I just acquired an old Apple. and after turning it off, when I tried to re-boot, a pic of a floppy disc w/a flashing question mark is as far as it'll get. I can't go anywhere else and I don't know how to bypass this. I am Apple-ignorant.
It's a Power Macintosh 6500/250 Home Edition. 250 MHz, 256K Level 2 Cache, 32MB RAM, 2MB SGRAM vid memory, 4GB hard drive, floppy disc drive and 24x CD-ROM.
2006-11-18 13:33:02 · 3 answers · asked by sharnon007 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
It means it can' find an operating system. I hope you didn't pay more than $5 for that thing. Almost all of those have gone to dumpsterland years ago.
2006-11-18 13:46:40 · answer #1 · answered by Nomadd 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The symbol you see is telling you that the Mac cannot find a bootable partition on any drive in the devices. Basically, it may need a repair installation of the operating system, or if more serious, it may need a new hard disk.
2006-11-18 22:09:06 · answer #2 · answered by Dr. Annabelle 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hope it came with a system software CD-ROM or Disk Tools floppy disk, because you might need one.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=22078
2006-11-19 06:40:03 · answer #3 · answered by Elbert 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋