Mac G3 reboots during installation

[Corey Mercer]

Well that answers my question about why the thing had
a scsi card in it. I swapped out the cdrom drive and
am in the process of installing again... so far so
good, but I won't hold my breath.

-cor-
--- Marc <markov@tiscali.be> wrote:

> 
> The Blue White with rev A motherboard gives
> problems.
> 
> Solution: delete internal ide drives, and place a
> PCI-IDE
> card.  I'll do this thursday, when I have one
> available.
> 
> I have a Firewire external disk, it won't boot
> either.
> (would it work with USB???  Somebody told me
> he recovers PCs with a usb stick....))
> 
> Installing OS X gives problems too...
> 
> Apple "solved" this by selling the BW with ...
> PCI-SCSI
> cards....
> 
> BTW, where can one find Techtools Pro??
> 
> 
> 
> Marc
> >
> >> 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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