Hi,

Just bought a beige G3 second. Silly me opened it up first before trying to run it. The G3 has two Maxtor hard drives, floppy, zip, CD-ROM and CD-WR drives. When I opened the computer there were some disconnected cables (speaker cable and cables from the original hard drive to the motherboard) I reconnected these, closed up the comp and started it up. The monitor did not come to life (yellow light does not turn green). Twenty seconds after start-up I would hear a short crash sound. Contacting the owner I got the explanation that he didn't use the original(smaller)hard drive so he never bothered to reset the jumpers... I disconnected the original drive to find that it did not have any jumpers at all. The second drive has only one jumper in the J50 spot. (Where can I get these jupers by the way?)I left the original hard drive disconnected and started the computer up again. No life. Replacing the battery on the mother board took care of the crashing sound. No longer there! (has anyone heard of this?) Now when I start up the comp the monitor LED light will turn green for two seconds and then turn yellow again. Hard drive spins but screen stays dark.

I'm clearly not an expert but I can't help feeling that I overlook something that's relatively simple. I sure hope that's the case... Any advice?

Elmer

Just new to mac's too, but I do know something about hard drives. Hard drives usually have jumpers, what you will see as three tiny pairs of pins and one plastic looking thing that slides over two of them, it can be changed to either of the three pairs of pins. The three settings are: cs = master only (or stand alone), m = master (in master and slave setup), and s = slave (in master and slave setup). Some hd's combine cs with m. Can also try searching internet for name and model of hd. The one guy said computer may not allow a slave, could be. Check all connections and that cables aren't backwards in sockets, best to rely on directional bump if it allows that kind of cable, a video card not making good connection can do that, possibly ram chip with some other computer's bios on it could be. Seams like the problem began when he decided to change hard drives or had some reason to. Good luck.