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PowerMac G3 B&W Boot Problems

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msheldrick

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Mar 23, 2008
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I'm trying to install Tiger on my B&W G3 but each time it boots from the cd it gets to the spinning wheel with the apple logo and just freezes, is there anything i can do? my Firmware is up to date. also if i need to reset anything like PRAM etc; can you please tell me how to


Thanks in Advance.
 
The same thing happened to me when I tried to install Panther on my G1 or G2 (whatever came with OS 8.6). At the time, I simply assumed that my system was just not up to scratch. But I have run Tiger on a G3 before. I have no idea what's happening.
 
I Have the Black one and if it helps it is a Revision 2 Logic Board 450mhz G3 with 512MB RAM also trying to install panther has the same problem and i have reset the PRAM & NVRAM & Replaced the PRAM Battery but to no avail.
 
I Have the Tiger CD's and it is a DVD-RAM Drive but i've tried multiple drives and no result i just have the frosen spinning wheel below the apple logo when it's trying to start the installer (I'm not upgrading from OS 9)
 
DVD-RAM Drive probably means its third party. I've had problems in the past getting some drives to boot Apple media. Do you have the original CD-ROM or DVD-ROM around, by chance? Or even another drive? You may have better luck with a different one.
 
im_to_hyper said:
DVD-RAM Drive probably means its third party. I've had problems in the past getting some drives to boot Apple media. Do you have the original CD-ROM or DVD-ROM around, by chance? Or even another drive? You may have better luck with a different one.
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the original drive had no difference at all unfortunately...
 
The original drive is for sure a DVD-ROM, just to make sure? A Tiger DVD won't boot from a CD-ROM for sure. Do you have any older media around, say a 10.3 CD or DVD? Is your disc scratched?
 
im_to_hyper said:
The original drive is for sure a DVD-ROM, just to make sure? A Tiger DVD won't boot from a CD-ROM for sure. Do you have any older media around, say a 10.3 CD or DVD? Is your disc scratched?
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It's a DVD-RAM Drive and i Have the Tiger CD's and i've tried Panther both discs are spotless they are the retail copies and nothing works


and now the machine won't boot anymore
 
you will need to find some ware to download Mac os 9 then download the free updates from apple and upgrade it to 9.2.2 then download the latest firmware for you system i had the boot problem until i install the firmware now 10.4.11 works 100%:apple:
 
The G3 is now up in Mac Heaven, it started rebooting over and over after my little cousin got his hands on it :\ Ho Hum....
 

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