Preliminary Necrosy Report: blue and white [COLUG]

[Ethan Dicks]

On 7/31/07, Rob Funk <rfunk at funknet.net> wrote:
> Ethan Dicks wrote:
> > I retrofitted a "standard" ATX supply to an old Blue and White G3 Mac
> > ... is now living happily in a beige box.  Camouflage, I guess.
>
> A blue/white G3 in an ugly beige box?  Horrible!  ;-)

Yah, well... the Mac was rescued from a dumpster where it was placed,
I think, because its power supply failed - it was missing in any case.
 Someone else wanted the enclosure to stick a PC into; I got the guts
and eventually put it all together.

> I have a blue/white G3 (upgraded to G4) that I've been trying to make more
> usable.  Unfortunately when I brought it up from 384MB to 1G, Linux
> started giving segfaults on bootup.  I'm not sure whether I hope the
> problem is the memory or the Mac.

Hmm... I haven't run one with that much memory, so I don't know where
the problem might lie.  Depending on your DIMM arrangement, you might
consider pulling back below 1G and running with the remaining memory
in case it's a problem that only exhibits itself at the 1G threshold.
You could at least increase your confidence for your DIMMs that way.

-ethan