Okay some great stuff here and from the other posters as well. Most of this stuff I have knowledge of as it is similar to PCs. I tried booting an 8.5 boot CD by pressing the "C" key to no avail. So I got curious and removed the motherboard and noticed the empty ram slots which means there is only the on-board 8 MB. It looks like the Mac doesn't have enough memory to keep going.
I thought about the G3 upgrade to the cache slot but I don't think it will work with Yellow Dog Linux which I was just going to try since it is free to download. Looks like I will need some more RAM and hopefully things will come together. Can I download the boot floppy files from Apple? Regards, Thomas -----Original Message----- From: Chris Tucker At 10:37 PM -0800 1/1/04, Thomas Ainlay wrote: Well, could be a corrupted System Extension or Control Panel. Try rebooting it and holding down the SHIFT key and see if that allows the mac to startup all the way. -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
