Power Macintosh 7200 and a G3

#1 Sat, 20 Dec 2008 - 03:42

Well the 2 hate eachother. System 7.6 hangs at happy mac. With any sonnet driver.

So I am trying to install OS 8. It hangs at "checking macintosh hd."

Any help?

I would like to use system 7 with the G3.

#2 Sat, 20 Dec 2008 - 04:40

Contact Sonnet? :?:

#3 Sat, 20 Dec 2008 - 13:46

They are closed all weekend

#4 Sat, 20 Dec 2008 - 18:33

System 7 is compatible with the 7200 Sonnet card so try re-setting the CPU and RAM, if still no joy then try with the original CPU, if it still doesn't work then you could have a faulty card so call Sonnet on Monday.

#5 Sat, 20 Dec 2008 - 20:25

I installed OS 8.6 and the sonnet stuff, and it still doesnt work

Hangs at happy mac.

#6 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 - 05:26

Sounds like an extension conflict. Go into the extensions manager and turn off some third party extensions. Installing conflict catcher is the answer. I had to do that on a 9600.

#7 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 - 14:56

I tried that......only extension was the sonnet enabler. And still a crash. Isnt that impressive?

#8 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 - 15:24

Question: Is there a L2 Cache card, and if there is, have you tried removing it?

#9 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 - 15:25

IT WORKS!!!!

It turns out my largest 2 DIMMS are incompatible.

So I only have 32mb RAM. Back to System 7!!!!

#10 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 - 15:26

good for you