Re: Installing 8.1 on a Beige G3

[Michael Kronsteiner <alphamike%gmx.at@localhost>]

Sorry snipped this a bit together, its getting hard to read.


> I get one of these while booting, and no further errors after that.
>
> > Also about that:
> > > Things I'd try:
> > > - make sure the master and slave devices are jumpered correctly (
> > > some
> > >   drives have a 'slave present' jumper )
> > So you're saying to make every drive a master?
> > > - try with only the boot drive present on the 1st IDE bus
> > I've read a bit of the service manual and it says that that would
> > be the
> > connector closest to the IO shield, right?
>
> I *think* so, IIRC they shipped with a harddisk on the 1st port and
> the
> CDROM on the 2nd.
>

thats true if you consider connector 3 the one for the mainboard (i
always seen this other way round, 1 is mainboard, 2 and 3 are slave and
master respectively. new cables are usually labeled and color coded
anyway


> > reportedly overclocked. It says 266mhz on the label, but the guy I
> > got
> > this from said that it was pushed up to 333mhz.

was it a replacement cpu card or has the 266 cpu been pushed to 333Mhz?
this might explain a couple of problems. if its simply "overclocked"
and not timing-adjusted to the board, often peripherals fail with
timeouts (not restricted to anything - i once pushed a 433 pc so far
that sound stopped working AT ALL. if you really want to failure-dig,
first get your system in original spec. cpu, rams. also rams that
apparently "work" might behave very funny. on one of my last systems i
had the option to change whole frontside bus, which is easy (and you
should be easy on that aswell!) and keeps all components on the board
at least in sync. though serial and paralell ports might develop
interesting baudrates (depends on device)

i also have no clue how picky macs are about idd hdd s.

my really last bet would be the mainboard. anything leaked in there?
(usually the battery...)


hope this helps anybody.

have a nice day,

also a Michael ^^

> >  I'm saying
> > reportedly, cause apparently to overclock this thing you have to do
> > some fiddling with the jumpers on the motherboard. I've looked
> > there
> > and it's equipped with the white short-all-things mega jumper shown
> > in the manual. I'll reimage the disk to get Mac OS back and check
> > it
> > with the System Profiler, but yeah, does this change anything?
>
> Mine's a 1st generation G3, the CPU sits in a small circuit board
> which
> is plugged into the CPU socket, reportedly runs at 333MHz. Doesn't
> seem
> to cause any problems.
> And contrary to the manual, 256MB DIMMs work as well.
>
> > Also thanks for all your help Michael, really appreciate it.
>
> No problem
>
> have fun
> Michael