hey guys. i have a problem here. I own a g3 beige, with 384 ram, running 10.2. Everything works perfect until i installed a program (alchemy tv) to watch tv on my mac. When the installation was done, i rebooted the Mac and now i have a gray screen and cannot boot again in 10.2...well, i can't boot at all. I tried to boot with the Mac os 10.2 cd, holding the c key and nothing. I tried to reset pram (with command+option+p+r) and nothing, always the damn gray screen. The only thing i can do is starts with command+option+o+f and then i get the open firmware menu. I tried "reset-all" and teh mac reboots but i get the gray screen again....

What should i do? please help me

Thank you so much in advance!

Big hugs

If I'm not mistaken the G3 Beige had onboard video.
Sounds like alchemy may have either toasted your card or
put in some kext that prevents booting. Since you've
already zapped the PRAM and started on OF mode you
may have to reset your CUDA switch. If you aren't familiar
with this I'd be careful and ask someone with experience
to help you. It's a little red button inside the computer on
the motherboard. It resets EVERYTHING, including your
date/time to some obsecure date. It's commonly used
when replacing the battery. Alternately, on some
computers the C key did not force a startup from the CD.
Try using apple option shift delete. I found this to work on
my blue and white G3 to by-pass the internal hard drive
and search for any available startup system. If you do get
it to startup in X be sure to hold the shift key and startup
in safe mode. Search and destroy any kext, apps and
plists for the offending program. If it has an
uninstall....use it.

Hope this helps.

Well...first: thank you so much for the tips and advices. I open the Mac and starting to look that button, bur first i took off 2 of 3 ram modules. I started the mac and boila!, i could boot from cd. Now i'm formating the disk and installing X again.

Thank you so much my friend.

See you