[G4] New to iMac

[Roger Harris]

The CD is NOT a SCSI drive. Try the CD drive by it's self first. After 
you get to booting on the CD to work, go for the HD. You will need to 
Zap the PRAM before trying to boot to the CD or the HD. ZAP= 
Opt+Cammand+P+R.......hold until you hear chim at least four times. Then 
hold the C key for a CD boot.

Test the PRAM battery before anything else. It is about the age that the 
PRAM battery can go bad.

Roger

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Kevin Willis wrote:

>     I just purchased a 500 Mhz iMac from a auction site.  I know this is 
> probably the wrong list to post to, but I have never dealt with an iMac, 
> so I haven't subscribed to their list.  I am hoping someone here has 
> some experience with them and is willing to enlighten me.
> 
>     The computer came with everything but a hard drive and is said to 
> work.  I have a new Western Digital 40 GB IDE HD that I put in it.  When 
> I installed it, I noticed the slot loading CD Drive didn't have a power 
> cable and it looked like a 50 pin SCSI cable plugged in to it.  The next 
> plug on the cable that attaches to the HD is IDE.  I have tried setting 
> the jumpers on the HD to Master Single, Master w/Slave, Slave, and Cable 
> Select.  I inserted a bootable OS 9 cd into it and started up with the 
> "C" key held down.  I can't seem to get it to boot though.  Is there a 
> secret to getting one of these things to work?
> 
> 
> Thanks--
> 
> Kevin
> 
> 
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