Hi my B&W G3 freezes during startup just prior to control panel load with or without the two internal hard disks (e.g. with Norton or OS9 disk in CD drive only). All CD's and both HD's with different installs of OS8.6 freeze at the same point - just as the custom startup screen appears and just when i'd expect the control panel icons to appear along the bottom of my screen...
- also - no peripherals are connected except keyboard and mouse, holding down shift or spacebar has no effect although alt-ctrl-p-r works but zapping the p-ram doesn't solve anything. The mouse cursor doesn't freeze and there are no error messages or sounds - just the startup screen stays there forever - i left it on for a number of hours to see if anything changes but didn't I've never seen anything quite like this - would there be some uniconized extension that loads even before the extension manager and freezes without an error message... I have to conclude it's not software and it can't be the hard disks and I took out the RAM chips one by one. I suspect (something on) the motherboard is gone. Swapped that little clock thing (battery?) with another G3, swapped the ATI rage card, took out the scsi card and nothing works... If I can't fix it then most repair shops will have trouble too and they will likely quote a large number. So I'm thinking - since mine is one of the later B&W G3's - can I obtain and install a G4 motherboard - must be compatible, no? Surely - there isn't much else that can cause the problems I got. Maybe there is somewhere in NW London I can go for help... I have not much money to spend... Many thanks Zig -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:g-list@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:g-list-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:g-list-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lemlists.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
