I turned the extentions off and it booted! I am going to try to find an older 9 installer. I have run 9.2 on several beiges with no problems though...
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Kris Tilford <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Oct 4, 2009, at 3:21 PM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: > > > I just overclocked my beige g3 with 400MHZ processor to a 433MHZ. I > > am trying to install 9.2 but everytime i put in the disc it gets to > > the loading screen and completely freezes. Not even the mouse moves. > > Help please! > > Overclock could be too high, you might try the normal 400 MHz to begin > with. You can't generally overclock the System bus to anything greater > than the stock 66 MHz unless your motherboard had the faster Grackle > chip, which normally only came on the early 233 MHz motherboards. You > might also have a RAM issue, bad RAM or poorly seated RAM can cause > freezes. Reseating everything rarely hurts and often helps. > > 9.2 isn't the best MacOS for the Beige. The Beige's personality cards > used some special extensions that only worked up to OS 9.1, so 9.1 was > the "final" version of MacOS that supported the Beige hardware. You > can use 9.2.2, but you need to replace several of the extensions with > older versions from 9.1 or earlier. > > As I remember, some that are necessary to replace are (final working > versions listed): > > Sound Control Panel (???) > ATI Graphics Accelerator v. 5.2.4 > ATI Resource Manager v. 2.7.3 > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
