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Waking A Dead Jaguar

OSXFAQ Reader Tip By Johan Larsson

Here's a tip for getting Jaguar back up and running. It's not very sophisticated, bit it worked for me.

After installing iMovie3 and iPhoto2 on Saturday the fuses blew in our house. I changed fuses and restarted the house, which consequently rebooted my iMac DV 300 mhz. Unfortunatley it couldn't get further than the white screen on blue background (after which one usually sees a progress bar together with some text).

I tried all the tips I could find on your site as well as Apple's but nothing seemed to help.

I even fixed permissions a few times using the Disk Tool. Nothing. The bootup stuck in the same place every single tilme.

Solution: reboot from the Mac OS 9 CD (don't let it reinitialize the disk!!!) and restart the computer.

Maybe it was luck, but for anyone out there with a dead Jag it could be worth a try.

Enjoy :-)

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