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> From: Iamanamma <[email protected]>
"
> That said, it resides in
> a metal fab shop that is not climate controlled in the least (okay, we
> have a furnace, but that's it!) and the environment is very dirty. I
> think it may just have gotten tired of eating dust, and died.
>
Possible; if you have an air compressor handy I would open up the G3 and blow
it
it out -- don't miss the power supply. But first remove all RAM and all
video/PCI installed cards. Clean the contacts on the logic board and the
RAM/cards after the air blow and reinstall. And be sure no water is sprayed
from
the compressor, if water is sprayed you will have to wait a few days for it to
dry.
Do this in a "dirty" room as dust bunnies will fly, polluting the air perhaps
beyond your expectations.
My experience in a small commercial printing company that is very dusty;
streets
and parking lots on all sides and no environmental controls except for open
windows and some window mounted A/C's is that all my Mac's collect a lot'a
dust.
I blow them out with a 4 HP/20 compressor in the somewhat moldy basement where
the air compressor it located.
Other than that the HD is a good suspect for the problem. If you have a good
backup of the data, go ahead and use Norton with the understanding it may
destroy whatever data is on the drive. I have found in my OS 8 days Norton may
recognize the damaged drive and get it to mount when other utilities failed. If
mounted you can initialize and test it with drive setup and restore the data.
It
maybe a good idea to replace the hard drive with a new(er) one, old ATA cards
and drives aren't too expensive assuming the drive in question is SCSI.
Good luck -- glen
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