I'm setting up an old G3 desktop system for a friend who needs a Mac to play back DV files. Nothing too fancy here. Naturally I started by putting in a new drive and installing a new OS... or so I tried. I can get OS 8.1-9.0 to load flawlessly on the system. OS 9.1 loads but will occasional hang during start up, both from the hard drive and an OS 9.1 CD. OS 9.2 simply locks up the system with an extension error when started up from either the hard drive or CD. The lock up occurs even when I start up with extensions disabled.
So far I have:
- Swapped out hard drives
- Reset PRAM
- Installed new battery
- Mixed around the RAM but I only had three sticks to play with, minimum of 128MB and a max of 196MB between the three
- Run Norton, DiskWarrion, and TechTool Pro
- Install OS 9.2.1 from a CD
- Install OS 9.2.2 from a CD
- Upgrading from OS 9.0
The fact that OS 9.0 and less works fine but anything higher causes problems no matter how I install it just boggles me. Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
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