Hello, This is my first post, so be gentle.
I have inherited (no he's not dead, just got rid of it) a Beige Power Macintosh G3. I am not sure what the original speed was...you see he installed a PowerLogix PowerForce G4 accelerator in it. It now shows a PowerPC G4 as the processor and a speed of 433MHz in the System Profiler. It is running MacOS 9.2.1 right now, and I have two issues. First, I would like to upgrade to Jaguar. I have looked for Firmware updates, and there seems to be none. I have attempted to perform the install, but my "friend" installed Norton and a host of other utilities that perform all kinds of things on startup and shutdown. It is very annoying. Anyway, as I double-click on the Install Mac OS X it brings up the screen that asked to push the RESTART button. I do and nothing happens. I go back to finder and perform a restart from the menu. It restarts fine right back into 9.2.1 -- stops the install. I figure I need to startup with extensions off, but there are extensions that are supposed to support the PowerLogix accelerator. I don't know if they will be significantly affected by those extensions (and I'm not sure all of the ones I need there) being OFF. Now my second problem is a bit tougher. I have an internal Zip and Jaz drives installed. The DVD-ROM drive and system disk appear to both be IDE. However, the Zip and Jaz are SCSI and they don't work. If I have them connected and powered, the system will hold on startup. At any time if I plug them back up, the system will hang when checking for Devices and Volumes in Profiler or any SCSI utility. SCSI probe noted a termination error the first time I started the machine with everything connected. I have since thought I fixed that, but I have never been able to startup the system to that point. Now, if I connect after the system is up, and try out SCSI probe it hangs. What I figure is my SCSI problem is one of two things. 1) The SCSI controller is going/gone bad. I hope this is not the case, but I'm guessing here. or 2) The SCSI cable has a short. This is possible, since it "looks" old and discolored in places. It is also thread through the weirdest way through the machine. If this is the case, I'm not sure if it will ever be fixed. Any suggestions? Sorry for so long a post. DC PS - It has a USB card installed, too. I can connect a USB Zip 250 to that and it works! -- 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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
