Powermac G3 AIO OEM CD question — #5

Post #5 by LCGuy

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	PowerPC
Post Date	Fri, 24 Sep 2010 - 13:26
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/powermac-g3-aio-oem-cd-question.21341/

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The only thing that makes the board in that an AIO is the fact that a CRT is hooked up the personality/wings card. Take that off and you got a plain-jane beige G3.
I converted one of those into a tower G3. I don't even think it identified with the system as an AIO, unless it sensed the CRT and told it that.

It is the same between the desktop and the tower. all the same boards/cpu/cards. Even the card that runs the monitor is a regular Whisper personality card. It's that black connector with clips that connects the CRT to it. And I suppose the other cable iirc that connect the front audio jacks and control buttons. That's it.

Just throw it in a beige G3 and watch it install.

Another little tidbit of information is that later G3s (introduced after the AIO) actually came with that edition of the Whisper card that had the connection for the AIO's built in CRT, even in countries outside of the US. Here in Australia we never got the AIO, yet I remember working on a Beige G3 Desktop many years ago that had a connector on the personality card labeled, "AIO VIDEO".