I found an old installer and it freezes up to. I tried putting the old jumperblock and processor in it and it still won't work. I have tried taking out memory, hd, changing the personality card out. I am out of ideas and am about ready to scrap the whole machine. Any ideas before I run it over with my truck? -Jonas
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Jonas Ulrich <[email protected]>wrote: > I don't have an old installer of os 9. Is there any way to get this one to > work? > -Jonas > > > On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Jonas Ulrich <[email protected]>wrote: > >> 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
