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November 15: Wife starts complaining about the G3 Beige giving her troubles. I go out and buy the OS-X Puma set, install OS-9 onto it. November 30: System still not completely stable. I decide she's going to get a new computer for Christmas. December 15: Bought my wife an eMac. December 25: Inherited her old Beige G3. January 15: Bought an ACard 133 for it on eBay. January 25: Got the card. Installed it. Put a 2nd hard drive on the system Worked nicely. January 31: Bought a JAZ drive on eBay. Paid $5.00 for it, came with 3 1-g disks. February 15: Got the JAZ drive. It was an internal SCSI. Opened up the case, put it where the floppy was. Worked nicely. February 25: Started trying to load OS-X (Jaguar) onto the 2nd drive. Installer dies, screen goes black. Tried about 5 times. Rolled back, installed OS-X Puma. Mar. Started trying different ways to get Jaguar to load on the hard drive. Finally discovered that if it dies, I can keep trying and eventually it makes it through, about the fourth try. Mar. 19: Having just stabilized my Jaguar system, I start to button up the box. Pulled the Jaz drive out, put it on a mounting bracket, put it back in. Forget to notice that the power supply connector on the back of Jaz drives don't have the little white tongue to keep you from plugging it in upside down. I turn on the system, and the whole neighborhood smells smoke right away. Lost: ACard 133, 80 gig ATA hard drive, 40 gig ATA hard drive, Jaz drive, HP 9100 CDRW. Motherboard is ok. Mar. 20: Put the G3 in the junk pile. June 15: Took it off the junk pile. Bought a Sonnet Tempo card. Bought a 30g drive. Worked fine June 20: Bought a Sonnet G3-500. Installed it, worked wonderfully. Found the original 4g drive, plugged it in on motherboard cable. Started in again with the process of trying to install Jaguar. 4 tries later, Jaguar successfully launches on the 30g drive. But with the Sonnet Tempo card, Jaguar wouldn't install on a large partition, even on the HD that was plugged into it. My experience was that the ACard 133 didn't have that problem, it allowed the entire disk to be used for Jaguar. </Narrative> Now: I have a problem. I can't get Classic to run. It loads up, fills up the thermometer, and then goes away. I am running on Sonnet G3 500, 768mB. What to do? -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
