Greetings.
I haven't seen anything on this posted here yet, so here it is:
I have a G3 Blue and white aquired used two years ago. Upgraded it to G4-500MHz, upgraded 256mb RAM to 768mb, Swapped in SATA 80GB HDD with controller card. All worked well until a couple weeks ago. Colors started looking washed out on Screen (Flat panel monitor. Nothing wrong with it). Decided to reload Mac OSX 10.3. Had errors during installation and finally got it installed. Crashed three times on subsequent reinstalls. Each time, I had errors during install and it finally loaded. Each time it eventually crashes and becomes so unusable that I have to reload. There has never been a problem with it till now. I hate to say it, but my PC has been more reliable lately. What could it be? I know it isn't the hard drive, because I took it out of the Mac, installed it in the PC and it runs fine. Replaced the Rage 128 Video card with a Radeon 7000, so it isn't the vid card. Installed and ran a virus scanner that turned up nothing. And just so we're clear, I have not installed any new third party ram. The memory I added two years ago hasn't changed. The hard drive and all the other upgrades were done two years ago and it has been fine up until now. Also, each time I reinstalled the OS, I wiped the Hard drive, ran the disk utility from the CD to repair the drive, and did clean installs. What could be causing this problem?
Thanks,
Daddy_Oh
I haven't seen anything on this posted here yet, so here it is:
I have a G3 Blue and white aquired used two years ago. Upgraded it to G4-500MHz, upgraded 256mb RAM to 768mb, Swapped in SATA 80GB HDD with controller card. All worked well until a couple weeks ago. Colors started looking washed out on Screen (Flat panel monitor. Nothing wrong with it). Decided to reload Mac OSX 10.3. Had errors during installation and finally got it installed. Crashed three times on subsequent reinstalls. Each time, I had errors during install and it finally loaded. Each time it eventually crashes and becomes so unusable that I have to reload. There has never been a problem with it till now. I hate to say it, but my PC has been more reliable lately. What could it be? I know it isn't the hard drive, because I took it out of the Mac, installed it in the PC and it runs fine. Replaced the Rage 128 Video card with a Radeon 7000, so it isn't the vid card. Installed and ran a virus scanner that turned up nothing. And just so we're clear, I have not installed any new third party ram. The memory I added two years ago hasn't changed. The hard drive and all the other upgrades were done two years ago and it has been fine up until now. Also, each time I reinstalled the OS, I wiped the Hard drive, ran the disk utility from the CD to repair the drive, and did clean installs. What could be causing this problem?
Thanks,
Daddy_Oh