I'm a member of the pci list, but I thought it'd be more appropriate to ask this question here.
My neighbour asked me to help with her G3 B&W which refused to boot. The machine has had a startup problem for a while and she has usually succeeded to get it going by slapping it on its side at the right moment during the startup </shivers>.
Now even this trick won't help. The startup process halts soon after the Mac OS 9.2 logo has appeared, but before any extensions have loaded. The beach ball starts to spin endlessly.
Exactly the same happens when I try to start up from a cd, even if I disconnect the hard drive. I have trashed Finder/Energy saver/Monitor preferences, disconnected the keyboard, zapped the pram, pressed the cuda button and removed the battery, but the problem persists.
Has the system found a hardware problem, because the problem repeats itself with every system folder? I don't know which preferences I should throw away next.
But... I was able to install Panther and to start Classic. The machine works without problems(!) So there's something that bothers OS 9 but which is ignored by OS X?
I wasn't able to update the firmware (because the computer won't boot into OS 9). Is this a risk?
The machine has an ATI Rage 128 video card and an Adaptec 2930cu scsi card. It has been accellerated by modifying the jumpers.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
-sameli (digest mode)
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