For shits and giggles, take the hard drive out and just boot from an os x disk, see what happens. Thats how I've figured out bad hard drives and such. Of course, a full size G4 to…

I have: G3 desktop OS 9.2.2 (I'm struggling to get it to dual boot Ubuntu) 1000 MHz G3 (running from a 83 MHz FSB) 768 MB ram 80 GB hd 24x cd-rom ATI Radeon 9200 PCI 2-port…

I'd take it back to when you replaced the hard disk - did you set master/slave on the new drive? The fact that it's chiming, booting to a grey screen suggests all is good - so I'…

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 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…

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

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.

Can you approach it from the server side? Can you add VT emulation config files to your home directory and profile?