Beige G3 FrankenMac won't boot

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macardvarkmacardvark
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
I have beige G3 with the following hardware upgrades:



Sonnet ZIF G4 500Mhz processor

Pioneer Superdrive

80 Gb ATA hard drive

3x128 Mb Ram

Firewire & USB PCI cards

Mac USB keyboard and mouse



I cannot get the machine to read anything other than Mac OS9.2 disk on startup and it will not

recognise the keyboard or mouse.



I want to be able to run Panther or Tiger on it.



Any ideas?

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  • Reply 1 of 4
    lundylundy Posts: 4,466member
    Search for XPostFacto.
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  • Reply 2 of 4
    Marvinmarvin Posts: 15,585moderator
    10.2 might work. I think Beige G3s stopped being supported at 10.3, hence the reason XPostFacto was made. 10.2 is actually not too bad to run.
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    macardvarkmacardvark Posts: 3member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Marvin


    10.2 might work. I think Beige G3s stopped being supported at 10.3, hence the reason XPostFacto was made. 10.2 is actually not too bad to run.



    Thanks, I thought my G4 processor would enable me to load Tiger but I could be wrong!\
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    macardvarkmacardvark Posts: 3member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by lundy


    Search for XPostFacto.



    Thanks, I have looked them up. Looks like it should be the answer to my problems.
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