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OS 9 and the PM 7300 Upgrade — #1

Hello, I have a Power Mac 7300/200 running OS 9.0.4 with 48 megs of memory. Currently, the processor in this machine is a 604e, but I recently purchased a Sonnet G3 upgrade from th…
68kMLA Hardware by rpaxton32 Mon, 28 Jul 2008 - 17:36

My Lombard and the Prohibitory symbol (+ something) — #1

Hey guys, yet another question. This one one is about my Lombard. ****LOOK DOWN THE PAGE!! PLEASE! After installing both OS 10.2 and 10.3 (from retail disks), my Lombard would ac…
68kMLA Hardware by MacDan Mon, 28 Jul 2008 - 14:35

Newton MP 130 not working — #1

I loved my Newton Message Pad 130 and used it everyday, but one day the batteries died. I didn't get around to replacing them for a couple of weeks, but when I did get around to r…
68kMLA Hardware by sircabulon Mon, 28 Jul 2008 - 05:05

Beige G3 Crashing... — #21

well everything was going good with 10.3 till i started installing a security update the computer froze and wouldn't boot back into OS X Another problem started this time around th…
68kMLA Hardware by Quadraman Sat, 26 Jul 2008 - 00:06

Beige G3 Crashing... — #20

well everything was going good with 10.3 till i started installing a security update the computer froze and wouldn't boot back into OS X Another problem started this time around t…
68kMLA Hardware by Ryoohki Fri, 25 Jul 2008 - 22:16

G4 (sawtooth) graphic cards — #8

If you want to use your PCI bus for anything else time critical (like a multi channel sound recorder) I've heard it's not advisable, as it chokes the bus.
68kMLA Hardware by Bunsen Fri, 25 Jul 2008 - 13:29

Beige G3 Crashing... — #19

but my Beige G3 in OS 9 had stability issues as well but in OS X it ran like a champ with no issues (sept for the monitor going to sleep and not waking up after the 10.2.8 update, …
68kMLA Hardware by Ryoohki Fri, 25 Jul 2008 - 07:41

G4 (sawtooth) graphic cards — #7

I had good success with PCIExtreme on my Beige G3 with a Radeon 7000 in it. it actually helped allot more then hurt performance and i had the numbers to back it up as well MacJunky…
68kMLA Hardware by madmax_2069 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 - 07:26

Beige G3 Crashing... — #18

Not only does OS X need to be in a partition smaller than 8 GB, it must be the first partition on the drive. And said drive must be set as master, not slave or cable select. It's …
68kMLA Hardware by madmax_2069 Fri, 25 Jul 2008 - 07:01

Beige G3 Crashing... — #17

Not only does OS X need to be in a partition smaller than 8 GB, it must be the first partition on the drive. And said drive must be set as master, not slave or cable select. It's…
68kMLA Hardware by Bunsen Fri, 25 Jul 2008 - 05:20

Beige G3 Crashing... — #16

Turns out that the Network browser crash is a bug not a flaw i got the same freeze from the iMac DV SE so i am guessing that the rest of the crashes were similar bugs in the O…
68kMLA Hardware by Ryoohki Thu, 24 Jul 2008 - 19:22

Beige G3 Crashing... — #15

With extreme difficulty. It's one of those things that gets lumped in with 'MLB failure' as the only remaining (but unspecific) cause of malfunction. When you have eliminated the…
68kMLA Hardware by equill Thu, 24 Jul 2008 - 14:27

Beige G3 Crashing... — #14

while reinstalling the ram sticks i noticed one of them sounded like crinkling cellophane however that stick appeared to work normally (if you can call it normal) with the computer…
68kMLA Hardware by Ryoohki Thu, 24 Jul 2008 - 09:42

Beige G3 Crashing... — #13

I happily defer to equill's data over hearsay. I've never directly tested the assertions from the LEM profile, so I have no direct experimental data to support or refute it. I've a…
68kMLA Hardware by tomlee59 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 - 07:02

Beige G3 Crashing... — #12

I am puzzled by the references to the <8GB spectre. Ryoohki is writing about OS 9.2.2, having suspended his use of the formerly installed 10.2.5. I'll not deny that the li…
68kMLA Hardware by equill Thu, 24 Jul 2008 - 02:31

Beige G3 Crashing... — #11

k the beige is reformatted however it just crashed and froze again... this time it was during shutdown the finder "unexpectedly quit" during the shutdown proses and i told it to sh…
68kMLA Hardware by Ryoohki Thu, 24 Jul 2008 - 02:26

Beige G3 Crashing... — #10

The "bad things" or "flakiness" referred to include crashing, instability, failure to boot, etc. The LEM article that Quadraman refers to is consistent with what I'd heard: Instal…
68kMLA Hardware by tomlee59 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 - 00:09

Beige G3 Crashing... — #9

You need to keep your Operating System files confined to the first 8gb of hard drive space or bad things happen. LEM recommends creating a 7gb partition and putting all your OS fil…
68kMLA Hardware by Ryoohki Wed, 23 Jul 2008 - 23:39

Beige G3 Crashing... — #8

You can try a couple of things. You could try removing one DIMM at a time and test whether the problem persists. You could also try moving the DIMMs around and retesting. Howe…
68kMLA Hardware by Ryoohki Wed, 23 Jul 2008 - 23:27

Beige G3 Crashing... — #7

You need to keep your Operating System files confined to the first 8gb of hard drive space or bad things happen. LEM recommends creating a 7gb partition and putting all your OS fil…
68kMLA Hardware by Quadraman Wed, 23 Jul 2008 - 23:27

G4 (sawtooth) graphic cards — #6

Thanks for your help I will keep and eye on ebay for any of the above cards unless anyone knows where I can get any new ones
68kMLA Hardware by Retroman Wed, 23 Jul 2008 - 22:57

Beige G3 Crashing... — #6

I don't know if Rev. C ROMs fixed this problem, but ISTR that if the system resides in a partition larger than 8GB, much flakiness can occur if any system resources are stored beyo…
68kMLA Hardware by Ryoohki Wed, 23 Jul 2008 - 22:49

Beige G3 Crashing... — #5

My WAGuess would be that one of your memory DIMMs is defective and the fault resides at an address which is always occupied by the operating system. GaugePro and its ilk cannot …
68kMLA Hardware by trag Wed, 23 Jul 2008 - 22:49

Beige G3 Crashing... — #4

I don't know if Rev. C ROMs fixed this problem, but ISTR that if the system resides in a partition larger than 8GB, much flakiness can occur if any system resources are stored beyo…
68kMLA Hardware by tomlee59 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 - 22:31

G4 (sawtooth) graphic cards — #5

I was just about to say what bunson just said(before the power just went out very unexpectedly on this clear sunny day -_- ) He is right though, a PCI Radeon 7000 is not worth i…
68kMLA Hardware by MacJunky Wed, 23 Jul 2008 - 22:22
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