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Building a G3 B&W

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Guy Lanzone

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Aug 13, 2004, 4:42:22 PM8/13/04
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Hi All need some help I am building a G3 B&W I Have the case and power, the
logic board and G3 CPU, memory, video card, cd-rom drive. How do I load OS X
on the drive I get to the APPLE logo on screen and I hear the CD Rom
spinning and lights flashing then after awhile it all stops and I get the
CIRCLE with the LINE through it any help would be appreciated.

Alan Barker

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Aug 13, 2004, 5:58:23 PM8/13/04
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Guy Lanzone <glan...@alltel.net> wrote:

I'm no expert but are you holding down the C key when starting up tp
force booting from the CD Drive? You might care to post your query to
uk.comp.sys.mac where I'm sure you'll get more expert advise. Good luck.
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Chas

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Aug 17, 2004, 5:52:31 AM8/17/04
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You might need the firmware update. Also check out this:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106805

=:~)

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Guy Lanzone

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Aug 17, 2004, 4:15:56 PM8/17/04
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Thanks for the help!!!
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