Power mac g3 and tiger install

macuser12 · macuser12 #1 (**permalink**)

02-21-2010, 01:57 PM

Hi all

I have a power mac g3 Blue and white motherboard that is mounted in a marathon server case, when i got it it had no hard drive and no ram cards, also it had no CD/DVD drive, so after a few days putting it together and messing around with it i got it to at least chime on start up which took about three weeks to accomplish, so any way I'm now trying to install tiger but when i start it it shows the apple screen with the spinning wheel and it just stays like that for hour and goes nowhere.

any one have any ideas?

hughvane · hughvane #2 (**permalink**)

02-21-2010, 03:28 PM

Is the Tiger disk the black-colored retail version, or machine-specific grey? You will need the full retail version.

What model of G3 processor? There were four configurations, maximum 450 MHz.

harryb2448 · harryb2448 #3 (**permalink**)

02-21-2010, 03:41 PM

Wonder exactly what CPU is used as it may be a Hackintosh?

cwa107 · cwa107 #4 (**permalink**)

02-21-2010, 05:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by harryb2448

Wonder exactly what CPU is used as it may be a Hackintosh?

OP says it's a Power Mac G3, so I'd guess it's PPC (and not a Hackintosh).

macuser12 · macuser12 #5 (**permalink**)

02-21-2010, 06:52 PM

it is a ppc G3 I'm not sure what processor speed all i know is its a blue and white mmc mother board that is set in a marathon server box and yes the disk is retail.

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Member Since: Feb 21, 2010 Location: Rochester NY Posts: 5 Mac Specs: Power mac g4 Quicksilver, ppc g4 dual core, with 1.5GB of ram, a 180 Gb hard drive,and osx leapord	02-21-2010, 01:57 PM Hi all I have a power mac g3 Blue and white motherboard that is mounted in a marathon server case, when i got it it had no hard drive and no ram cards, also it had no CD/DVD drive, so after a few days putting it together and messing around with it i got it to at least chime on start up which took about three weeks to accomplish, so any way I'm now trying to install tiger but when i start it it shows the apple screen with the spinning wheel and it just stays like that for hour and goes nowhere. any one have any ideas?
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