Hi Janice. Guess who! I would suggest trying to boot off the CD period. There is no need to do COMMAND+C, just hold down C while booting.
If you only need one hard drive and the CD drive, it should go fairly easily... I would put the HD on the bottom of the machine along side the logic board on one ide cable. And the other ide cable hooked up to the cd (and zip / hd if there is one) Make sure both IDE cable are hooked up to the motherboard. The jumper on the HD should be set on pins 2+6 for master. 12345 6789 ------ Circuitboard Pardon my ASCII drawing and general scatter-brained writing; we just had our first baby. If that does not help, you can start fiddling with CUDA switches, pulling batteries and stuff. Thanks Rob On 12/5/05 11:58 AM, "Janice Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > We have a beige G3, 233mhz, OS 9.? (probably prior to 9.2) that we've had some > problems with. It > started hanging up (usually when online) and the only way we could turn it off > was by flipping the > switch on the power strip it was plugged in to. We started it up after > shutting it down the hard > way, and got an error message about the volume header block, "do you want to > repair?" We said > yes, and then when we came back to the machine, it hung up again, so we did a > hard restart. It > came up with an address error message, error type 2. It said to restart with > extensions off, so > we did, and that made no difference. It came up saying "extension off," but > it also wouldn't go > any farther than the mac face, and the window suggesting to restart with > extensions off! > > Based on my limited knowledge and some googling, I came to the conclusion the > HD needed to be > replaced. We got one from ebay, a 6G Quantum Fireball EX, from a reputable > seller. Installed it, > with pins set to master/stand alone, got a blinking question mark. > > Here's where we stand now - what do I do about the blinking question mark? > Everything I've read > says it can't find the system folder. Duh! There isn't one yet. > > I've tried to do cmd-C with the Mac OS 9 CD in, to no avail. I've reset PRAM. > I've reseated the > IDE cable into the board it goes into. This is the only drive on that cable. > Some suggestions > include reblessing the system folder, testing and repairing the HD directory, > and reinstalling > system software; none of which I can do because there was no system folder to > begin with. > > I hope I've given sufficient info without too much extraneous. > > Thanks, > > Janice -- 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/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
