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Can anyone help me update the firmware on my imac,
somethings got fuct up with it.
Ive lost the original install discs and when I try to install os x it wants the original disks which I DONT HAVE. Any idea what to do people?
otherwise ive gotta use pc all the time.

peace lo49
Wil

― wil, Monday, 2 September 2002 11:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Hang on, calm down, what do you mean shafted?

― Graham (graham), Monday, 2 September 2002 12:01 (twenty-two years ago)

somethings got fuct up with it

really? is this the high-tech version of that 'I caught hubby with frozen chicken' story?

― stevo (stevo), Monday, 2 September 2002 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry I don't know much about iMacs except that mine is temperamental.

My only suggestion is to try rebuilding the desktop by holding down the option and apple keys when you turn on the power.

― felicity (felicity), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

You could also try holding down Option, Apple, p, and r to "zap the pram" on restart... (and try not to hurt your hands doing it) keep it held down through THREE chimes at least and then let it boot normally.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

"Zap the pram"???

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 19:18 (twenty-two years ago)

(parameter-ram, it's kind of like resetting the bios settings)

― Graham (graham), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 19:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Tracer spent all weekend "zapping the pram", heh heh heh.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 19:25 (twenty-two years ago)

haha I work in computers and have a First in computer science and I know bugger all about them really.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)

there's a little battery in macs that holds a few settings, like date/time, mouse speed, and sometimes this can get corrupted and fuXor with yr whole system... "zapping the P-RAM" is sort of a last-ditch mystical incantation for the truly hopeless... at least it's better than "flipping the CUDA switch" (ahem)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 3 September 2002 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Or hold down the shift key to start without extenstions & see if it's a software conflict from one of them. Kicking it sometimes helps, too. Not that I've ever done that.

― lyra (lyra), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 00:58 (twenty-two years ago)

twenty-two years pass...

My uncle gave me an old
PC workstation. He hadn’t bothered to reset it so I had go into recovery mode and reinstall. Progress was being made, but then it showed me a nice looking blue screen, with the ominous message, UNRECOVERABLE ERROR

― calstars, Saturday, 22 February 2025 12:27 (three months ago)

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