Oops, missed those last couple of sentences. The reason for asking was that I had a problem with a 2300c caused by overheating of a transformer on the logic board (one of those sq…

The best way to reset the pram is to disconnect main power, disconnect the PS from the motherboard, remove the pram battery, tap the power button to kill any residual voltage, and …

what is it with beige motherboards dying? / the symptoms were a non-booting OS X install, OS 9 booting fine. Click to expand... you THINK you cleared it with Command-Option-P-R a…

Does the Duo work on its own fine outside the Dock?

I had a bad hd and replaced it 2 weeks ago bad sectors. now it has stopped starting up 1 it chimes 2 i get a gray screen no pin wheel 3 nothing happens. i have tried bootin…

I have been tinkering with mine lately, and it will end up like this: G3 Tower with G3/400mhz processor from my Blue/White G3 384MB RAM 9.1GB SCSI hard disk 3GB IDEhard disk Z…

what is it with beige motherboards dying? / the symptoms were a non-booting OS X install, OS 9 booting fine. Click to expand... you THINK you cleared it with Command-Option-P-R a…

A few points to add to the good advice others have contributed: - As folks have said, Tiger must be installed on the first partition, and the partition should be smaller than 7.45…

Nice, thanks for the link.

I did not look at them that closely but that is a definite possibility. Either way, it was a benefit since the two ram chips originally in the Lombard were not suitable for the un…

Wallstreet and Lombard both have 66MHz system busses and can use PC66 SO-DIMMs. If someone went the cheap route on the Wallstreet and only used bare-minimum spec PC66 SDRAM (yes, …

I reseated the CPU to no go. I took the RAM out and put it into my Lombard along with a new 20GB HD, instant boot. Works great. I installed the old Lombard RAM which apparently …

Do the old "disconnect the PRAM battery", and reseat the CPU card - it goes in with a "thunk" sound. JB

When i put the my duo 2300c into the original duo dock after it has been sitting for a few weeks it boots just fine and runs for about a minute then shuts down. Each time i start i…

I was given a Pismo stock except the HD was smaller. After aquiring a fully loaded Wallstreet 14" with hinges not doing so well. I gutted it intended on making a good pismo out o…

I'm back, but until I re-learn how to embed a URL or get around to copy/pasting my '''fritter return to the web announcement in the lounge, you folks are SOL on the full story.... …

Yay! He's back! Glad to hear from you, Trash! Peace, Drew Click to expand... Thanks for the welcome comrade! In just a few minutes my friend is helping me pick up 9' of 6" b…

Yay! He's back! Glad to hear from you, Trash! Peace, Drew

I'm back, but until I re-learn how to embed a URL or get around to copy/pasting my '''fritter return to the web announcement in the lounge, you folks are SOL on the full story. ht…

What I did when I had this problem is take the hard drive out, put it into a tiger capable mac, then install tiger on that first partition, before the user setup process, just tak…

I did the same install on a beige G3 some back and had a couple of problems. I had to format a partition not at but slightly under 8 gb and it had to be the first partition on the …

I wonder if I should partition the whole 80gb drive into 7.5gb partitions and see what that does. Click to expand... You'd just end up with a whole lot of 7.5GB patitions, whic…

Just tried it. Screwed around with the drive configuration and got the same results as before. I wonder if I should partition the whole 80gb drive into 7.5gb partitions and see wha…

Just tried it. Screwed around with the drive configuration and got the same results as before. I wonder if I should partition the whole 80gb drive into 7.5gb partitions and see wha…

try making is something like 7.5GB. that's probably the problem.