meall
Well-known member
Hi all,
It's been a while for me here, but still active in my man cave!
Recently I got my hands on a tower beige G3, and wanted to give back my desktop beige G3 to a good house. I made sure the tower worked fine for me, and then got my hands dirty on the desktop to prepare it for resale.
So far, it is giving me lots of problem, and I cannot figure out why. I tried installing Mac OS 9.2.2, but this one refuses to boot. In the startup sequence, when it try begin loading the extensions, the system cash with a dialog box on screen that do not even get far enough to display a message in it. If I copy (not install) an OS 9.0 or 9.1 folder to the boot disk, sometimes it boots normally, sometimes in hangs at the extension time of load.
The disk I'm using is a 1.6Gb Apple IDE probably removed from a failed Performa. If I place the same disk in the tower, same system installation, no issue.
The desktop have 256 Mb of RAM, and pretty much the standard stuff there, ZIP, IDE CD-ROM, floppy.
Anyone can help me figure out what is wrong with this machine?
Thank you
It's been a while for me here, but still active in my man cave!
Recently I got my hands on a tower beige G3, and wanted to give back my desktop beige G3 to a good house. I made sure the tower worked fine for me, and then got my hands dirty on the desktop to prepare it for resale.
So far, it is giving me lots of problem, and I cannot figure out why. I tried installing Mac OS 9.2.2, but this one refuses to boot. In the startup sequence, when it try begin loading the extensions, the system cash with a dialog box on screen that do not even get far enough to display a message in it. If I copy (not install) an OS 9.0 or 9.1 folder to the boot disk, sometimes it boots normally, sometimes in hangs at the extension time of load.
The disk I'm using is a 1.6Gb Apple IDE probably removed from a failed Performa. If I place the same disk in the tower, same system installation, no issue.
The desktop have 256 Mb of RAM, and pretty much the standard stuff there, ZIP, IDE CD-ROM, floppy.
Anyone can help me figure out what is wrong with this machine?
Thank you