Killed iMac G5 -- Revival Possible ?

HA! HA! 😊 Been a long time since I've seen a Basic screen, looked again and hit power button, the screen noted same. lol then came the flash. "Type 'reboot'" Voila!

Still won't recognize password.

Is there a way on the black screen (I'm sure there's a better name or is it still Basic?) to identify the administrator of the HD? My son may have changed it when he FW the eMac's files.

(Aside) This new Forum configuration is really confusing, seems to jumble up the posts so the continuity is totally messed up. Am I just not getting it or are they due for a rethink?

I'll do the T boot again and try to find the .applesetupdone file. As I recall, there are several files that contain a /var file, which one am I looking in?

Downloaded EasyFind, still no -- applesetupdone --, still not accepting password.

Possible solution! (?) When I went to turn on my iMac Intel, it wouldn't accept the password. (PANIC!! Thought I'd passed a bug to this machine.) Discovered that I'd lost wireless connection. Is it possible the G5 is not connecting to the internet?

Couldn't access Intel with password so shut down, disconnected power then rebooted with Installation Disk in safe mode and checked password, it was correct! Shut machine down and in process was notified "connection lost". Reconnected wireless and rebooted Intel Mac, accepted password and powered up. Tried G5 again, still no acceptance of PW.

Will reboot in FW and look around for possible clues. Waiting for your instructions.

Yes it does. It shows the reload circular arrow, MacIntosh HD and fwd arrow.

Message was edited by: Goldenbill Hit the fwd arrow, loads to Mac OS X (four minutes), still requests but rejects password.

The G5 is a rebuilt and I've only had it for three months, it was supposed to be wiped clean and came with 10.4.2 (I believe) I updated it to 10.4.11 but never activated the firmware password. So I don't believe it has been activated.

Message was edited by: Goldenbill: They didn't send me a bootable disc/disk, I bought it on E-Bay.

Message was edited by: Goldenbill: If I bought a 10.4.11 software package would that fix it? I have all the files on my eMac and now on my Intel Mac

I've been looking around for a 10.4.xx boot disc without success. If you can lead me to one it would be appreciated.

However, I still want to persue this problem. I am going to do some research on the /var file. I don't really know what I'm looking for but have found another avenue of search "Finder-Find"(Cmd+f in Finder) which gives a more indepth search option. I'm going to research /var, and then see if the finder-find will be of some help. I hope you can stay with me here.