I have a B & W Mac G3-350 with 768 MB RAM and a bunch of hard drives, some ATA, some Firewire, and a small SCSI.
I'm running OS 9.2.2 off one ATA drive and it's been fine... as fine as OS 9 can be I suppose.. no problems and I'll have to continue this way for now.
I recently tried to install Tiger on the machine and it was nothing but headaches. I installed a 300 GB hard drive on the ATA bus with the DVD-ROM. Using Hard Disk Speedtools and the Hi-Cap driver, this disk is safely partitioned and fully accessible in all OS's on this machine. I then Carbon Copy Cloned my OS 10.2.8 disk over to the new 300 GB drive's first partition.
Long story short... I can't boot this machine off any of the 10.4 disks at all. Just Kernel Panics or freezes. I tried both the Tiger DVD and the CD versions. I even tried XPostFacto and eventually got into the Tiger installer but it freezes shortly after.
So I gave up on 10.4 and just upgraded the cloned 10.2.8 drive to 10.3 instead. This worked fine without problems.
So at this point, among a few other things, I have...
- a OS hard drive on the main ATA bus (working fine for years)
- a OS 10.2.8 hard drive on the main ATA bus (working fine for over a year)
- a OS 10.3 hard disk on the DVD-ROM ATA bus (worked for a day or two)
Today, I tried to boot into 10.3 and I get the "prohibitory sign", so I quickly gave up. Then I booted into 10.2.8 and got a Kernel Panic within 5 minutes where the screen goes slightly darker and it tells me to restart. This is very strange since I never had problems with 10.2.8 on this disk drive.
I then used a OS X.3.6 boot CD with a couple utilities and started up on that. I did successfully repair permissions and Disk Utility said this drive was ok. Again, Kernel Panic during one of the Tech Tool tests though.
So back into 10.2.8... and I can't go 3 minutes without a Kernel Panic!!!
Here's what I've done..
1. Juggled memory chips. Tried them one at a time in various slots. ( 2- 256 MB and 2- 128 MB )
2. Removed all external Firewire & USB devices
3. Removed my internal SCSI drive and SCSI card
4. Re-seated the processor chip
5. blew out some dust
6. completely removed the ATA drive on the DVD-ROM bus
7. zapped the PRAM
8. reset the CUDA
The machine is stripped down and nearly back to stock and I don't know what else to do.
I've been running this as a dual boot machine with OS 9.2.2 and 10.2.8 for a couple years with nothing too major. Here I thought I've have to settle on 10.3 for a while instead of Tiger and now I can't even run any version OS X at all!
Any suggestions?
Thank-you!
I'm running OS 9.2.2 off one ATA drive and it's been fine... as fine as OS 9 can be I suppose.. no problems and I'll have to continue this way for now.
I recently tried to install Tiger on the machine and it was nothing but headaches. I installed a 300 GB hard drive on the ATA bus with the DVD-ROM. Using Hard Disk Speedtools and the Hi-Cap driver, this disk is safely partitioned and fully accessible in all OS's on this machine. I then Carbon Copy Cloned my OS 10.2.8 disk over to the new 300 GB drive's first partition.
Long story short... I can't boot this machine off any of the 10.4 disks at all. Just Kernel Panics or freezes. I tried both the Tiger DVD and the CD versions. I even tried XPostFacto and eventually got into the Tiger installer but it freezes shortly after.
So I gave up on 10.4 and just upgraded the cloned 10.2.8 drive to 10.3 instead. This worked fine without problems.
So at this point, among a few other things, I have...
- a OS hard drive on the main ATA bus (working fine for years)
- a OS 10.2.8 hard drive on the main ATA bus (working fine for over a year)
- a OS 10.3 hard disk on the DVD-ROM ATA bus (worked for a day or two)
Today, I tried to boot into 10.3 and I get the "prohibitory sign", so I quickly gave up. Then I booted into 10.2.8 and got a Kernel Panic within 5 minutes where the screen goes slightly darker and it tells me to restart. This is very strange since I never had problems with 10.2.8 on this disk drive.
I then used a OS X.3.6 boot CD with a couple utilities and started up on that. I did successfully repair permissions and Disk Utility said this drive was ok. Again, Kernel Panic during one of the Tech Tool tests though.
So back into 10.2.8... and I can't go 3 minutes without a Kernel Panic!!!
Here's what I've done..
1. Juggled memory chips. Tried them one at a time in various slots. ( 2- 256 MB and 2- 128 MB )
2. Removed all external Firewire & USB devices
3. Removed my internal SCSI drive and SCSI card
4. Re-seated the processor chip
5. blew out some dust
6. completely removed the ATA drive on the DVD-ROM bus
7. zapped the PRAM
8. reset the CUDA
The machine is stripped down and nearly back to stock and I don't know what else to do.
I've been running this as a dual boot machine with OS 9.2.2 and 10.2.8 for a couple years with nothing too major. Here I thought I've have to settle on 10.3 for a while instead of Tiger and now I can't even run any version OS X at all!
Any suggestions?
Thank-you!