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NickBurns - There are also ZIFs available on eBay that are usually cheaper than on otherworldcomputing.com, like a 266, 300 or 350 MHz. I've also gotten RAM from eBay. You just have to make sure you get the low-profile PC66 or PC100 DIMMs - regular PC66 or PC100 DIMMs are too tall and the...

It's a beige G3 Desktop. You can run up to 768 MB of RAM, add a firewire card, upgrade your hard drive, replace the 24x CD-ROM with a DVD-ROM(only if you add an upgraded video card) or CD-RW and pop in an upgraded ZIF (www.otherworldcomputing.com has a list of compatible ZIFs). I ran 10.2.4...

What size hard drive are you trying to install 10.2 on? If it's 8 GB or larger, you have to partition the drive. OS X MUST be installed fully within the first 8 GB of a drive on the beige G3, which means your partition must be 1. The first partition on the drive, and 2. Less than 8 GB

Have you reset the PRAM/CUDA? Try that if not. Are both monitors still attached? Try removing one. Also, download DIMM First Aid and check your RAM (in OS 9) from here If you have an error, pull that chip and try again.

The first thing to do is try to select the cd in the startup disk control panel (first copy the updated version from the install cd) and reboot. If that doesn't work, the other option is to detach all non-stock items from the G4 and try it again. Sometimes even items that are OS X compatible...

Damn. The reason I asked is 'cause I'm having the same kind of issue - see my screenshot. If I open a picture in Quicktime, the colors are fine. In Photoshop, Preview, etc. the colors look like this. Some of the icons on the System Preferences main page are messed up, most are not...

What is your screen resolution/#s of colors setting?

All Macs still come with a built-in 56k modem. Attach a phone line and voilá, you have a fax machine. Regardless of internet connection - broadband or dialup. So yes, it will work if you have broadband. I do it all the time, except I have to use programs from other companies. With Panther, I...

Kensington MouseWorks didn't work too well for me, either. Mail and Safari both worked fine for me. I had to go back to my 10.2.6 install (put Panther on the internal SCSI drive) because it refused to load the extensions for my 80 GB drive, which hangs from an Acard ultra ata-66 pci card...

Try this memory tester instead: DIMM First Aid

This appears to be an issue for lots of people, as this article on the MacFixit site shows: MacFixit and PDF

Try XPostFacto: http://eshop.macsales.com/OSXCenter/XPostFacto/framework.cfm?page=XPostFacto.html It can help install OS X on supported Macs that have troubles with the install as well as unsupported Macs. Good luck. My beige G3/300 had an ATA hard drive like Jim Miller's, so I can't help...

I have a VST iMac floppy here at work, which Apple System Profiler will see just fine. But if I leave it plugged in and insert a floppy, it won't mount. I have to insert a floppy then plug in the drive - it works fine on OS 8 & 9 and PC-formatted floppies. Just VERY slow.

First, relax. It happened to many people with the 10.2.5 update (including me). Second, back up if you want to, just in case, but you're not going to overwrite your stuff. Really. Third, boot from your jag cd. Select your boot drive and click options (lower left). Select archive and...

Download Cocktail 2.1 from VersionTracker or MacUpdate and update the prebinding - that seems to help with processor usage. Mine drops considerably after I run that, which I do after every major install. That may help the jumpy mouse thing.

Hold down Apple + S keys at startup, this will get you into single user mode. At the prompt, type fsck -y when it's finished, do it again until you get the message that your hard drive appears to be okay. Then type reboot

If you have the Norton Systemworks or Norton Utilities CD, you can boot from that and repair your drive (even though it is booting into 9). The latest version of systemworks also has diskwarrior recovery edition on it - diskwarrior repairs drives that Norton cannot. Alternately, if you have...

Not that I can find. But you can upgrade the processor: OWC iMac upgrades

Yep, hulkaros is right - All ATA133 and ATA100 drives are completely backwards compatible with ATA66 and ATA5 - they just run at the ATA66 speed.

I'd bet it was the power supply. Congrats on getting a replacement machine!