I had a similar experience over the summer upgrading the HD on my son's beige G3 233 desktop. I can't remember just what fixed it, but it I believe the problem had to do with the Startup Disk designation -- and the fact that our new hard drive was too big and needed to be partitioned properly to work with System 9, which I believe has a limit of 8GB on the first partition. (Could that be the problem for you?)
I was able to fix my glitch by returning everything to its original position/state (original HD where it was, in particular) and then carefully making only one small change at a time (installing two hard drives, starting up separately from each, swapping the two drives' positions and then removing the old drive to make sure the machine could function without the original) -- and then, only after making sure that everything else I'd done was fine. And you're not messing with OS X, I gather? That would add another level of things to try one step at a time. Hope that helps. I'll be interested in knowing how it goes for you. Best of luck -- CM On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 07:59:31 -0800 (PST), Jay Winter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HELP!!! > I'm trying to upgrade a Beige G3/300 (Rev B/3) Minitower > for my daughter in time for Christmas. I had everything > working fine... OS 9.21 was installed, and I was working on > re-routing the cables for the new hard drive (which had > been working fine), and suddenly it will not boot. > > 1. The hard drive starts to spin-up, then stops. > 2. If I disconnect the cable from the hard drive, it spins > up okay. Same symptoms with another known good drive. > Tried many other cables to no avail. > 3. Can't boot from CD either -- same symptoms with CDROM > drive as with hard drive. > 4. No video display at all. Nada; zilch; black screen. > 5. Tried swapping out the power supply with a new ATX > supply I had on hand.... NO CHange in symptoms. > 6. Had a NEW rev-B motherboard on hand, so I swapped it; > reinstalled everything... NO Change in symptoms. > 7. Only things I have NOT swapped out are the CPU and the > VRM. Don't have replacements for either on hand, but I've > ordered a new VRM. Could that be the problem? > > ANY ideas will be appreciated, since I'm an old hand with > PCs, but new to Macs. > > MANY THANKS!!! > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > -- > 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 > -- 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
