The board will fit, I have 3 beige G3s with BW boards (+ ATX power
supplies). The ports in the rear of the BW board do not line up with
the beige case so you will need to cut away some of the plastic. The
other problem is mounting the board so it doesn't contact the case
bottom; if any part touches you won't get startup or, worse yet, you
might damage the board. You need to break the mounting posts off the
bottom of the beige case. I finally settled on some self-stick plastic
feet and supermount tape from my local Radio Shack. The feet are non-
conductive and stick directly to the bottom of the board, then a piece
of supermount tape will stick the foot to the bottom of the beige
case.
Disclaimer (before someone tries to have me committed) I only did this
because I inherited a bunch of beige G3s and Mac parts that were being
tossed by a local business. Considering the time involved and cost of
misc. parts to purchase it's probably more cost effective to pick up a
used G4 off the Swap List or your local Craigslist. Having said that,
I have great fun using my beige G3 desktop, Sonnet G4 500 CPU, BW
mobo, 1 GB RAM, SATA card with 3 SATA drives in a RAID 0 array, and a
flashed GeForce 6200/256 MB PCI video card (CI and QE supported!) OS X
10.4.11
On Apr 11, 1:38 am, Mullin9 ddavidmul...@inbox.com wrote:
Dear Sir
I have a G3 266 Beige, with fried LoBo,
and the working LoBo Pulled from the PowerMac G3 Blue n White,
Will it fit in the G3 Beige casing,?
/
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