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
>>>
>>>
>>> >>>
>>>
>>
>

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