Hi Tom;
have you pulled the pram battery and reset the mobo?
if not pull the battery and locate the reset switch on the mobo and
hold it
down for 60 seconds. put the battery back and reboot (some settings will
have gone back to default - adjust as required)
i would also use DiskWarrior to make sure the directory structure is aok.
a bus error may also indicate a video problem but i don't know much
about video on beige g3's so i can't help you there
Al
Thomas Rothmeier wrote:
>
> Hi, AI have a Beige G3/300 Desktop (64/4gig/zip/cd/ REV. 2 or 3 ROM, whisper
> sound card, Raytheon VRM) that has been locking up unexpectedly every day.
> It can run fine for 2 hours or 2 minutes, and the computer will either hard
> lock-up (mouse freezes) or a not so hard one (mouse moves). Attempts to
> force quit in this mode have resulted in a complete freeze. Every 2 or 3
> restarts give me BUS ERROR, but freezes before it give me the whole dialog
> box. I have been running OS 8.6 on it, and the only applications I have been
> using are IE, Disk First Aid, Toast Titanium (for external SCSI burner) and
> a few old games. I pulled extra RAM from it and swapped HD's (with an older
> 2 gig). The computer's jumpers have not been modified, and nothing else on
> the motherboard, either.
> Anything that I missed? I was planning to upgrade it, (512MB RAM, 80GB HD,
> OS X) but I need to know if its easily remedied or headed for the scrap
> pile.
> Thank you for your help.r
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