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^^nah, time for a custom case mod [:D] ]'> How about Lego, or Meccano? The possibilities are endless, you coulod have great fun as well and end up with somethhing truly unique.

^^interesting point there, I actually had the same sort of problem when I stuck a 128 in my 6400. No video, so I started up with the onboard to check all the drivers were installed and rebooted using the ATI card and it worked. I just figured it was 'one of those things' and never realized it...

There was a Mac edition voodoo 5500 PCI and you can get the drivers from the same link I posted to the voodoo 3 ones earlier. I think there may also have been a Mac Radeon 8500 PCI but I wouldn't swear to it. The 9200 may be too powerful if you are running a 604e cpu, even the lower end G3's...

Actually it will run Crysis link

That's a pretty good overclock, those G4's run fairly warm, something that may not be apparent if you haven't really pushed the machine. It would probably be worth removing the heat sink and applying some good quality thermal paste and (if you have space) stick in a PCI slot fan for some extra...

^^There is a Mac compatible 7000, no hacking needed. It is less powerful then the Radeon Mac Edition (yes, I meant 7200, sorry( and lacks hardware T&L but it's much quicker then the 128 series. The 9200 is the fastest PCI card available for your machine but it may be overkill in a Power...

Radeon 7000 or Radeon Mac Edition (7500). Both work with System 7 (with these drivers, work fine under 8 and 9) through to OS X. I can't find ATI's official old drivers anywhere. For older/cheaper cards the the Rage 128 is probably as low as you want to go. Or, you could get one of the old...

You can download the Mac ROM from the Mac Elite: http://themacelite.wikidot.com/wikidownloads2 scroll down a bit

I didn't secure a pci card properly in an old G3 once and it fell out whilst working (or actually when I moved it with a little too much force) :-/ Farewell MoBo.

Shot in the dark mode: Have you tried the adapter with anything else? If the battery was dead and the adapter didn't work that would explain it. Unlikely but possible.

Depends on the price really, I love mine and I've managed to pimp it hugely so I'd say yes.

^^digging around it looks like the floppy port will only run on systems below 8.6, if the iMac has had the firmware update applied for OS X then that too could be a factor.

^^sounds like a hardware rather then software problem.

first thought, duff RAM/slot, try one memory stick at a time and see what happens or if there is only one then try a different stick. If that doesn't work then I'd suspect a knackered motherboard.

^^better, you can get a 1Ghz G4. With the Alti Vec plugin photoshop will scream. http://www.sonnettech.com/product/crescendo_pci.html

^^When I upgraded my 9500 to a G3 I had a problem like this, turned out the CPU needed re-seating. May be worth a shot. If that does nothing then the usual rigmarole of re-seating the graphics card and checking for dodgy RAM applies. As an afterthought is the hard disc spinning up? It could...

The problem here is you are using a new OS with high overheads on a very old CPU and clapped out graphics card. Tiger should give you a much smoother ride.

9.1 will run on a 6200, I ran it on my 5200 - 40Mb for..oh..about 20 mins before the agonising speed made me switch down to 8. Seriously mate, even the window opening speed was glacial, really don't bother.

These guys stock a fair bit and may be able to give you a price, they also do repairs. They are horrifically expensive, but if it's for a claim thats a good thing [;)] ]'>

It should boot ok as blixanz says, the OS needs to be on the first partition of the drive which must be under 8GB or your system will become very ubnstable. Try installing the drive and then booting from the OS CD, check the HD is ok and repair if needed, then reformat/partition if necesssary...