Search results

  1. S

    Upgrading two G3's- any ideas?

    I have been put in charge of upgrading two old G3's - one iMac 350 MHz with a 6GB hard drive, 256MB RAM, running OS 10.2.8 -one Blue and While G3 350 MHz with a 12GB HD, 320 MB RAM, running OS 10.2.8 I want to put a 512 MB RAM chip and a new 80 GB hard drive in the iMac. For the B&W, I...
  2. S

    Installing Tiger on an old iMac G3 400MHz DVD-ROM...

    OK - I don't know the reason for it, but when I tried to install Tiger on a G3 with a DVD drive, it would not recognize the Tiger DVD when only OS9 was installed. I did have to start with an earlier version of OS X before I could jump to Tiger. Once OS 10.2 was installed, the computer recognized...
  3. S

    Installing Tiger on an old iMac G3 400MHz DVD-ROM...

    I recently tried to install tiger on a bunch of G3's with a little bit of trouble. First, yes, update the firmware!! You will be sorry if you don't. Second, if it is not already running an earlier version of OS X (I started with OS 10.2), I don't think it will recognize the Tiger OS. So, you...
  4. S

    Os 10.2.8 On G3 350mhz

    I actually fixed it! What I had to do was take the HD out and stick it into another computer with a free HD slot, then reinstall OS 9. After that, I put the HD back into the iMac and updated the firmware (the screen was just visible enough to do this). OS 9 was fine, and I just re-installed OS...
  5. S

    Os 10.2.8 On G3 350mhz

    I installed OS 10.2.8 on a G3 iMac (350 MHz processor) yesterday and the install was successful. Everything was working fine, and I installed Office 2004 and Acrobat Professional 7.0. When I turned it on this morning the screen was too dark. I tried customizing the screen settings in System...
Back
Top