Also try testing the internal backup battery (silver disk). If you had dead AA batteries and were running on backup for a while you may have drained that as well.

This thread has resonances with the battle by beachycove to get a PB 500 series with a recelled battery to accept its new lease of life. I agree with wally's recommendation that r…

Depends on the G3 you purchased and how much cache it has (512K or 1MB). To get a faster system you need more RAM, an ATA/66 IDE card or a fast wide SCSI card and some decent HDs. …

Could be, but give it a chance to heal (recharge). I was sure the PRAM battery was hosed on the PBG3 Firewire I just bought, but then I pulled the dead main battery to do some sur…

Given more RAM, to at least 256MB, preferably matched and paired (interleaved), and an upgrade to at least OS 9.1, or 9.2.2 with OS9Helper, much better. 'Better' however, depends …

I think it is the PRAM battery (though it'll boot up to OS 9.2.2 perfectly. No "?" mark folder). It boots into OS 10.3, if I select it from the install OS X CD or if I select it f…

Just pull the main battery, the optical drive can be in or out, leave the PowerBook plugged in several days. I've seen conflicting info on the internet regarding just which models…

I'm just using a 20 gb partition. I asked elsewhere if I should partition it, but they said Lombards didn't need partitioning. Thanks for the tip, I'll try it. How exactly do I c…

Should you have a zero charge old main battery in there when you are testing, you can try pulling it out and charging the PRAM battery for a full 48 hours in either operating or sh…

the display remaining in a sleep like state wile booting can be fixed. in open firmware its normlly set to use a different output thats no longer installed, in xpostfacto there is …

maybe somehow the battery contacts are corroded and need cleaning, or connections got bent somehow. i would check them to see there condition. if that don't work then something in…

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…

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…

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.

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, …

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…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…