The reason that I will sleep my iMac during boot is that I sometimes will have to use my keyboard and mouse for other computers and I'll forget that there's no keyboard or mouse so I'll sleep it during boot. As far as I know, it is the stock internal drive. Is it safe to replace a hard drive on a G3? I am sleeping it by pressing the power button. The power light will pulse amber, but you can tell that the hard drive us pulling power because it will flicker when the HD revs up.
One mans trash is another mans treasure. In my case, this happens to be with old Macs :) On Feb 15, 2010, at 12:50 AM, tyltotheler92 <tyltothele...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, If you have a Western Digital Hard Drive inside in that iMac, that problem will arise. There is an issue with certain firmware versioins on the slot loader iMac G3s that would conflict with 6-80gb Western Digital Caviar HDs. Has this hard drive been replaced at any time? You may want to look at a Seagate or something to replace it with. Its not a fixable though. However, the Harddrive hasn't gone bad, its just a bug with SMART, and in any other computer it will work fine. -Tyler On Feb 15, 12:25 am, Clark Martin <cm...@sonic.net> wrote: On 2/14/10 3:34 PM, Mike Styer wrote: Sometimes I will sleep my iMac G3 350mHz 10.3 panther and it will sleep fine for a few seconds. But the hard drive will then rev up, coast, and then repeat. I think this only happens when I sleep it while it is booting up. Does anyone have any idea why this nights happen? Why are you sleeping it (or trying to) during boot? How are you sleeping it? When the HD is "waking" is the power light pulsing? -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting "I'm a designated driver on the Information Super Highway" -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
