Did you try booting to the orginal recovery CD for that IMAC? Or rebooting to the X CD and format. Had one go wonky like that and it seemed to work. But yes DO the firmware updates ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wally Rodriguez" <wlists at fireworksmm.com> To: "Mac OS X Newbies" <X-Newbies at lists.themacintoshguy.com> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 4:53 PM Subject: Re: [X Newbies] Question re First Install of OS X on iMac > I MEAN THIS. > We lost an iMac and have never recovered it because the firmware was not > updated when we installed Jaguar and it did something (that I still don't > understand) to the graphics. > You can get the latest firmware from the apple site. > Mark Taintor wrote: --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.493 / Virus Database: 292 - Release Date: 6/25/2003