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• iMac G3 tray charger stuck on the gray screen with question mark flashing folder

  I recently bought an iMac G3 (charger tray, 333 MHz, M4984) and when I try to boot from an OS installation disc 10.3, there will remain only blocked on the gray screen with folder flashing with the question mark. Not only it does not maintain the keys C or Option, but it will not start up any combination of keys, such as resetting the PRAM or the NVRAM. It just starts and stays on the screen with the flashing folder does nothing. It CAN read the keyboard, because I can turn on the computer with the keyboard, it just won't start to the top of any disk or any combination of keys. Any ideas on what could be the problem? I just replaced the hard drive, but it was the same before I replaced the hard drive as well. In addition, the iMac had apparently OS 8.6 installed on it when it came, and I think I need to move to OS 9 and do a firmware update before you install OS X (correct me if I'm wrong), but I can not do because the iMac does start not in general of any combination of keys. Thanks in advance, any help is appreciated.

  I recently bought an iMac G3 (charger tray, 333 MHz, M4984) and when I try to boot from an OS installation disc 10.3, there will remain only blocked on the gray screen with folder flashing with the question mark.

  Valid operation system not found.

  Not only it primer not leave now pressed the C or

  Place the cd in the drive.  power off.  Hold c power key on & while in the startup is underway.
  

  Keys options,

  key option is not supported on tray loading imac g3 333

  In addition, the iMac had apparently OS 8.6 installed on it when it came, and I think I need to move to OS 9 and do a firmware update before you install OS X (correct me if I'm wrong), but I can not do because the iMac does start not in general of any combination of keys. Thanks in advance, any help is appreciated.

  It took charger slot, but I think that optional for the bin.  I think that you can upgrade the firmware with 8.6 for trays.

  You may need to reset the PRAM and NVRAM and Mac's Open Firmware. Stop the Mac, then it turns on and before the screen lights up, quickly down the command, Option, P, and R keys, until the Mac rang twice more after the power to chime.

  Then, before that lights up the screen, hold down the command-Option-O-F until the Open Firmware appears. Then enter these lines, and then press return after each of them:

  Reset-nvram

  Configure default

  Reset-all

  "The reset-all command should restart your Mac. If so, you have successfully reset the Open Firmware settings. »

  http://support.Apple.com/kb/TS1812?viewlocale=en_US

  In the case of the...

  Try taking the battery for 10 minutes.  Put back in the battery.  Fingers crossed. Turn the machine back on.

  How do I eject the cd from the internal drive:

  eject the cd

  List of devices:

  devalias

  List of variables:

  printenv

• Features of the icon: why some icons contain green boxes with check marks?

  Original title: icon features

  Why some icons contain green boxes with check marks?  Ditto chiccory arrows & exclamation points?  Thank you.

  I assume you mean the file icons in Windows Explorer (my computer). The curved arrow indicates that the listed item is actually just a shortcut to a file or a program. The exclamation point and the green check mark will have something to do with the backup or archiving and depend on the settings you have made in Windows or backup software that you have installed.

  Because it's really a matter of Windows rather than specifically related to the word, I'll pass your question on a Windows forum.

• Characters such as apostrophes and the french quotes turn into boxes or question marks

  We recently upgraded from CF5 to CF7 and encounter a problem with the previously saved text more correctly displayed. Some characters (apparently, non-ASCII characters as curly apostrophes and quotation marks) are made in the form of boxes or question marks. We have recently upgraded to Oracle 10 g to Oracle 8i, but this problem appears to be independent of the database stored in the text. Some examples of code that illustrates the problem:
  
  < CFSET string1 = 'Department' >
  < CFSET string2 = "' Hey - it" > "
  
  < CFOUTPUT >
  string1 is #string1 #.
  < BR >
  string2 is #string2 #.
  < / CFOUTPUT >
  
  output looks like this:
  
  string1 is Department? s
  string2 is good? He
  
  These are rendered as boxes seen in Internet Explorer. (They appear as question marks when I copy and paste here.)
  
  The UDF Demoronize helps to * some * of the time, but it's past still with lots of text, in particular the text that gets pasted from a Web site into a form, and then saved in a database. Does anyone have a solution for this? It is breaking my apps and incredibly annoying. I would like to either replace the problematic characters by the time they are displayed, or the replacement when they are entered into the database first place (and go back and update all previously recorded data to replace problematic characters with plain text equivalents).
  
  Any suggestion is appreciated.

  Finally, I've isolated the problematic characters so I edited the UDF (available at cflib.org) DeMoronize by adding replacements following text at the bottom:

  text = Replace (text, chr (8208), "-", "ALL");
  text = Replace (text, chr (8209), "-", "ALL");
  text = Replace (text, chr (8210), "-", "ALL");
  text = Replace (text, chr (8211), "-", "ALL");
  text = Replace (text, chr (8212), "-", "ALL");
  text = Replace (text, chr (8213), "-", "ALL");
  text = Replace (text, chr (8214), "|", "ALL");
  text = Replace (text, chr (8215), "_", "ALL");
  text = Replace (text, chr (8216), "'", "ALL");
  text = Replace (text, chr (8217), "'", "ALL");
  text = Replace (text, chr (8218), ",", "ALL");
  text = Replace (text, chr (8219), "'", "ALL");
  text = Replace (text, chr (8220), "" "," ALL");
  text = Replace (text, chr (8221), "" "," ALL");
  text = Replace (text, chr (8222), "" "," ALL");
  text = Replace (text, chr (8223), "" "," ALL");
  text = Replace (text, chr (8226), "·", "ALL");
  text = Replace (text, chr (8227), ">", "ALL");
  text = Replace (text, chr (8228), ".", "ALL");
  text = Replace (text, chr (8229), "..", "ALL");
  text = Replace (text, chr (8230), "...", "ALL");
  text = Replace (text, chr (8231), "·", "ALL");

• After update Macbook, I had a folder with question mark on it

  I was forced to upgrade my macbook, and then I saw a folder with question mark in this regard.

  Start your Mac by holding down the button Option. Who should start the Boot Manager window where you can select the startup disk, and then click Restart.

  Startup Manager: how to select a boot volume

• How to fix the folder flashing with question mark on mac pro

  I have a problem with my mac pro.  When I press the power on button, the grey of the screen become a folder flashing with question mark appears and it does not start.  What should I do?  I don't have an os x on a cd so I can not ignore the system...

  See:

  If a flashing question mark appears when you start your Mac - Apple Support

  What model Mac? What OSX version was on the Mac?

  If you do not have a partition recovery or restoration of the Internet

  On OS X Recovery - Apple Support

  Then you install an installation DVD

• 2008 mac book pro screen flashing folder with question mark at startup

  2008 mac book pro screen flashing folder with question mark replaced boot hard drive and cable, continues to do the same.  any ideas to fix?

  Start your Mac by holding down the button Option. The should launch the window of Boot Manager where you can select the startup disk, and then click on restart.

  How to choose a boot on your Mac - Apple Support drive

• Flashing symbols on startup: apple logo, circle with slash, folder with question mark

  I tried to delete personal files on my MacBook (late 2008) to trade. During this process, the computer lost some function when deleting some documents; would not open apps but app could bounce constantly once selected and would not restart or shut down, had to manually hold the power button to turn off.

  When I turned it back after a few minutes a blue splash screen came as normal then symbol of Apple but then started blinking circle with slash to Apple to the circle and then to the folder with question mark. This continued for more than 45 minutes + and whenever I try to turn it off and restart it manually.

  I tried the following:

  -Trying to access the disk now command + R to start utility

  -Unplug the charger and take out the battery and put back in

  -holding SHIFT while symbols are flashing

  I can't check what OS I currently use but care I have the computer are as follows:

  -Computer is late 2008 model MacBook 13 inch

  -Model: A 1278 (EMC 2254)

  -Storage: 160 GB

  -RAM: 4 GB

  -Processor: Core 2 Duo 2.0 13

  Looking for help solving this problem. Thanks in advance.

  It would be very helpful to know what version of Mac OS X you are running

  On the screens, you see when you start your Mac - Apple Support

• Safari with question marks instead of the text

  Several Web sites in Safari 9.1 showing many points of question marks instead of the text. I just proposed by Apple and done nothing. I have Imac (late 2009) OS X El Capitan 10.11.4.

  Question marks instead of the text is an indication of a problem with fonts.

  Open the book fonts in your Applications folder.

  In the fonts start menu bar click book fonts > Preferences and then click: resolve duplicates by moving the files to the trash

  Quit and then restart Safari to test.

  If this does not help, back to the font book menu bar click file > restore to the Unicode Standard

  Quit and then restart Safari to test.

• When I use the Google search bar result is a page of random letters with question marks. Why? All other search engines are OK.

  The question didn't need to be expanded really.

  The screen I see is full of Black diamonds with points mark with numbers and random letters.

  First of all, try resetting Firefox. Refresh Firefox – reset settings and Add-ons. This simple step will eliminate the many problems in Firefox with just one click.

  A few other basic problems you can try things is the following:
  Run all Windows updates, install all required service packs, etc.

  Updating your graphics driver (Firefox uses the graphics card for rendering and an outdated graphics card driver can cause problems. Update your graphics drivers to use hardware acceleration and WebGL

  Update all of your plugins (Flash, Java, etc.): http://www.mozilla.org/plugincheck/.

  Download and install MalwareBytes Anti-Malware, run a full scan. http://www.malwarebytes.org/. This check allows that there is no virus on your computer, causing problems. You can uninstall this program after having cleaned the infections.

• Web sites only loaded with question marks.

  Some websites is charged only with the question marks, after that I updated to Firefox 4.0.1. I have attached a screenshot in the link below.

  http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/2462/wmarks.PNG

  Try to create a new profile. See profiles of boards - where Firefox stores your bookmarks, passwords and other data from the user and use the Profile Manager to create and delete profiles Firefox

• image folder of the file with question mark flashing on the screen

  I just bought a 2 month old 15 "macbook pro to an individual. I turned it on this morning and there is a picture of a small folder with a question mark in the Center, flashing on and outside. does anyone have a solution for this?

  Hi Hotrod45:

  Was this before start or is this the first time you the active since buying it?

  Check out this technical note. If flashing question mark appears when you start your Mac - Apple Support

  Kim

• Boxes of question mark symbol

  I'm on a MacbookPro Intel core i7 and 2.9 ghz 2012 middle and recently updated to OS X El Capitan. Since that time, I see these symbols of question mark in the Apple Store Windows pop up instead of phrases that I should see. Anyone encountered before? Thanks for the help.

  Please, back up all data before proceeding.

  Launch the application book fonts and validate all the fonts. You must select the fonts in order to validate them. See the built-in Help and support article for instructions. If the font book detects any problems, solve them.

  Start in safe mode rebuild the font caches. Restart as usual and test.

  Note: If FileVault is enabled in OS X 10.9 or an earlier version, or if a firmware password is defined, or the boot volume is a software RAID, you cannot start in safe mode. In this case, ask for instructions.

  If you still have problems, then in the font book menu bar, select

  The file restore Standard ▹ fonts...

  You will be prompted to confirm and then enter your administrator login password.

  Also note that if you disable or remove built-in fonts, for example by using a third-party font manager, the system may become unstable.

• MacBook Pro with question mark inside a folder after fix

  So I have Macbook Pro 2012 13 "with a 500GB SSD and 8 GB of ram. In may, my computer would not boot into the operating system without previous indications of possible failure. It would display an exclamation mark inside a folder at startup (later, I thought means that the hard drive is a problem). I took it to Apple-authorized repair Tech on my campus and they were unable to understand the source of the problem, but said it was possible that my OS has been corrupted. After some searching myself, I started to think it was the TRIM bug which has been a known issue with Samsung. Samsung has gladly replaced my hard drive. I have connected the new hard drive and I fell again on the same issue. I started to consider the water of the hard drive has been the question... So I replaced that and was able to start again! Fast forward to today, several months later, and I have the same problem. However, now I can start in the OS sometimes while sometimes it will show the flashing icon. If the hard drive ribbon cable I bought was of bad quality, or that would indicate a bigger, more serious problem? I'm confused as to how to proceed to solve this problem. Any help is greatly appreciated!

  Yes, I suspect a problem with the new ribbon cable or its connection to the logic board.

  This is the Office Mac Pro forum. I asked that your post be moved to the MacBook Pro laptop forum.

• showa MacBook with question mark folder

  My oldmacbookdoes not start instead, I get a folder with a questionmark

  This means that it cannot find a valid boot system.  Either the disc is damaged or broken.

  Get more information on your computer. Go to the Apple in the upper left corner of any window, then 'about this Mac '.  Note what he says about 'version' and that relevant here.  Now continue to "more information... "Copy and paste the information here, but omit the serial number and UUID (if present) material.