Brett B.
Well-known member
So with that Rev. A ROM... how is your IDE set up? Rev A is limited to one device per channel... I see you mentioned a hard drive, Zip, and CD-ROM... if you haven't already tried this, remove the Zip drive from the equation and have your HD and CD-ROM on separate channels. I don't remember what the jumper settings need to be, single or master may be the safest.
Beige G3s often had SCSI PCI cards and hard drives installed when they had both a CD-ROM and Zip, at least from what I've seen. Both of my towers had Rev A ROMs, IDE CD drives, and 4GB SCSI hard drives, although they were the "server" variant.
As far as the sound goes - try removing the sound/AV card, clean the edge connector off with a soft cloth and reseat it. One of my G3s is very finicky about things being seated just right... bump it wrong and everything needs to be pulled, cleaned and put back together.
Beige G3s often had SCSI PCI cards and hard drives installed when they had both a CD-ROM and Zip, at least from what I've seen. Both of my towers had Rev A ROMs, IDE CD drives, and 4GB SCSI hard drives, although they were the "server" variant.
As far as the sound goes - try removing the sound/AV card, clean the edge connector off with a soft cloth and reseat it. One of my G3s is very finicky about things being seated just right... bump it wrong and everything needs to be pulled, cleaned and put back together.