Re: B&W PowerMac G3 Problems

[Jonathan Newman]

Okay I finally got it to boot via 9.1 CD. I erased the 9.2.2 partition 
and then reset directly to 10. yeah it's not dead in the water! on the 
other hand, I've tried to do the holding down command(apple 
key)-option-P-R but nothing happened. what was supposed to happen? I 
did manage to get the firmware to update in all this madness, but it 
didn't fix my weird memory reporting problem. There is this one dimm, 
thats made by a weird company it might be the problem, but the rest it 
from Viking, and Samsung. all Cas latency 3-2-2. So I'm not sure if 
they are really the source of my problems. I'll just have to play 
around and see.

 - Jonathan
P.S. - What's this about carriage returns?

On Jul 13, 2004, at 4:49 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Jul 13, 2004, at 2:59 PM, Jonathan Newman wrote:
Okay so I have a B&W G3 PowerMac that I've recently built up from 
parts I bought off ebay.

It chimes, but then hangs completely I don't get anything. I put in 
10.3 install disk, press "C" nothing, 9.1 install disk "c" nothing. 
nothing nothing nothing! it chimes, it works-ish it just doesn't 
boot! what am I doing wrong? any help would be nice.

Carriage returns! They're called carriage returns...I suspect your 
computer's only out of breath from going so long without a break..;-)

I suspect your PRAM is confused beyond belief. Reboot holding down 
command-option-p-r and let it bong several times. Some people 
recommend letting the startup chime go 10 times or more.

I also suspect your PRAM battery is dead. Does it continually forget 
the date and time?

You shouldn't have to partition the drive over and over again. 10.3 
should install from CD regardless of what OS is on the disk.

You may have a flaky disk, too. Double check all cabling, master/slave 
assignment of the drives.

You may have mis-seated or flaky RAM. That's notorious for causing 
hard-to-diagnose problems. That you have weirdness in the system 
profiler with the memory is an indicator of this.

The problem began, I fear with "...built out of parts I got on 
E-bay..." That makes it hard to diagnose with possible multiple points 
of failure.


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