you need to buy a PRAM battery before trying this. it may be the issue with booting. if you wont buy the battery , abandon the project. they only last 3 years, not 11.
no mac or that era will run reliably with a dead battery and startup issues are a common symptom. any PATA drive will work, but jumper settings and master/slave positions must be strictly adhered to. dont spend more than $30 on this $10 machine. better off with a sawtooth G4, which can run 10.5 with leopardassist. thats a $30 machine. USB drives will not boot on this machine. dont quote me but i believe this is the only firewire mac machine you cannot boot from firewire. SCSI works nicely with the correct card and drive. On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:56 PM, applewho <[email protected]> wrote: > I have B&W G3, rev1, , it seems that the motherboard is good because > when turned on the light come on on the motherboard and it chimes. It > has a SCSI board installed on it, ATA/133 PCI card installed, and ati > graphics card. There are 4 memory cards installed. Problem: HDs. I > have a few HDs laying around the house that I would like to see if > they work, they worked on the G3 at one time. I have transported the > G3 across country and now am trying to figure out if I can use this > machine while I save up for a G5 destop and take some of the pressure > and time off my Macbook for video stuff. I want to know if it is > worth my time and pocket to try to get the G3 working for a little bit > of cash. I purchased a $6 usb keyboard online and am using a emachine > monitor. I have tried hooking up the HDs to the PCI card and then > booted but nothing, while the HDs light up, I get nothing on the > monitor.PLs help, I have put OS9 in the CD tray and when installing > pressed "C"l to try and boot up to the CD but so far nothing. PLS > help. is there any way to try to see if the drives will work. I do > have external drives that I use with my laptop, one is a usb and the > orther is a FW HD. both of these drives work with the laptop. But I > have not tried to see if they work with the G3. Lost at home. :( > > -- > 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 > -- 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
