On Sunday, July 18, 2004, at 12:25 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yesterday, I was upgrading a G3 MT with a Maxtor 80 GB main drive (ATA) and
adding a JAZ 1 GB (SCSI).
The computer does NOT chime, and starts up with a blank, white, off-center
panel, with a tiny line of print reading "1, unknown word_". My programming
experience in the '70s and '80s with Apple 2s suggests this is a programmers
access, but I haven't a clue how to proceed. Any help out there ?
We had one of these do something similar to us trying to upgrade it to OSX. I could only get it to boot from the CD with a PRAM reset. I was getting a SCSI error, though.
Turns out that the hard drive was the only thing on the bus, and was set to Master. I struggled for a couple of days before I tried unsetting the jumper (making neither Master, Slave or Cable Select) and it booted right up no problems whatsoever.
Not quite the problem you're describing, but it's worth a look. Otherwise I'd suspect the PRAM battery.
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