I have gone through the memory and replaced all of it. I have replaced the power supply when it went out. All that is left in the case is the G3 Zif, the Motherboard and the graphics card (reported as a ATY,Rage128y)
So its down to one of those three.. the panics give nothing consistent and offer very little information. and the os9 lockups just freezes the box. I have everything removed from it but the graphics card and memory. I have seen graphics cards go bad and it usually give some sort of artifact on the screen prior to it locking up. (I know this isn't ALWAYS the case... but I feel pretty confident that the card is working okay.) I will probably find something to replace it with soon anyway. The G4 has the improved FPU and Altivec so hopefully I will get a slight bump in the exchange. Currently the system is running Tiger with the appropriate updates.. it has been happy with 9.2.2 (as well as Tiger).. it didn't do well with panther. On May 25, 10:38 am, Larry Stotler <larrystot...@gmail.com> wrote: > On May 23, 7:07 pm, Gus <gusr...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > Well, after doing some considering... I think I will try to put the > > Yikes board in the B&W. I read around and ran across some poor soul > > that couldn't get his B&W working after 2 Motherboard swaps and > > finally stuck a G3 in a Yikes board and put it in his Smurf case. > > The ONLY difference between a Yikes motherboard and a Smurf should be > the deletion of the adb ports IIRC. > > > This G3 hasn't been right since I got it used a few years back and it > > would be nice to see it run a full day without a lock up (os9) or a > > panic (OSX). > > Have you tried the RAM? I've had problems with my SDRAM macs that > cleared up once I swapped RAM sticks. A bad RAM chip can cause all > sorts of irriatating headaches. Try putting them in a PC and running > memtest on them to see if they are ok. And even then, some Macs are > just really finnicky about RAM. I'd start with that before I did too > much else. > > Also, what version of the motherboard is it? The Rev 1's have a bad > IDE controller on the 33Mhz bus. So, I would check the chip to see if > it has a sticker on it with 402. It will be near the PCI slot that's > opposite the RAM. You can gain stability(but lose some speed) with > the other controller. It's only a 16.7Mhz one tho. > > > And just maybe the graphics will run a bit quicker as well. > > What card are you using? And what version of Mac OS? 10.2 and older > didn't make as much use of the graphics card for the desktop as 10.3 > and newer. > > > Thanks everyone for their help!!! > > No Problem. Why we're here..... > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for > those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power > Macs. > The list FAQ is athttp://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtmland our netiquette > guide is athttp://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group athttp://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
