Have I kill the iMac?

I was given a grape iMac running OS9 I had hoped to used in my Special Ed classroom for students to use a couple of applications that will only run on OS10 on a Mac. (The school is all Windows :P )
I started the upgrade to 10.2 with the disk I had purchased for an iBook that has since passed away and been replaced by my MacBook Pro.
I did not read the the "read me" file as I was in a rush and didn't find out until the upgrade didn't finish that I needed to update the firm ware.
I have tried to reformate and reinstalling from original start up disks but I get a message it is unable to do the reformat.
Have I killed the computer? What are my options?
Please help as I have a couple of student who could REALLY use the the two applications I would like to use with them.

This problem occurs a slot loading iMac g3's.
The downlevel firmware may prevent information appearing on the display. You saying that you get stuff displayed on your display?
The display works for the first boot, but goes downhill after that.
I have tried to reformate and reinstalling from original start up disks but I get a message it is unable to do the reformat.
You mean the original cd boots up? You get into the mac os 9 setup stuff. You run whatever : disk first aid? : to format the hd. The formating fails. What is the exact message? You might be able to install the software without reformating.
Have I killed the computer? What are my options?
No. ( Your in luck you have a lot of windows boxen laying around, probably with all sorts of problems, you can grab one of the vga displays )
The easiest option is to attach a vga display to the slot loading iMac. There is a connector hidden under a plastic cover under the machine. The cover is on the bottom toward the power connector. The vga display works fine. If you do not mind the looks, you can leave as is. Install the firmware & the iMac display comes back to life.
Please help as I have a couple of student who could REALLY use the the two applications I would like to use with them.
You need to figure out the level of your firmware before installing 10.2 or greater. ( The PC name for firmware is BIOS. ) Installing 10.2 with a down level firmware will most likely make your iMac unusable and difficult to fix.
What is firmware?
The firmware software receives control when you poweron your machine. It does some hardware testing and some hardware configuration then passes control to your version of Mac OS. It reside on a PROM ( program read only memory ) chip on the logic board.
Figuring out what level of firmware you have?
Open Firmware, boot into Open Firmware.
Power on your iMac while holding down commandoption+of
The first output line contains the firmware level. Mine reads:
Apple PowerMac4,1 4.1.9f1 BootRom built on 09/14/01 at 13.18.04
Copyright 1994-2001 Apple Computer Inc.
On my machine, I have 4.1.9f1.
What firmware do you need?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86117
For a slot loading iMac, this article indicates that you need to be running 9.1 or later version of Mac OS Classic.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75130
"The iMac Firmware Update 4.1.9 will only run on iMac computers with lot-loading CD or DVD drives running Mac OS 9.1 or later from a local drive. If you are using Mac OS X you must boot from a local Mac OS 9.1 or later writeable partition (not a CD, or network disk) prior to following the update instructions."
You can download the Mac OS 9 updates from the Apple site.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1387?viewlocale=en_US

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I have a computer which is about two years old. It has a P4 M900M2 board and a Radeon GF 7300GT graphics card. Everything was fine until i decided to upgrade one of my DVD writers to blueray. It turned out that my graphics card wasn't man enough, so i have to upgrade. As the new card hadn't arrived i thought i'd increase my ram too. I had to remove the graphics card to remove a stick to see what i had. Upon replacing the ram stick and graphics card and then switching the computer back on i now just get a message on the monitor that it receives no signal. Assuming i hadn't put the card back in correctly, i took it out again and replaced it even though it looked to be fine. Still the same, no signal. I have tried plugging the monitor into the board with the graphics card removed but i get the same...No signal. So, have i killed the card and or the board as well? The new graphics card has arrived but it needs a posh monitor, which i knew about, so i can't plug my monitor into it to see if my old card has gone to the great component heaven in the sky. I could plug my tv into the new card but i haven't got a clue if i would get a display on it without selecting to use the tv first. Problem is, i can't see what is on the screen to select watching on the tv too. I have noticed that on the old card, two of the gold contact 'pins?' are a couple of mm shorter then the rest. With the card placed flat in front of you with the monitor sockets on the left, the 'pins' facing away from you with the big heatsink underneath, it is the extreme left hand 'pin' on top. It is 1mm shorter than the rest. If you turn the card over with the monitor sockets still on the left but now with the heatsink on top and the 'pins' facing towards you, the other short 'pin' is second in from the right.Again 1mm shorter than the rest. Is this as it should be or have i damaged it? If i have, have i also killed the mother board? Before touching the components, i held on the the unpainted copper water pipe below the radiator and had my hands touching the inside of the case when removing and replacing the card and ram, so i don't think i've staticked it to death, or have i? The new blueray burner was in the case but not connected up at the time. I think the board is a 2.8 dual core, but i'm not too sure. The serial number is 7710690034 if that helps and a P4 M900M2.
Thanks for any advice.
Merry christmas, or happy december if you don't do that sort of thing

Quote from: Stu on 27-December-09, 19:35:50
XFX is a hardware manufacturer, like MSI. Radeon is a product of ATI/AMD, a chipset manufacturer. Geforce is a product of Nvidia, also a chipset manufacturer.
Your card is a XFX Geforce 7300GT, with a Nvidia Geforce 7300 chipset.
Ha ha, after further investigation i realise what i've done. The old suspect(?) card is XFX, but my new one is an ATI Radeon HD 3600 256Mb PCI-E, hence the confusion. Or is it my age? Or the beer?
Anyway, now we have all had a gigle at the idiot who can't read, can anybody offer any advice re my original question? Catastrophic failure of operator, graphics card and or motherboard? What do you think? Any opinions? Having to use my old computer which is doing my head in.
Vista loads fine, and reads my modem installation disc so i can get online. But i can't find my vista serial number so can't register. I can find my code for XP, hard to lose as it's on the side of the case, but it won't read the drivers on modem disc so can't get online.
I sometimes wonder what wrongs i have been guilty of in a past life to get penalised with anything computer derived like i do in this one

Migration won't detect the iMAC..

Hello,
I see a lot of people are having problems once they have selected the files to migrate however I'm not even getting that far. Any ideas as to where am going wrong? I have a Dell Laptop (XP SP 3) and I want to move everything onto my spanking new MacbookPro (purchased today). The Migration assistant in the laptop (which doesn't open automatically after it's been downloaded BTW) opens and says it's waiting for the connection to the Mac, the progress scrolls but it finds nothing.. The Mac however sees the comp and gives me a code but the laptop doesn't ever get that far... They're on the same network (otherwise the mac wouldn't even see the comp right? and I've tried putting an ethernet connection between the two but still no progress)...
So, what should I do? (no technical jargon please :-))
Very frustrated..
Thank you!

Please read and follow the directions in Lion Setup Assistant tips. Because you have already started the iMac and used it I would recommend starting from "Second chance...."
Also I'm guessing you may be new to OS X. If that is correct I would recommend book marking and using:
Switch 101
Mac 101
Find Out How Video tutorials
Finally remember you have 90 days of free telephone support from Apple using the complimentary AppleCare service. You can locate the phone number in your manual or you can use the AppleCare Contact Info link.

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