Hi, I'm a PC guy but I have been given a Imac G5 1.9ghz/1Gb/160Gb by a customer who said its faulty and will cost over £600 to fix, well me being a techie have decided that I think it might be fixable, basicially when I turned it on I got a apple logo then a message to say there was a fault and to reboot. I have managed to get into a setup console by using Win95+Shift+CTRL+del on my windows KB (dont have a mac one), it starts to try and continue a setup and its asking for setup disk 2, well I dont have any disks either, so I managed to aquire some (10.3.xx) but it wont use the 2nd disk (could be wrong version to what its expecting), I've tried holding C and rebooting but it wont boot from CD. So I've replaced the HDD with another one thats not partitioned, now I get a apple folder icon changing to a ? then a grey no entry sign, any ideas ?? I have 10.3.xx and 10.5.xx CD's /DVD
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You've held down C and it still won't boot from the 10.5 DVD?
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Aye, x86 - no chance. You'd need a PowerPC disk - either the restore disk that came with or a retail Tiger one.
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Leopard will install on it just fine 
would a faulty logicboard stop osx installing but seem to be working ok? when the system boots it tries to continue another installation, if I choose installer log and try and save it I can access the HDD ok, so I'm not sure if it is faulty or not. In a PC if the motherboard was faulty it usually wont even power on.
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