14 Feb
2014
14 Feb
'14
5:47 p.m.
So, anyone here able to offer some Beige G3 tech guidance or advice?
I've just given my Beige G3 minitower away to a friend. That meant my
other Beige came out of the garage to be fixed up & sold. It's a
desktop with about 192MB of RAM (I think). No hard disk. Came off the
local Freecycle group.
It boots, bongs happily, and then will start to load MacOS 9 from CD
or MacOS 8.6 from a SCSI HD I have to hand. I get a Happy Mac, then it
just stops. Never gets past that point.
So it's not the disk -- both HD & CD worked fine in the minitower.
It's not the EIDE bus or cabling, as it affects a SCSI drive too. I've
zapped PRAM - no difference.
What could be wrong? I am mystified. :?(
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14 Feb
6:20 p.m.
There are a few revisions of the Beige G3 ROMS, some will not allow you to
use the secondary IDE port for a HD or might have issues with HD size. I
think macs of that vintage don't work with cable select as an option on
drives. There are different versions of the OS 8/9 CDs that only work with
specific models of macs and then there are the retail versions that work
with anything.
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6:37 p.m.
i know the revision b or c i think it is of the beige g3 boards are best since the b or c
had the on board dvd decoder and i think was better for hard drives but i know bout the
dvd thing though for sure
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From: TeoZ <teoz at neo.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: Problematic Apple PowerMac beige G3
There are a few revisions of the Beige G3 ROMS, some will not allow you to
use the secondary IDE port for a HD or might have issues with HD size. I
think macs of that vintage don't work with cable select as an option on
drives. There are different versions of the OS 8/9 CDs that only work with
specific models of macs and then there are the retail versions that work
with anything.
-----Original Message-----
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7:08 p.m.
On 14 February 2014 23:20, TeoZ <teoz at neo.rr.com> wrote:
There are a few revisions of the Beige G3 ROMS, some
will not allow you to
use the secondary IDE port for a HD or might have issues with HD size. I
think macs of that vintage don't work with cable select as an option on
drives. There are different versions of the OS 8/9 CDs that only work with
specific models of macs and then there are the retail versions that work
with anything.
[Nod] Yep, I know about most or all of that.
FTAOD:
I'm using a retail MacOS 9.0 CD.
It's the original Apple CD-ROM drive, primary on the 2nd controller,
with the Zip drive as secondary. I attached 2 different 8GB EIDE
disks, set as the master, as sole devices on the primary EIDE channel.
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7:36 p.m.
Try 1 stick of RAM or boot with a RAM checking program to see if that is the
problem.
-----Original Message-----
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To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Problematic Apple PowerMac beige G3
On 14 February 2014 23:20, TeoZ <teoz at neo.rr.com> wrote:
There are a few revisions of the Beige G3 ROMS, some
will not allow you to
use the secondary IDE port for a HD or might have issues with HD size. I
think macs of that vintage don't work with cable select as an option on
drives. There are different versions of the OS 8/9 CDs that only work with
specific models of macs and then there are the retail versions that work
with anything.
[Nod] Yep, I know about most or all of that.
FTAOD:
I'm using a retail MacOS 9.0 CD.
It's the original Apple CD-ROM drive, primary on the 2nd controller,
with the Zip drive as secondary. I attached 2 different 8GB EIDE
disks, set as the master, as sole devices on the primary EIDE channel.
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8:02 p.m.
On 15 February 2014 00:36, TeoZ <teoz at neo.rr.com> wrote:
Try 1 stick of RAM or boot with a RAM checking program
to see if that is the
problem.
I can't boot it at all - but I can certainly try a single DIMM. Good
idea - thanks!
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