Hi All,
I have picked up a PowerMac G3 this weekend from eBay. It booted into MacOS 9.2 but crashed every time I got to the desktop with no input through mouse or keyboard possible. Booting from a 9.2 CD did let me go into System Profiler to verify all the hardware was present as p[er auction..
So I got to work this morning to clean out what seemed like 20 years worth of grime and dust from the machine.
Was very happy with how well this turned out - however upon completing the re-assembley I run into a problem: The machine would not display any picture on the monitor.
After some trial and error I worked out that I could get a picture - but only if I disconnect the IDE bus for the CD-ROM and Zip drive. Individually disconnecting any of the device made no difference - only with the IDE ribbon cable disconnected - would the machine boot into MacOS. Unfortunately I still have the problem that MacOS crashes every time I boot from the (SCSI) hard drive.
Any advise how to get the CD ROM / IDE bus working again?
Many thanks.
I have picked up a PowerMac G3 this weekend from eBay. It booted into MacOS 9.2 but crashed every time I got to the desktop with no input through mouse or keyboard possible. Booting from a 9.2 CD did let me go into System Profiler to verify all the hardware was present as p[er auction..
So I got to work this morning to clean out what seemed like 20 years worth of grime and dust from the machine.
Was very happy with how well this turned out - however upon completing the re-assembley I run into a problem: The machine would not display any picture on the monitor.
After some trial and error I worked out that I could get a picture - but only if I disconnect the IDE bus for the CD-ROM and Zip drive. Individually disconnecting any of the device made no difference - only with the IDE ribbon cable disconnected - would the machine boot into MacOS. Unfortunately I still have the problem that MacOS crashes every time I boot from the (SCSI) hard drive.
Any advise how to get the CD ROM / IDE bus working again?
Many thanks.
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