I have a 1998 bondi blue iMac and I would like to put windows on it help

If you have any other questions or issues, feel free to report back here so we can all help you get it all sorted out.

Good Luck, you will be in for treat

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Here are some places where you can learn the basics of the Mac and Mac OS X, if you never used a Mac before.

Here is a site for introductory videos specifically for Mac OS X 10.3 Panther.

http://www.atomiclearning.com/macosxpanther

http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/MacOSX10.3_Welcome.pdf

Here is Apple's official Mac 101 basics video and text area.

This has been updated for more modern, up to date OS X versions, but many things will still apply and still be relevant, but not all. It will still help you get more acquainted with how Macs and OS X work.

http://www.apple.com/support/macbasics/

Once you have upgraded (or installed) OS 9.2.2, that is as far as it will go, without installing OS X.

OS X will be a separate installation.

"So I can just go to software up date and run the newest Apple that they use today?"

No, your 1998-vintage iMac can only go as far as Mac OS 10.3.x (Panther). Any newer version of the Mac OS (10.4.x ->) isn't supported on your iMac. Keep in mind that any OS X installation will need to be purchased. You need to buy a retail/universal installer version of Mac OS 10.3.x. After you've done that, you can download the latest incremental update for that Mac OS, which for Panther would be the Combined 10.3.9 Update.

Hi,

You have 9.2.2!!! Great!

There is no software update feature in OS 9. The version of OS 9 you have is the very last version.

You need to install OS X 10.3 Panther from disc, at this point.

BUT, you can't do this yet!

The only reason you need OS 9 is to download, install and run the iMac"s ROM chip firmware updater to update your iMac's ROM.

I'll try at locate this for you as the links I have no longer work.

In the meantime, if you have the iMac running on OS 9, we can check the firmware number to see if the ROM firmware has been updated by a previous user, already.

Follow these instructions at the top of this link and in the window that pops ups, under system profile look for something that says Boot Rom or Firmware and report the number here so we can tell you what to do next.

http://www.olemiss.edu/libarts/techinfo/tacit/macinfo.pdf

Here's the link for the iMac firmware download.

Read the instructions and follow them to run/install this firmware only if you need to do this.

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1263

Look around. You can probably find a Windows box for free. Windows XP is good enough. Most all Windows software runs on XP.

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I recall that this model did NOT have a fan, so you may be hearing the precursor to its hard drive dying...

I have a none working iMac G3 233 ( Rev A), the first iMac, sitting in my living room. I have it appart and it has a fan. It doesn't work. I assume it is the video board. These had a bad reputation.

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I suggest you try running the machine with OS 9. Come back for suggestins of what software you can get by with. Running Mac OS 10.3. May not be better. I do not know of a modern browser for it.

Mac OS 9

Classilla is a free, open source browser for Mac OS 9

classilla.org

Any web browsing experience is going to be slow. you best limit this machine to email & office. MS Office 98 creates a compatible version of .doc.

I used eudora for email. Shoudl work fine for pop mail. Standard hasn't changed.

The tray loading iMac requires the boot partition to be within 8gig. Since there are hidden partitions before the first visible partition, people recommend that you make the first visible partition 7.5 gig to 7.9gig. The machines support upto a 128gig Parallel ATA drive.

Running os 9, you can get by with what ever memory you have. It will run better with 64 to 128 meg.