Strange Blue/Whie G4 behavior

[quinterro]

For the last few weeks the built-in ethernet on this little beast has not provided an IP address. Renewing the DHCP lease does nothing as well. I've tried different Cat5 ethernet cables as well.

Any ideas as to why this is occurring and what to do about it?

System specs:

Blue/White G4 with Rev 2 motherboard

896MB RAM (3x256, 1x 128MB)

40GB hard disk

Apple-ROMed DVD drive

USB2/FW400 PCI card

2x Rage 128 PCI video cards

MacOS X 10.4.11

 

[Rodus]

I have read reports in the past of the onboard ethernet for Yosemitie and Yikes (the worst culprits) boards going very wrong, it may be time to get a PCI ethernet card.

I'm assuming that you havent done anything strange software wise. The only other thing I can think of is to give this machine a dedpicated IP rather then receive one from the router.

 

[superpantoufle]

Is the Blue and White PowerMac G4 a previously unknown prototype hidden in Cupertino's labs?

 

[Rodus]

^^I'm guessing, weird Apple prototypes aside, that it's a B&W G3 with a G4 Zif upgrade.

 

[quinterro]

Is the Blue and White PowerMac G4 a previously unknown prototype hidden in Cupertino's labs?

It was originally a Rev 1 G3/350, then the motherboard was replaced with a Rev 2 G3/400. After that the processor was upgraded with a Sonnet Crescendo G4/400.

Nothing strange has been done software-wise. Normally the only thing done with it is iTunes, occasional gaming and web development.

 

[quinterro]

I tried another ethernet cable and it now works. Strangely the one used previously worked at one time as well.

 

[porter]

Strangely the one used previously worked at one time as well.

Entropy always increases.