo
folder that changes into a "?" and back intermittently. It stays as
the mac logo for a while sometimes, then resumes changing back and
forth.
I have burned at least 3 versions of Mac OS to CD and tried booting up
onto them. I am using a PC keyboard, so I hold down ALT and I get the
boot device selection screen. However, NO choices appear. I hit the
refresh, and still no choices appear.
I've tried with Mac OS 9.22, 9.04 and one more I'm not sure the exact
version (downloaded CD images).
Now, this unit was given to the person who gave it to me, and he said
it had hardly been used.
One last thing I should mention is the very first time I booted it up,
I got some message about something not working that I should bypass
extensions by holding down ****FT. I have done this already but it has
not changed anything.
Any advice would be very much appreciated. My ideal preference would
be to get OS 10 on here. However, I read that you need to upgrade the
firmware prior to being able to install OS 10. The problem with that
is all the firmware update options from Apple are downloads that you
need to run ON the system, and since it is not running, I cannot do
that. I would need a CD-bootable update.
I have considered writing the Tiger image straight to the hard drive
because I have a utility to do that... but I want to wait for advice
from ppl who are more experienced than I. I am a guru with PCs, but
I'm a Mac dummy.
Please help! Thanks.
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