Powermac G3 B&W

[System7]

This mac has 384mb of ram and a 450mhz G3. Its all stock really, with a 9gb HD and the apple CD drive. Was 5$

 

[System7]

its refusing to boot off of a os 9 cd.

 

[System7]

Well the IDE drive is non apple, so I connected a SCSI Apple CD 300-it wont boot from that either -_-

 

[coius]

is the CD and the HDD both Master (on different busses). The revision 1 boards only supported the drives in master config. Also, you can't use a SCSI CD-ROM on it unless you have a SCSI Card. So check to make sure you aren't putting the IDE connector into the SCS CD-ROM. Not sure if you could kill anything, but I wouldn't try nonetheless. Also, zap the PRAM (You could either press the CUDA button on the board by the PCI Slots, or you can hold down Command (Apple)+Alt/Option+P+R and wait for it to chime 3 times before letting go)

do you get video out of it at all? What slot is the Graphics card in? What Cards are in the PCI Slot? Is the HDD on the primary IDE (Closest to the back of the machine)?

Anyways, try that. If anything, that should get it running! Also, you need to find out whether it is a Revision 1 or 2 board. If it's a revision 1, it's not recommended to run OS X on it because of corruption problems with the IDE Chipset. So make sure you look it up!

 

[System7]

It is a 2.

It has the adaptec SCSI and M Audio Audio Card.

I took a 20gb Drive with OS X and it booted up. I guess OS 9 hates non apple disk drives.

 

[Dog Cow]

G3 will boot OS 9 CD no matter what the CD drive is. Sometimes it will take an extremely long time before it even "notices" the CD, like 2-5 minutes, but it should happen eventually.

Note that I have never been able to boot an OS 9 CD with a DVD drive in the G3.

*has personal experience*