Re: [G3-5] PowerMac G3 wont boot after Tiger effort

2009-07-16 Thread MaGioZal
On 7/13/09 10:11 AM, Nestamicky at nestami...@gmail.com wrote: On Jul 12, 2009, at 10:37 PM, nburman wrote: It seems something is wrong because it spends 3-4 mins on a black screen, after the chimes. Here's the point that you go 'back to zero'. You open the machine and strip it, until

Re: [G3-5]Re: PowerMac G3 wont boot after Tiger effort

2009-07-16 Thread MaGioZal
On 7/13/09 9:59 PM, nburman at nburmandes...@gmail.com wrote: Now my G3 won't chime on startup. Is that a sign of certain death? If it's starting up, it's not dead...;-) -- MaGioZal. http://flickr.com/photos/magiozal/ --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received

Re: [G3-5]Re: PowerMac G3 wont boot after Tiger effort

2009-07-16 Thread MaGioZal
On 7/13/09 5:05 PM, Gus at gusr...@comcast.net wrote: I know I am going to come off sounding ignorant, but how do you remove the buggy ATI Driver out of 10.2.8? Well, it seems like I forgot to put the link...:-P Here it is: http://support.apple.com/kb/TA22360 -- MaGioZal.

Re: PowerMac G3 wont boot after Tiger effort

2009-07-14 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jul 13, 2009, at 6:48 PM, nburman wrote: All thats missing at the mo (as it installs Jag) is the floppy drive, A/V card, If that's the 'Wings' card, put it back in, a lot of Beiges won't boot without that card present. One of the things you're finding out is that there was some weird

Re: PowerMac G3 wont boot after Tiger effort

2009-07-14 Thread Bill Connelly
On Jul 14, 2009, at 11:45 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Jul 13, 2009, at 6:48 PM, nburman wrote: All thats missing at the mo (as it installs Jag) is the floppy drive, A/V card, If that's the 'Wings' card, put it back in, a lot of Beiges won't boot without that card present. One of the

Re: PowerMac G3 wont boot after Tiger effort

2009-07-13 Thread Nestamicky
On Jul 12, 2009, at 10:37 PM, nburman wrote: It seems something is wrong because it spends 3-4 mins on a black screen, after the chimes. Here's the point that you go 'back to zero'. You open the machine and strip it, until you begin to enjoy it. Take everything out, put it back all in but

Re: PowerMac G3 wont boot after Tiger effort

2009-07-13 Thread Gus
On Jul 12, 12:37 am, MaGioZal magio...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/10/09 9:11 PM, Nick Burman at nbur...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone know how to make this Mac startup from a CDROM so I can install Jaguar? Hi Nick, Well, I am running here Mac OS 10.4 on a Beige G3 with 512MB RAM, and without

Re: PowerMac G3 wont boot after Tiger effort

2009-07-13 Thread nburman
Now my G3 won't chime on startup. Is that a sign of certain death? Nick --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power

Re: PowerMac G3 wont boot after Tiger effort

2009-07-13 Thread nburman
By the way, the PRAM battery measures 3.58V On Jul 13, 6:59 pm, nburman nburmandes...@gmail.com wrote: Now my G3 won't chime on startup. Is that a sign of certain death? Nick --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End

Re: PowerMac G3 wont boot after Tiger effort

2009-07-13 Thread Po-en Tsai
On 14/07/2009, at 12:59 PM, nburman wrote: Now my G3 won't chime on startup. Is that a sign of certain death? Did you change anything before it would not start up? Thanks, Po-en Tsai -- iMac G3 Indigo 350 MHz, running OSX 10.4, 10.3 and OS 9.2.2, 80gb HDD with 768MB ram. Quite speedy.

Re: PowerMac G3 wont boot after Tiger effort

2009-07-13 Thread nburman
I did as advised - I took out all the parts then started putting them back one at a time. All thats missing at the mo (as it installs Jag) is the floppy drive, A/V card, and a USB firewire card, all of which were in it when it was working fine. ie before I tried to install Tiger... On Jul 13,

Re: PowerMac G3 wont boot after Tiger effort

2009-07-12 Thread nburman
I've tried the CUDMA Reset, and now (after a few minutes) it cycles around with a flashing disk image. I have DVD ROM attached temporarily (ie case open), and even though there's disc in it, it won't start up. It seems something is wrong because it spends 3-4 mins on a black screen, after the

Re: PowerMac G3 wont boot after Tiger effort

2009-07-11 Thread Wayne Garrett
Use OWC program for backwards compatability. On 7/10/09, Nick Burman nbur...@gmail.com wrote: I tried installing Tiger on a Beige (yes it's beige) PowerMac G3. After the install failed, and I got a pile of error messages on the screen, I realised it wasn't worth the effort and now want to

Re: PowerMac G3 wont boot after Tiger effort

2009-07-11 Thread Lawrence David Eden
Use OWC program for backwards compatability. On 7/10/09, Nick Burman nbur...@gmail.com wrote: I tried installing Tiger on a Beige (yes it's beige) PowerMac G3. After the install failed, and I got a pile of error messages on the screen, I realised it wasn't worth the effort and now want to

Re: PowerMac G3 wont boot after Tiger effort

2009-07-11 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jul 10, 2009, at 5:30 PM, Po-en Tsai wrote: On 11/07/2009, at 12:16 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: Yank the pram battery. Press the CUDA switch. Wait 15 minutes, re- insert PRAM battery, press cuda switch again, boot. In the quoted post, Bruce says to press the CUDA button twice between a

Re: PowerMac G3 wont boot after Tiger effort

2009-07-11 Thread MaGioZal
On 7/10/09 9:11 PM, Nick Burman at nbur...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone know how to make this Mac startup from a CDROM so I can install Jaguar? Hi Nick, Well, I am running here Mac OS 10.4 on a Beige G3 with 512MB RAM, and without graphics card (using the 6MB VRAM motherboard video port). The

PowerMac G3 wont boot after Tiger effort

2009-07-10 Thread Nick Burman
I tried installing Tiger on a Beige (yes it's beige) PowerMac G3. After the install failed, and I got a pile of error messages on the screen, I realised it wasn't worth the effort and now want to install Jaguar on it again. I tried wiping the hard drive (from another machine, in an external

Re: PowerMac G3 wont boot after Tiger effort

2009-07-10 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jul 10, 2009, at 5:11 PM, Nick Burman wrote: I tried wiping the hard drive (from another machine, in an external enclosure) but the thing still won't startup. Holding down the C key gets me the happy mac icon, then it restarts. Then it loops restarting endlessly. I tried reseting nvram

Re: PowerMac G3 wont boot after Tiger effort

2009-07-10 Thread Po-en Tsai
On 11/07/2009, at 12:16 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: Yank the pram battery. Press the CUDA switch. Wait 15 minutes, re- insert PRAM battery, press cuda switch again, boot. In the quoted post, Bruce says to press the CUDA button twice between a boot. According to the Apple Help Documents, it

Re: PowerMac G3 wont boot after Tiger effort

2009-07-10 Thread Bill Connelly
On Jul 10, 2009, at 8:30 PM, Po-en Tsai wrote: On 11/07/2009, at 12:16 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: Yank the pram battery. Press the CUDA switch. Wait 15 minutes, re- insert PRAM battery, press cuda switch again, boot. In the quoted post, Bruce says to press the CUDA button twice between a

Re: PowerMac G3 wont boot after Tiger effort

2009-07-10 Thread Ernest L. Gunerius
On Jul 10, 2009, at 8:30 PM, Po-en Tsai wrote: On 11/07/2009, at 12:16 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: Yank the pram battery. Press the CUDA switch. Wait 15 minutes, re- insert PRAM battery, press cuda switch again, boot. In the quoted post, Bruce says to press the CUDA button twice