Jonas: I'm pretty sure it's a Revision 2 board. Most of the Beige G3s I bought at surplus were Revision 2 (unless this is the one I got as a "giveaway" from the local newspaper). Seems all the Revision 1 desktops I ever ran across has the "round" CD eject button. This one has the normal rectangular button. At any rate, I have about 4-5 of the mini-towers sitting in a closet that I could swap the ROM chips out for if it turns out to be a R1.
I just hope someone can help me overcome this video-out problem. Surely there are some "old-timers" who have done this before that know what they're doing! I can't say how many hours I've been working at this without any success (other than manually switching mirroring on after each startup, which as I said before, isn't really a viable solution). On Jan 21, 3:34 pm, jonas ulrich <jonasulrich3...@gmail.com> wrote: > Don't give up. Once you get it working it will work great. I know someone > who uses a beige g3 as a dvd player wit her tv. For really good quality > input and out put you will need to get a beige g3 with the later revision > motherboard. If you look on the motherboard it will tell you what video card > you have. The old one was something like "ati rage II" and the newest one > that came with the latest revision motherboard was something like "ATI Rage > 128 Pro." The difference is amazing. I know for sure that the 300MHZ > minitower came with the better graphics. DON"T GIVE UP!!!!!!!! -Jonas > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 11:06 AM, mythmaker18 <mythmake...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Hmmm, a button to press at startup? Would be great if that were the > > solution! Otherwise, I think I'll probably have to buy one of those > > VGA-to-TV converter boxes (that sell for $20-plus). It's a 266MHz > > desktop, but when I found they were compatible, I fixed the jumper > > settings and replaced the stock processor with a 400MHz one from a Rev. > > 1 B/W G3 tower. > > > Just looking for a way to play my old 8/16-bit games (SNES, Genesis, > > MAME) on the 25-inch TV downstairs (instead of having to use a desktop > > monitor). Thought the beige G3 would be a natural for this with its > > personality card, but had no idea there'd be all these roadblocks! > > > Andy > > > On Jan 21, 1:34 pm, jonas ulrich <jonasulrich3...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > My first Beige g3 minitower worked great with the tv as its only monitor. > > I > > > thing there might be a key you press at startup. There also might be an > > > extension. How fast is the computer? The older beige g3s had and older > > video > > > card that made the video inputs and outputs look like crap. However, the > > > latest minitowers that they made had great graphics.-Jonas > > > > On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 6:13 AM, mythmaker18 <mythmake...@yahoo.com> > > wrote: > > > > > I was wanting to turn an old Beige G3 desktop machine of mine into a > > > > "video game box" and thought I'd be able to simply run RCA (or S- > > > > Video) from the personality card's outputs to my TV's inputs. Although > > > > the sound comes through, I can NOT get the picture on the TV. > > > > > The ONLY way I've been able to make this work was to hook up an actual > > > > monitor to the monitor port and turn on "Mirroring" in the control > > > > strip. Sucky thing is, though, mirroring doesn't stay on after a > > > > restart/shutdown: it has to be turned on anew each time the machine is > > > > booted. > > > > > Does anyone here know of any way I can get this mac to use a TV as its > > > > only display, without having to have a "real" monitor attached? I feel > > > > like I've tried everything (even bought one of those cheapo VGA-to-RCA/ > > > > SVideo cables and that didn't work. > > > > > I have both a VGA card in the PCI slot and onboard video. Tried both. > > > > > The reason I think this is SUPPOSED to work is that when I googled the > > > > subject, I came across some old forum postings from a guy who says he > > > > uses a TV as his beige G3's only display and it just "works" for him > > > > (couldn't tell me how to make it work for me, though). > > > > > Would really like to put this old machine to use, but there's no way > > > > I'm going to add a computer monitor to my entertainment cabinet, too. > > > > > Can anybody help? Tried using both MacOS 8.5 and 9.1. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
