Shortly after buying my Blue/White G3 the motherboard was replaced with a Revision 2 motherboard. After disappointing results with my Beige G3, I thought I would try to get the original motherboard from the blue/white G3 working.
Consulting the article from
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/systems/MacinPC_ATX_case/Blue_G3_to_ATX.html
I modified an ATX power extenstion to allow it to be used with it and connected a power switch to two wires on the front panel connector. At home I turned it on and saw video but none of the loose CD-ROM drives I had there would boot an OS 9 CD.
I brought the stuff to work to set it up here and connect the Beige G3's CD-ROM drive. While it will power on, no video appears on the screen.
So far it has the original 300mhz processor, 2 128MB PC100 SD-RAM modules, the original ATI Rage128 PCI video card, a 6.4GB laptop hard disk, the CD-ROM from the Beige, a CPU fan from an old Pentium heatsink and a power supply from a prototype HP server. The power supply is not in a standard ATX form factor but has the proper cabling.
Any ideas on bringing it back to life?
Consulting the article from
http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/systems/MacinPC_ATX_case/Blue_G3_to_ATX.html
I modified an ATX power extenstion to allow it to be used with it and connected a power switch to two wires on the front panel connector. At home I turned it on and saw video but none of the loose CD-ROM drives I had there would boot an OS 9 CD.
I brought the stuff to work to set it up here and connect the Beige G3's CD-ROM drive. While it will power on, no video appears on the screen.
So far it has the original 300mhz processor, 2 128MB PC100 SD-RAM modules, the original ATI Rage128 PCI video card, a 6.4GB laptop hard disk, the CD-ROM from the Beige, a CPU fan from an old Pentium heatsink and a power supply from a prototype HP server. The power supply is not in a standard ATX form factor but has the proper cabling.
Any ideas on bringing it back to life?