They appear to be stock configuration; 32 MB RAM, 4 GB hard drive, Zip drive, 2 MB VRAM, so to get these up to running OS X 10.2.8, would take, I would guess, $100-$200 dollars on a RAM upgrade, USB PCI card, new PRAM battery, etc.
The first thing I did was reformat the drives and install Mac OS 9.2.2 on all three of them. However, on one of the three, I wasn't getting any sound, not even a startup chime. I was thinking there was some kind of loose or broken connection leading to the speakers, and was contemplating having to open the case and track down the problem, as headphones plugged into the front panel jacks worked fine.
However, when I unplugged the headphones, the speakers made a sound for a split second, (an audio CD was playing at the time) and then silence again. I discovered that if I stuck the headphone plug about halfway into the jack and wiggled it around a bit, that the speakers would cut in and out. Finally, I was able to jigger them so that the speakers stayed on when the headphones were unplugged.
My question is, is this a common phenomena with the G3 All-in-Ones, or was this unit's headphone jacks just abused at some point in its six year history? Is the headphone jack repair an easy fix, or should I live with it?
My other question regards VRAM. I see that the stock VRAM of 2 MB can be upgraded to 6 MB. Will this do anything concrete for my system, other than give me millions of colors at 1024x768? Yes, I realize that using 832x624 at thousands will give me faster redraws than using a higher resolution or using millions of colors. Will upgrading the VRAM increase rendering performance, especially in OS X, or will performance remain the same at any given resolution, whether there is 2 MB or 6 MB?
thanks,
Greg
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