Home » forums » Discussion » PowerPC Macs

When the Reliable Becomes Unreliable.

Submitted by ILovemacs84 on November 27, 2007 - 10:12pm. PowerPC Macs

I have been putting off doing this for a while hoping by some act of God it would stop. As you may have already guessed, it didn't. At least for (maybe not for you) my PowerMac G3 has been very reliable. Well to get to the point, One day I started it up and no extensions were loaded (i am in OS9) and when I reboot the hard drive starts making a weird noise and won't boot. So when I reboot off the OS9 disc to reinstall. And it all went successful. Then it was fine for about a week and then when booting up it would freeze before booting any extension (at least that it showed). At the beginning I would be able to reboot and be fine, but later I would have to zap the PRAM and it may work. Well after a few weeks it wasn't working, I was out of ideas, and was tired of it. So I reinstalled (this time a new install (not overwritten)) on a different partition on my HD. It started having problems immediately and I can't get it to boot (It freezes like before) and my only option left is to present my problem to you guys.
Any help you have will be helpful.

Thank You, Nick.

» login or register to post comments | previous forum topic | next forum topic

Comment viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.
Jon's picture

Doing using another, known go

Submitted by Jon on November 28, 2007 - 1:25am.

Doing using another, known good, hard drive make a difference? If it was making a weird noise it could be going bad.

» I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine. - Fritz Perls

login or register to post comments
madmax_2069's picture

Yea, when the HDD starts to m

Submitted by madmax_2069 on November 28, 2007 - 2:25am.

Yea, when the HDD starts to make weird unexplained noises, that should be taken as a signal to back it up and replace it before it goes south.

i had one HDD i waited to long to back anything up and i lost it all. dont follow the same path i did, and back up what's on the HDD that you want to keep and replace it in a timely fashion (that is if you haven't already made a backup of the things you want to keep), but if its partitioned and you haven't backed up any data yet, now is a good time to do so.

» Beige G3 AIO, Rev B rom, G3 466mhz, 768mb Ram, WD SE 120gb hdd, ATI Radeon 7000 PCI, Belkin wireless G+ PCI card, Pioneer DVR-110D, OS 9.2.2 and OS X 10.4.10
Macdomain

login or register to post comments
ILovemacs84's picture

Well, backed up the old HD an

Submitted by ILovemacs84 on November 28, 2007 - 10:33pm.

Well, backed up the old HD and put in a new one, but when I try to launch the patched Drive Setup 1.7.3 it gives me a message saying that "the application could not be opened because it can not run on this computer." Any ideas on why this is happening. (oh and i also tried it without the patch and got the same problem).

thanks

»
login or register to post comments
Jon's picture

Why are you using a patched v

Submitted by Jon on November 29, 2007 - 7:06am.

Why are you using a patched version on OS 9? FWIK most drive format fine with the included software on the OS 9 disk, or if you have a 3rd party HD util program..

» I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine. - Fritz Perls

login or register to post comments