Hello, I've been having issues with my B&W Power Macintosh G3 Rev. 2. It's a 400mhz unit that has it's CPU overclocked to 450mhz. I installed Tiger 10.4.6 from DVD to a 128GB SSD (connected to a flashed Sil3112 SATA PCI card). The first half of the SSD is for OS 9 and the other half is for OS X. I got past the initial setup, but after launching Apple System Profiler, and checking all the hardware specs, the system kernel panicked. It didn't spit out the log info; it just gave me the generic "You need to restart your computer message". This happens seemingly at random, and it's not the first time that this has happened. At one time, I was updating the G3 to 10.4.11 and it does the same kernel panic that I just experienced, bricking that OS X install. Rev 1 B&W's (the ones with a faulty IDE controller) are known to be picky with memory, and I have maxed out the RAM at 1GB. Mac OS 9.2.2 (the universal disc from MacOS9Lives) is stable. Could the RAM be at fault even on a Rev 2 board? Does the SATA card have to be in a specifc PCI slot? Defective drive cable(s)?
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B&W G3 (Rev 2) Tiger Woes, Possible RAM Fault?
- Thread starter CD5150
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It could be faulty/dirty RAM. It could be the overclock. It could be a genuine hardware failure.
Knock the machine down to 400MHz and see what happens. Run it on a single RAM stick, if you have more than one. If still troublesome, see, if possible, if it works off the onboard ATA controller.
Knock the machine down to 400MHz and see what happens. Run it on a single RAM stick, if you have more than one. If still troublesome, see, if possible, if it works off the onboard ATA controller.
It's been overclocked @ 450mhz for months. No issues as far as I remember, until now.
My Rev 1 B&W G3 has 768 MB of RAM. If I ever upgraded it to 1 GB then that 256 MB stick is lying around here somewhere.
It has a 1 GHz G4 upgrade so the bus is at 66 MHz instead of 100 MHz. I don't remember if I had 1 GB before or after this CPU upgrade. I should try to find the receipts.
It has a 1 GHz G4 upgrade so the bus is at 66 MHz instead of 100 MHz. I don't remember if I had 1 GB before or after this CPU upgrade. I should try to find the receipts.
