It was oficaly referbished By OWC and had a new drive 80 GB (76.7 after OS).
OSX has been Tiger for years now!
I tried two strategists. Its origional disks, intending to upgrade on the way. OSX Tiger as it was running that!
The origional isks would not load a re-load. Tiger did yet would not compleat.
Here is a little background:
Blue and White Power mac G3 (PCI Graphics)
Well the history being I had not used the machine for about nine months and had left it working dandy!
Worked on it for the first time and it was fine.
Next day opened it up and it had a grey decending curtain which kept saying restart your mac.
This lead me to think it may be a battery problem yet the date was right. No ham in checking. The battery was full charge. So eventually after running first aid a few time, learning some files were missing and once it took a trip to the 'lost and found file' ?, it repaired everything.
I had 'zapped the pram'. as well. I found after all this the grey screen treatment. I could get it up running normally when I zapped the pram. If I was quick and clicked the finder all was well. Worked on it for a day. Noticed photo shop brushed had no ring size just a cross hair which was odd!
Next day grey screen!
Humm, so I looked inside (static banded up) to see if maybe the ram was loose, grasping at straws now!
Then started it up. Nothing, not even grey defending screen with message to re start. From there is got worst as I tried to first aid. Lost the ability to verify the permissions or repair. Could verify the disk yet not repair it.
Could not reload software OS from Original genuine apple disks. Either the ones which came with the machine or the upgrade Tiger disk which I had been running on since its realise with some auto upgrading &c.
So today I will look at the Ram and the connections inside and see?
I suspect from what I read, never had a disk go on me before so no experience here, the video card least likely, the Ram, likely yet second, the hard disk, most likely!
I would love to get my current disk running yet I feel that may be beyond hope or technical practice?
Any advice or Ideas still very welcome.
I will repair the machine as it needs to function for work I have with that level of machine compatible software. I will also get a new machine yet it will not run this software. Gosh how many times have I been here!
Thanks for your responses!