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Problem with G3 Blue white tower
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I got a Power MAcintosh G3 bue adn white tower recently, which had suffered neglect in my father's co-workers basement. got it runing, and it worked ok. I more recently got a copy of OSX Panther, with Install CD 1, Install CD 2, adn Apple Hardwarecheck + Extras install. I find when i try adn boot from CD 1 my mac dosen't recognize it, and when i boot to my OS (Mac OS 8.6) it won't read the CD and asks to initalize it. the same happns with CD2, but not the AHC CD. I checked my Firmware and it was up to date. If someone help me figure out wahts whats wrogn ti would be greatly appreciated.
-Sylak
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Those OS X disc's you got are probably dvd's. The Apple Hardware test disc is a cd so of course it will work.
Most B&W G3's only have a cd-rom drives. Hop onto ebay and get yourself a standard ide dvd drive and then you'll be able to install panther.
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If the hardware test disk came with the panther disks you bought, it is an OEM copy, that is machine specific and will not install on a machine other than the model it was designed for.
if the person/place you bought it from claims it was a RETAIL verson, they lied........ the retail version of Panther did NOT and does NOT come with a hdwr test disk. (I bought one for my B&W, and 4 others at various times for installs on my friends' 'puters)
If it was a DVD version, it would all be on 1 disk......
Some B&W's were offered w/ a dvd drive, if it was ordered w/ the Rage 128 that had the add-on dvd hardware decoder .....
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You're right, he has got disks from another computer. e.g Ibook
They won't work on the G3. They are dvd's though - two of them.
The Apple Hardware test does only come with computers and is a cd. It probably won't work, but give it a try.
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