On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Mike Styer <mstye...@yahoo.com> wrote: > 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. >
Why the Dire need to sleep during boot just because it's missing it's keyboard and mouse? They're USB, so it'll see them once your plug them in. it's not like ADB where it's bad to hot plug. It is safe to replace the HDD in a G3: I did mine about a month ago, just remember that if you're using a tray load iMac, then you'll have to partition the drive into 2 pieces if it's above (IIRC) 8gb, and install the WHOLE OS on the first 8GB, but you can save all your programs and files to the 2nd partition (Flaw\feature in the IDE controller IIRC) Does it do this behavior when the you sleep it after fully booting? -- -Proudly Sent from a Windows PC -- 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
