I can get the B&W to boot from the CD drive, using either the AppleCare disk, an OS 9 install disk, or a Norton disk. I get a startup chime, the system boots, and I get a standard desktop. The hard drive, which came from the G3 266 desktop and has OS 9.1 installed, shows up on the desktop, as do all of its desktop aliases.
However, when I select the hard drive as the startup disk, it will not boot from the hard drive, it just hangs with a blank screen. I also get an error message telling me the firmware is out of date and must be updated. I get the same message when I try to run the G3 firmware update from the CD Extras folder on the hard drive. Attempts to do a clean OS 9 install on the hard drive while booted from the OS 9 CD also results in a firmware update message. I've read the B&W service manual and have reset the motherboard per its instructions.
What is the problem? Do I need a B&W-specific install CD? Do I need a B&W-specific 300 MHz or better cpu (though Apple System Profiler shows the 266 to be running at an overclocked 300)? Or am I missing something quite simple? This is my first experience with a B&W machine, and I'm baffled.
Thanks in advance for your help.
-- Jim
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