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So I will do my best to include as much useful detail while keeping this brief. Thanks in advance for any assistance!
I recently acquired a lovely graphite g3 700mhz. When I got it home, it booted into OS9 and worked. I thought I would try booting into osx just to see how that worked. It booted into osx once, I set things up, all fine. Then when I rebooted, everything went to heck. It gave me a bunch of command line error stuff, and wouldn't boot. I figured the install must have been corrupted.
I attempted to boot from USB (through open firmware) to install os9 or osx again with no luck. It always spit out ", checksum error ok 0 >". So I tried burning CDs instead and booting the install discs. Same error. If I boot without open firmware it just hangs.
I tried resetting PRAM, before and then again after replacing the PRAM battery.
Still the same issues.
What is likely the culprit, and what else can I try? Bad Ram? Something more serious on the logic board?
I'm no stranger to electronics repair, so it wouldn't put me off if I needed to hunt down some issues on the logic board, I just have no idea where to begin!
Thanks again for any help or advice!
Cheers-
SF
I recently acquired a lovely graphite g3 700mhz. When I got it home, it booted into OS9 and worked. I thought I would try booting into osx just to see how that worked. It booted into osx once, I set things up, all fine. Then when I rebooted, everything went to heck. It gave me a bunch of command line error stuff, and wouldn't boot. I figured the install must have been corrupted.
I attempted to boot from USB (through open firmware) to install os9 or osx again with no luck. It always spit out ", checksum error ok 0 >". So I tried burning CDs instead and booting the install discs. Same error. If I boot without open firmware it just hangs.
I tried resetting PRAM, before and then again after replacing the PRAM battery.
Still the same issues.
What is likely the culprit, and what else can I try? Bad Ram? Something more serious on the logic board?
I'm no stranger to electronics repair, so it wouldn't put me off if I needed to hunt down some issues on the logic board, I just have no idea where to begin!
Thanks again for any help or advice!
Cheers-
SF