I am probably not the best person to help you on the rev 1 boards. I know there were some issues with using the master/slave on the motherboards ide connectors. I believe you could only use one master on each channel. One channel was for the disk drive and the other was for the dvd/cd.
As far as the keyboard. I noticed that a PC keyboard would not allow me to zap pram when i booted up. I had to use an apple keyboard in adb connector. I have replace my rev2 board with a yikes board and it only had usb now. The apple usb would allow me zap pram and allow me into the firmware where as the pc keyboard would not. I think it all depends on if the firmware recognizes the keyboard when it is plugged in. I have never tried putting a disk drive card inside a mac and tried to boot off of a drive attached to it. You would have to get the manufactures specs on the ide card and see if it is supported in allowing a boot from the card. You may have much more luck using the IDE connections on the main board and connecting your hard drive to them.. and temporarily removing the scsi card and IDE card until you have a working, booting machine. You should see some video on boot up even if it doesn't find a boot device. I have personally seen the b&w pass the P.O.S.T. with the chime and still not boot because of a bad cpu. (I seriously doubt that is an issue in your machine. But since it can happen you should keep it in mind). I would make sure I had an apple keyboard, remove the two drive cards and zap the pram and see if you can get a CD or one of your system drives to boot off of the motherboards ide channel. Once you get it booting normally in minimal configuration, you can add the expansion cards one at a time and see how they work with your system. Hope this helps. Gus. On Dec 8, 4:56 pm, applewho <queel...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I have B&W G3, rev1, , it seems that the motherboard is good because > when turned on the light come on on the motherboard and it chimes. It > has a SCSI board installed on it, ATA/133 PCI card installed, and ati > graphics card. There are 4 memory cards installed. Problem: HDs. I > have a few HDs laying around the house that I would like to see if > they work, they worked on the G3 at one time. I have transported the > G3 across country and now am trying to figure out if I can use this > machine while I save up for a G5 destop and take some of the pressure > and time off my Macbook for video stuff. I want to know if it is > worth my time and pocket to try to get the G3 working for a little bit > of cash. I purchased a $6 usb keyboard online and am using a emachine > monitor. I have tried hooking up the HDs to the PCI card and then > booted but nothing, while the HDs light up, I get nothing on the > monitor.PLs help, I have put OS9 in the CD tray and when installing > pressed "C"l to try and boot up to the CD but so far nothing. PLS > help. is there any way to try to see if the drives will work. I do > have external drives that I use with my laptop, one is a usb and the > orther is a FW HD. both of these drives work with the laptop. But I > have not tried to see if they work with the G3. Lost at home. :( -- 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
