Guys I have spent the last few weeks working on my iMac Flower Power G3 so much of your advice has been followed here too! Thanks
However, did anyone caution (I couldnt see it) that to go from OS 9 to X you need to upgrade te firmware! otherwise it may simply die and not boot (I have one of those too!) Since I have a Pismo G3 Powerbook which I have had for some years I had already been the RAM upgrade, OS upgrade (to 10.4.11) and tried several Browsers - yes - Ten4Fox is an option but if oyu have an older version of Safari that will work too. I am playing with using Mail too since the browser route to gmail is very painful. So I have done most of this on the iMac Flowerpower G3 600 - I cannot find my 10.4 Disk and am investigating how I might be able to create a dmg from the Pismo that would boot - I have FW and a working slot drive. I have found an early version of Safari for this which works pretty well too and upped iPhoto and iTunes to versions just above the OS X 10.3.9 I am currently running. My purpose is to use this machine to convert cassettes and LPs to MP3 and have found with lots of help early versions of Audacity and FinalVinyl and it happens iMic will obviate the need to rely on the jack sockets.... I will follow the monolingual and adblock approach. Any advice always welcome....btw: I heard a wisper that when your iMac doesnt want to boot off the int HDD but the switch light goes on and of and if your PRAM battery has been replaced - TRY BOOTING FROM SYSTEM 9 CD in the drive or in an EXT FW Drive...it is said that sometimes it will start! Im going to try! Colin in Cambs UK On Friday, April 10, 2015 at 4:12:51 AM UTC+1, Mark Sokolovsky wrote: > > If you're serious about getting this machine up and running, I may offer > to send you x2 256MB sticks of SDRAM, free of charge. I have dozens of > modules laying around, most wouldn't ever see use. It isn't the full 1GB, > but it's better than 128MB. > > On Thu, Apr 9, 2015 at 7:22 PM, GMail Valter Psicof <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Il giorno 08/04/15 23.24, "Mark My Word" ha scritto: >> >> > So it appears to have 128 meg of system RAM. I think the CPU is either >> 500 >> > or 600 MHz from the Apple information that I can find online. >> >> A 500 or 600 MHz CPU is not fast, but can be acceptable for OSX Tiger. >> I did design work with a 667 MHz G4 years ago, and it was ok. >> >> I'm rather doubtful about the 128 MB Ram, though. That amount should >> barely >> be enough for the OS itself (if ever), making any task painfully slow >> because of continuous data swapping between Ram and HD. >> I have an 867 MHz PowerBook G4 with Tiger installed and 512 MB Ram, and I >> think the OS gets around 256 MB Ram by itself. >> >> I think this G3 iMac accepts up to 1 GB Ram. If possible, upgrade it to >> 512 >> MB at least, and it should work fine (albeit slow-ish) with OSX Tiger. >> >> From the info you gave us, I believe this is an iMac G3/500 DV SE: >> http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/imac/specs/imac_dv_se_500.html >> >> HTH, cheers, >> Valter >> >> >> -- >> -- >> You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a >> group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. >> The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/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] >> <javascript:> >> To leave this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "iMac Group" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Sent from Viper Net > > -- -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/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] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
