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So last Thursday a little more than two weeks after I ordered it my unopened copy of Mac OS 9 finally came in. The eBay seller said he had been sick, I forgave him and gave good feedback since it was unopened and retail as promised.

So, being 9.0 it needed updating. I had to step it through 9.1, then 9.2.1, then up to 9.2.2. 9.0 reminded me of why I hated Macs prior to OS X coming out, there were times that I didn't know if the machine was hung up or was just being slow, it was usually being extremely slow, but at 9.2.1 it actually started working great.

I found Firmware update 4.2.8, I had to update it to at least 9.1 to run the update, I waited to 9.2.2. The reason I'm writing this is the updater tells me to hit the shutdown button, which I do, then hold down the programmer button and turn it on, wait for the long tone then let go, which I do. It says it's then supposed to display a progress bar and after the bar my update is done. Unfortunately it makes a sound like it just got turned on again and it sits at blackness forever. Hitting the reset button does nothing. I have to pull the power cord, it makes the startup noise, goes to black, makes the startup noise again, boots then comes up to a You're doing it wrong! message. I'm rather certain I'm following directions. Any input for the long time Mac folks? My main reason for wanting the update was to see if I could make an nVidia card work, some success has been reported after this particular update.

--update

No progress, but I decided to run the OS 9 update utility, this firmware update was a part of that as well, but it didn't work any better from this source. I'm beginning to wonder if there's a write protect feature I don't know about.
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From:[info]two_pi_r
Date: June 25th, 2008 02:49 am (UTC)
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I remember applying that firmware update. Try hitting cmd-option-o-f right after hitting the power button, and seeing if you get anything more detailed.
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From:[info]pecosdave
Date: June 25th, 2008 03:05 am (UTC)
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I started the OS X Tiger install before I read this, I'll do it afterwards, at least the old Macs allow you to dual boot.
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From:[info]pecosdave
Date: June 25th, 2008 06:30 am (UTC)
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Maybe they don't. I can't seem to bring up 9 anymore, and I did look at the hot key pages, I've tried holding Option on boot which should do it, but only Tiger is available.
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