Sorry if my first post is a bit long. I'm a newbie to this list but go a long way from the Quadlist to the 1st-PowerMacs-list to this one ...
I was given a beige G3/300 MT lately which was supposed to be dead. I succeeded to revive the thing with the help of a friend who recycles Macs and sells them via Ebay. Apparently it was a DIMM which didn't work but worked in a PeeCee. We found out after exchanging virtually everything except the mobo and the power supply.
There are still some woes, however:
The Mac doesn't see it's AV-card, it's in the Profiler but when I try to run video or DVD via the S-Video input no hardware is detected by Apple Videoplayer or FusionRecorder.
An ATI Mach64/6MB which I pulled from a given 9500/132 won't work but works O.K. in a 8600/200 pulled from the trash. Do I need drivers to support the card? It should work w/o them albeit in default mode.
I have two UW SCSI-drives in the G3 now running from a Formac ProRaid UW-controller, a 9 gig Seagate Elite and a 18 gig IBM which I pulled from my old 7100/80/Crescendo 400 Mhz (the original Adaptec UW controller had been pulled along with the original 4 gig UW drive). When I choose the IBM as startup-disk, the Mac will only sporadically start from it. Often it doesn't see the drive and starts from the Seagate. Then I have to mount the IBM with a mounting utility. This happened with OS 8.6 on both drives and still happens with OS 9.1 on the Seagate and OS 8.6 on the IBM.
The config of the G3 at the moment:
ROM is Revision B ($77D.45F1), OS 9.1 on the Seagate, OS 8.6 on the IBM, 256 meg RAM (64, 64 and 128 resp.), no ATA-drive, original ATAPI CD-ROM and SCSI ZIP drive pulled from a 8600.
Does anyone have some suggestions for me to try out or do I have to look for another mobo? If so can I use a mobo from a 266 Mhz MT and overclock it using the jumper block?
Any hints or suggestions are highly appreciated. I'd like to keep this machine as I can use cheap memory (what's the max?) and big ATA-drives to stash my CD images on. I heard you can even watch DivX films on this thingie.
What about OSX? I have two CD-ROMs with version 10.2.
This is OT: Does anyone know what happened to SERKER, the know-it-all from the earlier Quadlist? He once stated that the SCSI-2 controllers Apple used in the (then new) beige G3s were old stock and slower than even the on-board SCSI in the IIci ...
TIA, cheers, J�rg.
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