Power Macintosh G3 Freezes on Startup—What Should I Do?
I bought a fully functioning Power Macintosh G3 a few months ago that came with an OS 8.6 CD, and booted up again for the 2nd time today to try and connect to ethernet wifi. I got the error that "Internet Setup Assistant" isn't installed and I didn't know how to install it. Ran disk utility on the hard drive and said it had minor errors so I repaired it, and while I was running disk utility on the CD after it froze so I restarted. Seemingly everything was working fine when I started it again, but it froze when I tried to open Extensions Manager so I restarted it again. This time I got a message upon startup saying that it was doing disk utility on my hard drive since it detected a crash, but the progress bar hung in the middle so I restarted it again. And this time (and every attempt I've made at starting it after that) It just freezes on startup like with a blank box over the words "MAC OS 8.6". I'm sorry for the longwinded explanation but I'm freaking out here and don't know what I should do. I've tried holding down the C key as well as the Command + Option + P + R key while restarting (don't know if I did it properly) but it hasn't worked. Please let me know if you have any idea what I should do please, and thank you so much for taking the time to read this!
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I am not the resident Mac expert but since no one has responded to you I will try to help. I do have some Mac experience from years ago and did work with your model about 20 years ago. You do know it is a very old computer - 1999 I believe.
Did the Wi-Fi work when you bought it?
You say "Ethernet Wi-Fi" but they are two different things. Ethernet is the port that uses a cable and Wi-Fi is well wireless.
Perhaps try running the Disk Utility again several times.
door mike
@racheljiang Have the capacitors on this board been replaced? Has the backup battery been replaced?
door Andrew S
@andrewsawesome No but I did open the computer to take a look and they didn't look damaged or anything
door Rachel Jiang
@aactech There was no wifi when I bought it, only ethernet. Do you know how I can run disk utility if my computer freezes on startup?
door Rachel Jiang
Hi @racheljiang
Run it again from the CD, as you mentioned in your Question. Sometime running these utilities a few time fixes the problem, at least temporarily. Sound like you may just have bad sectors on your hard drive. Do you have important files on the drive?
door mike