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Well... good news!  I was quite surprised that all four of these fired right up.  Three power supplies were dead, two hard drives spin up and then spin down, one won't spin at all, one works fine.  All of the logic boards have some rust on/around the output ports and all are filthy and need to...

I keep thinking I'm done, I'll never score anything again, it's all over... and then I run across something cool. First score was actually like a few months ago, I picked up a IIcx, a couple small Apple monitors and some peripherals, all unknown condition for 10 bucks.  IIcx was DOA, battery...

I can't imagine why it would be worth making 4MB SIMMs.  Even 16MB SIMMs are not *that* expensive, relative to what a lot of us spend on this hobby.  4x4MB sticks are readily available on eBay for less than $30... not worth the hassle to roll your own. It is a cool project though and certainly...

It would be a shame to trash the logic boards in those, especially since they can be used with ATX power supplies.  The cases I can understand, I have pitched a lot that were falling apart too.  These were just such nice machines and great for hackintosh purposes.  They were also not known for...

I have had dozens of pizza box LCs of every variant over the years - the ONLY one that has a PRAM battery quirk is the 475.  Turn it on, wait for the chime, flip it off and back on again quickly and you're good to go.  NONE have done anything past simply not holding the date/time/etc.  None. I...

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...