I suspect I have a corrupt system and need to do a reinstall, but figured I ask here in case someone else has seen this and has an easier fix.
I was experimenting with various hacked PCI cards last night. Install them. Boot the G3. Look at ASP. Shut down.
Now, when I boot in OS 9.1 I get the grey Welcome to Macintosh screen. Then the background appears and the progress bar with the Welcome to Macintosh rectangle. The progress bar make a little bit of progress and then the machine locks up. I can see the moment it locks up by wiggling the mouse and watching with the cursor either stops moving or disappears altogether.
No extensions icons appear. It's earlier than that.
However, it booted a few times by holding down the Shift key. Other times, it didn't help.
Booting into OSX (10.2.8) also locks up after the screen goes from gray with spinning thingy to blue.
That kind of suggests a hardware problem. But I've removed the experimental cards. Tried zapping PRAM. Held down the CUDA switch with it unplugged and no battery installed.
The only PCI card remaining is an Acard 6280M which supports the three hard drives.
It makes me wonder if the logic board suddenly decided it needs to be recapped in the middle of my experiments. It was working super-reliably until last night. Sigh.
I was experimenting with various hacked PCI cards last night. Install them. Boot the G3. Look at ASP. Shut down.
Now, when I boot in OS 9.1 I get the grey Welcome to Macintosh screen. Then the background appears and the progress bar with the Welcome to Macintosh rectangle. The progress bar make a little bit of progress and then the machine locks up. I can see the moment it locks up by wiggling the mouse and watching with the cursor either stops moving or disappears altogether.
No extensions icons appear. It's earlier than that.
However, it booted a few times by holding down the Shift key. Other times, it didn't help.
Booting into OSX (10.2.8) also locks up after the screen goes from gray with spinning thingy to blue.
That kind of suggests a hardware problem. But I've removed the experimental cards. Tried zapping PRAM. Held down the CUDA switch with it unplugged and no battery installed.
The only PCI card remaining is an Acard 6280M which supports the three hard drives.
It makes me wonder if the logic board suddenly decided it needs to be recapped in the middle of my experiments. It was working super-reliably until last night. Sigh.