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Hi everyone,
Here is the scoop. I've only owned PC's but a guy at work was selling his G3 with the matching monitor for $30 so I took it.
I got it home tonight and the first thing I did was take out the old hard drive and put in an old 20gb I had laying around. I proceeded to install Panther on it when after it rebooted, the hard drive did nothing but chug for a minute then stopped. The whole thing just sat there with the Apple logo on the screen with the little clockwise turning star thing (sorry guys, I know this is painful).
Suspecting perhaps the install did not like the new drive (even though it did let me partition it) I unplugged it since I could not turn it off from the power button. I plugged in the old drive, hit the power, and nothing. no lights on the motherboard, no nothing.
I unplugged everything.... all RAM, video, hard drive, CD, etc. Still no go. Is it common that unplugging them when they're on toasts the power supply or mobo?
Any ideas? I thought maybe I could try a volt meter on the part that plugs into the mobo... I should get some DC readings from that even though its off right?
Hope you can help and thanks for reading
Kevin
Here is the scoop. I've only owned PC's but a guy at work was selling his G3 with the matching monitor for $30 so I took it.
I got it home tonight and the first thing I did was take out the old hard drive and put in an old 20gb I had laying around. I proceeded to install Panther on it when after it rebooted, the hard drive did nothing but chug for a minute then stopped. The whole thing just sat there with the Apple logo on the screen with the little clockwise turning star thing (sorry guys, I know this is painful).
Suspecting perhaps the install did not like the new drive (even though it did let me partition it) I unplugged it since I could not turn it off from the power button. I plugged in the old drive, hit the power, and nothing. no lights on the motherboard, no nothing.
I unplugged everything.... all RAM, video, hard drive, CD, etc. Still no go. Is it common that unplugging them when they're on toasts the power supply or mobo?
Any ideas? I thought maybe I could try a volt meter on the part that plugs into the mobo... I should get some DC readings from that even though its off right?
Hope you can help and thanks for reading
Kevin