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thats what i thought too! but when i overwrite the mac os rom from the default installation with the one from the custom greek cd the g3 does load the cards! its very strange indeed as its a old world machine. anyway i'm using the restore installation made for a g4 machine and it works just...

i have a mouse connected and a usb stick to check both HID and USB Mass storage support, and an external hard drive on the firewire card. ive also tried a custom installation for this particular macintosh checking the usb support and the firewire support but nothing happens.... i think it has...

its 9.2.2 international retail,i have also tried 9.1 international retail but no luck. on the contraty most custom restore cds do work when i istall the extentions

Hello 68kmla-ers Recenty i purchaced a Beige desktop G3 and im trying to install a pci usb and a pci firewire card to expand it. when im restoring from a 9.1 G4 (greek localized) cd, both cards work fine. But when im trying to install from a retail generic cd no matter what extensions i use i...

Thanks for the reply!!!! i will try it there....i have downloaded various updaters from their site, hope someone works for me! Nikitas

Hello Fellow 68kmlaers :) Im desperately looking for Retrospect backup program for mac os 9, think its version 5 or something. I have a HP SureStore DAT8 backup tape drivers that sits doing nothing and i would like to use it to backup my collection of programms, over the years ive been...

I adore my 4400/200...its kinda the most important macintosh in my life, it is the reason i met the love of my life :p but apart from this, ok its a bit ugly in comparison to other "plastic case" macs! nevertheless ive never had a single problem with it eventhought i never treated it the best...

yes i noticed tha the getstal has changed and assumed that must have been the problem... Those two CPs gave me the solution thanks!!!!!! Nikitas

Hello there, i ve just overclocked my lc 475 from 25Mhz to 33Mhz with the resistor swap trick... (of course installed a cpu cooler with fan taken from an old 486 pc) The machine boots fine through the cds but it wont let me install any operating system neither system 7.6 nor mac os 8 saying it...

Found the cure!!!! hurray! replaced the C2 cap and fixed the sound issue.... also replaced tha C10 and fixed the startup issue... Im sure all the rest capacitors r damaged and i could definitely see some corrosion around those "vomiting" capapacitors but the machine works for now. I will...

-Tho polarity of the capacitors is correct its quite clear on the caps which is negative. -As for the electrolytic goo, it would certainly shortcircuit everything around. -I cleaned it with a solution to clean pcbs and then as nothing happened put the mb in the dish washer (crazy idea but ive...

First of all its a pleasure to see such a forum with 68k lovers...i thought we were under extinction! [:D] ]'> To the point... No chime, not powering up.... i replaced all four capacitors with new! Still no chime throu the speaker but i can hear it (low volume) through the audio out at...