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Hahaha.... this thread is awesome.  I have had one of these monitors sitting in my garden shed for several years now.  It's been holding up a pile of gas cans and a bag of concrete mix  :lol: Had no idea they were worth anything or that they were desirable.  I was going to use it for a home...

LC/LCIIs deserve the criticism they get - even with period correct software, they are slow.  But I guess they really served as a glorified word processor in most cases... I just remember being shocked when I walked into 9th grade computer class in 2001 and saw a lab of LCIIs networked together...

Hit up an estate sale today.  Lots of boxes and buckets of stuff - some really nice stuff (Snap-on wrenches, etc) mixed in with old screws, sheetrock tape, etc.)  Looked like an organized garage dumped into buckets.  Anyway.  I spied one red toolbox that I had to look in, and immediately shut it...

If I was dealing with broken clips I'd be real tempted to hot glue the RAM sticks in place.  Just a little dab on both ends would hold it and it's 100% removable, and a LOT easier and safer than replacing the connectors.

My 512k was upgraded to Plus specs, I'd probably undo that if I ran across a 512k board/400k drive but it's just parts swapping at that point.  I don't know if I'd go as far as undoing permanent upgrades just to downgrade... what's done is done is my MO.

Long time before POST is normal, especially if you've got a decent amount of memory installed... it's just performing a memory check.  Mine take forever; they have 768MB.  If you don't want to wait, you can hit Command, Control, Power right after the chime and it will skip the memory check. See...

You should be able to use any ROM version on any board...it is really only relevant to the IDE bus. Maybe see what your jumpers are set to on the CD and HDD... IDE is very simple... you can do master, slave, or cable select, with a maximum of two devices per channel normally but only one per...

What does your IDE setup look like?  Single drives per channel or multiple?  What ROM revision do you have?  I'm assuming you don't have any SCSI devices installed in the system? Rev A ROMs are limited to one IDE device per channel... B and C are not.   These things are really reliable, well...

Just curious... could it be a stuck key on the keyboard?  Have you tried a different keyboard or no keyboard at all?

No prob!  Thanks for helping me clean out my basement ;)

I ran into the image corruption deal with the 'Garden download too but I just disabled error checking when I mounted the images with Disk Copy... all four images mounted correctly, the software installed and it seemed to work fine.  I'd guess that Disk Copy think they're corrupted but they're...

My LaserWriter 12/640PS works on damn near any OS... if I can't connect to it through Ethernet, I can use serial... I can print to it from Windows 10 or Mac OS 7 or anything in between.  Very flexible printer.  

I honestly don't know.  I imagine there are drivers that will work in 8.6, less likely in 8.5, much less likely in 8.1.  ATI drivers have some quirks, especially if you get into flahed PC video cards and stuff like that. All that said, I can't imagine many scenarios where you would want to run...

My favorite upgrades for a beige G3 are a USB card, 10/100 ethernet, and a faster video card (Radeon 7000 is easy to find and inexpensive.)  That will use up all of your PCI slots.  I have IDE 120GB hard drives in both of mine, via the onboard controller.  SCSI2SD using the onboard SCSI...

I kinda skimmed this so maybe I missed something, but have you tried 9.2.2?  Just curious if that might be more compatible with your SATA card, or any storage device, for that matter.  I guess I have just never seen a reason to run anything older than 9.2.2 on a G3. FWIW, both of my G3s came...

Overclocking it will help.  It made a dramatic difference on mine.  You will not find any benefits from additional memory other than bragging rights.  As Cory said, a VRAM upgrade would be nice if you don't already have it. Outside of those things... realistic expectations of what it is capable...

I just read through a couple articles on the xlr8yourmac site (via archive.org....) that seem to confirm that the beige G3 tower does in fact use an ATX power supply and the motherboard jumper is set to PS/2 power supply... the desktop G3s are set to Mac and have a different PSU. I'd just...

Try removing the logic board, reseating everything, and cleaning the edge connector.  My LC630 requires that step at least once every time I change a component, has been like that for years.  I think something in the edge connector circuitry is a little flaky but once it works it will continue...

Yeah... I tried a variety with no success... See my previous post. I don't think I have version 5.1.6 to try but none of the others worked in both environments.

These things seem to need to pass the memory test before a PRAM reset is allowed... Hence why it's not working on the first power cycle before you get video.  That's my suspicion anyway. I'd also try removing and reseating EVERYTHING connected to the logic board except the CPU. Clean the edge...