For the past year and a half my B&W G3 mac has been running with the PowerLogix G4 ZIF running at (I believe) 500Mhz. Recently my hard drive crashed so I replaced the drive did an install of the OS X (10.2.8, The machine was previously running under OSX) and now the computer will not go past the grey OSX screen with the big apple. (Occasionally the video on the screen is broken up by pixeled artifacts midway down running horizontally.)
Set-up WD 80GB HD Sony CDRW Both running off internal ATA controller
Rev 2 motherboard Rage 128 Video card 1GB memory no external devices (except ADB keyboard and mouse)
The G4 ZIF was running at 500Mhz. If I change the settings to 550, or 600 I do not even get the start-up chime.
BUT when I replace the original G3 350 zif in, it runs great.
What I have tried in no particular order:
Booting from an TechTool CD
will not boot under 9.2 or 10.2
Re-seated, shuffled, and even changed out, reduced memory
zapped PRAM
reset CUDA button
Removed battery, power and let sit overnight
re-seated ZIF, checked that all pins straight not broken or missing, made sure heat sink is set snug, contact is clean
changed out HD to Maxtor 80GB
re-seated and changed out video card
emailed PowerLogix support (no answer 5 days and counting)
Any ideas or assistance would be appreciated.
Regards, Mark
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