powermac

For now 2 weeks, I'm switching on regularly the powermac to see if everythin is running fine. I start iPhoto and add lots of photos, add lots of music into itunes library, and yes it seems to go well :)

Okay... I spend the last days, since my ladt post to install, and install and reinstall the Power Mac G3. but this time I decided to think a little more of what should be really changed. The previous day were the place for lots of tries to discover and find out the possible part which may stick... The result is pretty simple actually :
- either a RAM problem,
- or a hard disk issue.

Last Sunday, I get a copy of Mac OS X.3 (Panther) on CD, from a friend, to test if this version could be installed on the Power Mac. As, I didn't success to install Mac OS X.4 (Tiger) on it, may be a previous version could help. So during the last 3 days I tried to install, and install, and install, and even install the CDs... but nothing helped out.

Tonight I get a copy of MacOS 9 & OSX install CD/DVD. I took me 2 hours to visit my friend, as he would'nt let me go : He got some issues with his Ubuntu Linux ;) Who sais I'm the linux guy ? !

Back home, I dismount my DVD player from my PC (Acer did something cool... there's no screw fixing the player to the box), and remount it in the PowerMac, checking if, of course, the player was Master and no Slave.

Several weeks ago, I can get my hand on an old powermac G3 (the blue and white tower). I knew from the owner that it was (obviously old) and had some difficulties to run smoothly. In fact the Mac had some unkown problem that makes him run slow or simply freeze at boot time (no more chime to be heard...).