Mod_Man_Extreme wrote:This crazy multi-disc RPG called Mac OS X Installer on my G3 iMac.
It took a while but I finally beat it, the final boss "System Crash & Restart install" was pretty heavy.
Read this in the other post. So how did you get OSX to finally work?
If that screen still flickering, you can hook another monitor in the back.
This was written when the Mac wasn't giving me any issues. Shortly after I installed the 009-05 update to OS X all hell broke loose and the thing finally refused to boot.
My Consoles:
Genesis - Nomad - SegaCD - GameGear - Sega Saturn - Dreamcast - NES - SNES - N64 - Gamecube - Wii - Playstation - PSone & LCD - PS2 - PS3 - Xbox - 3DS
Niode wrote:Send him a dodgy cheque. Make it out to Scammy McScammerson.
CRTGAMER wrote:So still no luck on a fresh install, maybe another inexpensive IDE drive?
I swapped through all of my IDE HDD's and none work, I'm just gonna say the logic board may be going bad or it needs to be seen by a Mac specialist as unless there's some magic fix to my problem I'm pretty much done with it.
My Consoles:
Genesis - Nomad - SegaCD - GameGear - Sega Saturn - Dreamcast - NES - SNES - N64 - Gamecube - Wii - Playstation - PSone & LCD - PS2 - PS3 - Xbox - 3DS
Niode wrote:Send him a dodgy cheque. Make it out to Scammy McScammerson.
CRTGAMER wrote:So still no luck on a fresh install, maybe another inexpensive IDE drive?
I swapped through all of my IDE HDD's and none work, I'm just gonna say the logic board may be going bad or it needs to be seen by a Mac specialist as unless there's some magic fix to my problem I'm pretty much done with it.
Yup, logic board sounds fried. Luckily for you, if you want to shell out about 20 bucks, it's pretty easy to find iMac G3's for cheap.
CRTGAMER wrote:So still no luck on a fresh install, maybe another inexpensive IDE drive?
I swapped through all of my IDE HDD's and none work, I'm just gonna say the logic board may be going bad or it needs to be seen by a Mac specialist as unless there's some magic fix to my problem I'm pretty much done with it.
Yup, logic board sounds fried. Luckily for you, if you want to shell out about 20 bucks, it's pretty easy to find iMac G3's for cheap.
I have an iMac G3 sat outside my house. You can have that for free... Just have to book a plane ticket and a taxi ride from the airport.
Mod_Man_Extreme wrote:Hopefully, I don't really care for the software but the machines are classily designed.
Quiet too, no fans. Only hum of the Hard Drive.
Once you play around with OSX you might be surprised how intuitive it is. Yes my 550MHz iMac is crappy at Youtube videos but runs DVDs just fine. Spyware is never an issue, and converting Docs to PDFs, PDF to JPG, Pic format conversion and right click instant Zip are a snap all built in OSX. Still prefer doing all the CD/DVD burning on the PC since my iMac only has the built in DVD player and lazy to drag out USB DVDR everytime.
