PowerMac BW won't boot after resetting PRAM

[link92]

After resetting PRAM, my PowerMac G3 Blue and White wil not boot, it just displays a circle with a diagonal line through it instead of the Apple logo. Any ideas?

Specs:
PowerMac G3 350MHz Blue and White upgraded to 600MHz G4
512MB RAM
ATI RAGE 128
DVD-RW
120GB HD

 

[Eniregnat]

It may be dead. Try booting from the restore CD. See what happens.
It may not be detecting the drive, but that should be the frowny face or a questionmark. Check connections, and hopefully it isn't dead.

 

[840quadra]

Try booting from CD like the previous person stated.

If the circle with the line through it looks like a folder or disk, it cannot find the boot partition or disk. Are you booting into OS9 or a version of OS X ? If this is OS9 some G4 upgrades require special extensions as well.

 

[link92]

10.3, and CDs have the same effect.

 

[840quadra]

10.3, and CDs have the same effect.

hmm,
do you happen to have your G3 processor still? I would try booting with that installed as a test. Are you sure you didn't delete anything prior to these problems?

Move or change any files on your system?

 

[link92]

hmm,
do you happen to have your G3 processor still? I would try booting with that installed as a test. Are you sure you didn't delete anything prior to these problems?

Move or change any files on your system?

Bought it second hand, don't have the G3. The only thing I did before it was run Software Update, and got all the iWork/iLife '05 updates and repair permissions. All it repaired were some colorsync folders.

 

[link92]

Finally had time to try my (now arrived) Tiger DVD, it works! Yeeehawww!!!