Ripcord
Senior Lurker
Has anyone else experienced massive freezing when trying to install OS X 10.2 on a B&W G3?
I recently bought a 450mhz B&W, and have had no end of trouble with it. Originally it was freezing (and doing weird application crashes) quite often even with OS 9.2.2, but I swapped out the 3 128MB DIMMS that came in it (all 3rd-party, from what I can tell) with an Apple-brand 256MB DIMM, and 9.2.2 is rock-solid now. I haven't been able to find a way to crash it (or cause it to freeze).
I should also clarify what I mean by freeze - EVERYthing stops. Mouse cursor, keyboard activity, system clock (if I was in 9.2.2), the CD/hard drive, the little progress bar animation in the OS X installer).
It also crashes at random points during the install. It tends to freeze right after the "Do you agree to the license agreement" dialog drops down, but only about 20% of the time. The other 80% it freezes just about anywhere during the process (including very rarely during the grey apple logo load screen).
Any thoughts? I feel like I've tried EVERYthing. I've swapped out pretty much all the hardware in the box except the logic board, CPU, and power supply - video card, memory, SCSI card, hard drive (even tried removing the SCSI card and using an IDE disk), CD-ROM. I've even tried disconnecting the modem and the firewire daughterboards.
As far as I know, I have the latest firmware on everything - 1.0 "MacOS ROM", 1.1 Firmware, and 1.2 SCSI Firmware (all the updaters tell me that the firmware levels are current).
I've tried running a reset-all in Open Firmware.
I even tried booting with a hard drive from my DigAudio 533 G4 running 10.2.1. It actually will boot fine 100% of the time - unless it freezes. If it does boot, then it freezes eventually (I don't think I've gotten anything more than 5 minutes out of it. However, they're GOOD 5 minutes - I'm actually surprised how well Jag performs on this box =).
Note - when I boot up off of that hard drive into Single User mode, it works fine, and I can't find a way to make the machine fail.
Since 9.2.2 is so rock-solid, I have trouble believing that this is a hardware problem. I think there's something about my system still that Jag doesn't like (like old firmware or something).
Oh, I had noticed some scratches on my Jag Disk #1, so I burned a fresh copy of it. No errors during the burn, and still the exact same freezes.
Help!! I really don't want to be stuck with OS 9 on this box...
Ian
I recently bought a 450mhz B&W, and have had no end of trouble with it. Originally it was freezing (and doing weird application crashes) quite often even with OS 9.2.2, but I swapped out the 3 128MB DIMMS that came in it (all 3rd-party, from what I can tell) with an Apple-brand 256MB DIMM, and 9.2.2 is rock-solid now. I haven't been able to find a way to crash it (or cause it to freeze).
I should also clarify what I mean by freeze - EVERYthing stops. Mouse cursor, keyboard activity, system clock (if I was in 9.2.2), the CD/hard drive, the little progress bar animation in the OS X installer).
It also crashes at random points during the install. It tends to freeze right after the "Do you agree to the license agreement" dialog drops down, but only about 20% of the time. The other 80% it freezes just about anywhere during the process (including very rarely during the grey apple logo load screen).
Any thoughts? I feel like I've tried EVERYthing. I've swapped out pretty much all the hardware in the box except the logic board, CPU, and power supply - video card, memory, SCSI card, hard drive (even tried removing the SCSI card and using an IDE disk), CD-ROM. I've even tried disconnecting the modem and the firewire daughterboards.
As far as I know, I have the latest firmware on everything - 1.0 "MacOS ROM", 1.1 Firmware, and 1.2 SCSI Firmware (all the updaters tell me that the firmware levels are current).
I've tried running a reset-all in Open Firmware.
I even tried booting with a hard drive from my DigAudio 533 G4 running 10.2.1. It actually will boot fine 100% of the time - unless it freezes. If it does boot, then it freezes eventually (I don't think I've gotten anything more than 5 minutes out of it. However, they're GOOD 5 minutes - I'm actually surprised how well Jag performs on this box =).
Note - when I boot up off of that hard drive into Single User mode, it works fine, and I can't find a way to make the machine fail.
Since 9.2.2 is so rock-solid, I have trouble believing that this is a hardware problem. I think there's something about my system still that Jag doesn't like (like old firmware or something).
Oh, I had noticed some scratches on my Jag Disk #1, so I burned a fresh copy of it. No errors during the burn, and still the exact same freezes.
Help!! I really don't want to be stuck with OS 9 on this box...
Ian