From: chrisclose
Subject: Re: [PRODIG] Computer problems
Sorry to jump in with my own case query as I have no solution to your
problem but I have an old G3 which has caused endless problems.
It has had two new hard drives a new logic board and has had the entire hard
disk scrubbed to eliminate faults- unsuccessfully!
The second company I took it to replaced the HD (again) and it worked OK for
a while. Then numerous error type 10, 2, and 3 messages occurred. I ran disk
warrior (having previously used Norton and) Everything froze and it had to
go back to the repair shop. I have recently purchased a G4 and wanted to
keep the G3 for admin only. Everything I needed has been transferred to the
G4 but the G3 will not accept OSX and crashes regularly with OS 9.2.
(sometimes from start up, sometimes mid program - a common error message is
"Damage to the Volume Bit Map" - Running Norton helps temporarily. I have
read with interest the comments about Norton but if anyone out there has a
solution I'd be delighted to hear from them.
I don't want to spend any more money than I already have but the company I
deal with have said it may be a faulty processor. I have taken the ram cards
out individually and it still falls over, It has had two new hard drives and
logic board but there is still a problem. The machine did run for a year or
so after the first new HD and logic board were replaced (although for some
reason it took several hours for the company to load an operating system).
Chris
G3?
You most likely require a firmware update:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86117&SaveKCWindowURL=http%3A%2F%2Fkbase.info.apple.com%2Fcgi-bin%2FWebObjects%2Fkbase.woa%2Fwa%2FSaveKCToHomePage&searchMode=Assisted&kbhost=kbase.info.apple.com&showButton=false&randomValue=100&showSurvey=false&sessionID=anonymous|164589446
or go to: Apple/support/downloads and do a search on: G3 firmware OSX
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