Mac G3 reboots during installation

[mascarasnake]

Oh, I guess I coulda posted something useful as well.

If you're unsure where the CPU jumpers are, check out here:
	<http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/G3-ZONE/yosemite/OC.html>
nice How-To with pretty pictures.

g/luck

bruce woller wrote:

> I had this trouble with a G3 once.  Bought it off e-bay as a G3 B&W 
> 450MHz.  Could not get it to be stable under YDL 2.3.  On closer 
> examination of the "guts" I found that the CPU had been clock chipped 
> from a 333MHz desktop machine.  Check the jumper settings on the 
> motherboard.  There is (or should be) a piece of tape over the jumpers 
> that says "don't mess with these jumpers!"  I do not have the exact 
> location of the jumpers but you should be able to get it from google.  
> When I set the jumpers to select the 333MHz clock all went smoothly.  
> And no,  I never did get my money back - the seller was truly a crook.
> On Aug 23, 2004, at 11:12 PM, Corey Mercer wrote:
> 
>> Sorry, wasn't trying to spam.. browser locked up and
>> acted like the mail didn't send.
>>
>> -cor-
>> --- Corey Mercer <corwashere@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Well, I've tried switching hard drives, ram, pram
>>> batteries and I've tried removing unnecessary cards,
>>> but I still can't seem to get yellowdog to install
>>> on
>>> this g3. Should I just hold off until version 4? I
>>> can't imagine what else would cause this thing to
>>> reboot in the middle of an installation. It happens
>>> during the file copy at random moments. At one point
>>> it actually made it to the second cd and I thought I
>>> was home free until it rebooted during that one. The
>>> only other thing that comes to mind is that perhaps
>>> the system doesn't like ext3, but it's late and I'm
>>> tired and don't feel like fighting with it anymore
>>> today. I'll try changing the fs to ext2 tomorrow and
>>> see if that helps, but I am not even remotely
>>> optimistic.
>>>
>>> Ideas?
>>>
>>> -cor-
>>> --- Corey Mercer <corwashere@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I was given a Mac G3 Blue and White Tower that had
>>>> os
>>>> 9.2 on it. In several attempts to install YDL, the
>>>> mac
>>>> reboots and not always in the same spot during
>>>> installation. I have had this happen with PCs when
>>>> the
>>>> ram was bad, but swapping out the ram hasn't
>>>
>>> helped.
>>>
>>>> The only other thing that I can think of is to try
>>>
>>> a
>>>
>>>> different hard drive.
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas?
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