I'm so happy that I can post again.....Thanks to Dan et. al.
Here's the deal, I LOVE playing around with older Macs, I've been
doing it for years.
I recently bought a Revision 1 Blue & White G3 from PowerMax. It
came with 8.6 installed on it on a 6 gig drive and 'definitely' not
the original video card...it was some 8 gig no name card POS. It
also had 2 RAM sticks (total of 256 mb) both different sizes--
physically....to me the whole thing looked 'thrown together'. It did
and does boot but I was less than pleased.
I put in a 120 gig drive and bought the Sonata video card from
Sonnettech. I also bought the 500 mhz G4 upgrade ZIF and their Aria
wireless card. Also bought 512 of cheap RAM.
I put all of this in and have been trying to get some version of OS X
running on it, practically everything fails. The failure occurs when
the installation finishes and it reboots....then it just hangs. I've
had a few successful installs but then if I go on to install any of
the updates files get corrupted and the OS becomes unstable and
crashes and burns.
Also, I've tried installing OS 9.1 on it.....it runs with much
greater stability but on restart, I get random 'bombs' and notices
that I must restart with extensions off. Thankfully, this is not my
primary Mac....but it sure is fun to play around! Anyway, a lot of
what I describe above is really frustrating too. I'd like to have
10.4 on it with 9.1 as the classic part.....but that seems to be
elusive.
Oh, with the Sonnet ZIF upgrade, I've taken it out and remove the ROM
patch.
Any suggestions on possible fixes would be greatly appreciated. Do
any of you think this could be a RAM issue?
EC
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