Using the "set-defaults" command with resets seemed to bring the FireWire back on a 12" G4 867 MHz for me. It was having a similar problem recognizing drives at the volume select …

I think it was boot-usb? I was actually talking about it to a friend saturday night, he couldn't remember the exact command but he remember his issue well. Two iBook G4s, one coul…

Well. ~Coxy, you were correct. I tried a USB hard drive, zip drive, and CD drive. No Luck. The Mac would see only the USB CD drive, but would not start the disk. I tried OS 8.1, 9.…

Some PPC Macs are very finicky about USB booting. They won't work at all, or require you to drop into Open Firmware to force it to try USB.

ahh actually no. I have a rev a gossamer and it came with a SCSI drive and no IDE drive at all. we later added a 40GB IDE drive, but when time came to put OSX on it we had to buy…

You should be able to boot from a USB drive, as long as there is a known working OS 9 or OS X install on that drive. You will have to hold Option at boot with the drive connected. …

There were three revisions of the Beige G3 ROM: -A (LROG434-01/02), -B (LROG434-02) and -C (LROG434-03), and all with part no 820-0954. There are five subspecies of the Rev. A, but…

ATA cards show up as SCSI devices to the system bypassing the IDE issues with OSX on a beige G3 (also means once they are formatted on that card they cannot be used on the built in…

To get OS X on an IDE drive, it must be installed on the first partition of the drive and that partition must be 8GB or less. This can be overcome with the use of a Sonnet ATA/100…

Thanks, Wackymacs, but I tried that, too. I get the screen with the refresh button on the left and the arrow button on the right, but no drives appear (with a good OS9 install disk…

Your USB card should be one with the NEC controller chip on it. Then it will work in both Mac OS 9 (as USB1) and in Mac OS X (as both USB1 and USB2). I've heard, but not tested …

Power on the iMac, with a good known-working startup disc inserted, and hold Option. Wait, and a screen should appear showing the bootable options. When you can hear the hard drive…

I think I will get the B&W. And a 450. (I remember I seen something about this, but can I pull the processor from a Yikes! and put on a B&W?) Click to expand... …

I did fresh install of OS 8.6, AppleShare, and Timbuktu. Disabled all of the unnecessary extensions. So far it's holding out. I still think I'll pop the hood and give it a once-ove…

I had no end of trouble with OS X 10.2.8 on my Beige G3, after a while it would just die. It then turned out it was going into power saver mode : , so I disabled that and it's b…

I disabled unnecessary extensions, and now I can't even get to the finder... The CPU could be overheating. That is what was causing my Beige G3 to crash in between one and…

The CPU could be overheating. That is what was causing my Beige G3 to crash in between one and seven days for a year or two. If you have it overclocked, move the jumpers back to…

I think I will get the B&W. And a 450. (I remember I seen something about this, but can I pull the processor from a Yikes! and put on a B&W?)

Maybe I'm missing something, but what does that have to do with firmware? Click to expand... Nothing, I'm just going through the OS options. The next steps are disabling all u…

I'm running OSX 10.2 on my Biege G3. Also 9.2.1 will work. Click to expand... Maybe I'm missing something, but what does that have to do with firmware? Beige G3 uses ROM chips,…

I'm running OSX 10.2 on my Biege G3. Also 9.2.1 will work.

(a) move to 8.6? Click to expand... That's what it was originally running; it was just as bad.(I downgraded to 8.5 to see if it would make a difference) ( B) is ther…

(a) move to 8.6? ( B) is there an option of a firmware upgrade?

The shielding on Macs is more to meet regulations than anything else, as far as I know. Should work fine without it. Click to expand... Same with the new iMac G3's. I've taken …

B&W G3 officially added to the question. STILL NO JOY about Headgap's timing out? (I don't bother emailing them) Click to expand... Well if the B&W is in the run…