I would think Quartz Extreme would be best for the 66Mhz PCI slot video cards in B&Ws, not the slower normal 33mhz PCI slots that share bandwidth with other cards like in a…

I thought about doing that, But I also have an ATA 133 controller card as well as a USB/FW card, so having that enabled might hinder overall performance.

My beige config is in the signature. Are there any ways to get the freaking dvd player to work on this thing?!?!?!?! I did a mod/hack where you delete the install check file in t…

Could anybody tell me how to use Mac-On-Mac. I can't really figure it out. It has very little documentation. Thanks

how do you tell what revision ROM you have? Click to expand... As you are probably aware, ASP tells you which ROM is installed: $77D.40F2 revision A $77D.45F1 revision B $77…

Is the display cable on the inside that connects to the hunk of iMac carry any electricity or just the VGA signal?

The 9 ROM needs the OS 9 extensions and libs... so you'll get Mac OS 9 in the end.

Well I did the opposite. I placed the Mac OS 9.0.1 ROM image in the 8.6 system folder. It actually booted up with the Mac OS 8.6 welcome screen. That was short lived however, it wa…

G4 Required. The ZIF upgrade will get the system over the line but Apple has removed the kernel extensions for Gossamer and Heathrow so you will still only see a kernel panic. You…

When it does fail, you can hook it up to another monitor, or put it's hard disc into a b/w g3 or similarly old G4 tower.

My Grape iMac's CRT fails? The screen is rather dim but clear, it was burn in a bit. And it sometimes shows up red, witch I know in LCD's that the backlight is going so something e…

Does anyone know what would happen if I was to copy the Mac OS ROM file from the 8.6 CD while started up in 10.3.9 to the OS 9 system folder over the ROM version 9.0.1. Would that …

how do you tell what revision ROM you have? Click to expand... Get to know (and love) LEM. http://lowendmac.com/ppc/beige-power-mac-g3-1997.html

What's the average max stable speed of a 400mhz g3? Click to expand... Can't relate to that one but I pushed my 350 to 420 with no problems.

how do you tell what revision ROM you have?

you best bet is finding one with an 83mhz grackle and switching out the roms. best of both worlds. If you get the high end sonnet, you can only run at the 66 mhz anyways though.

Well, purchased a guaranteed working 400mhz proc off eBay for $14 shipped... Seemed too weird to have a machine with 768mb RAM and a 30gb HD with a 233mhz proc. What's the average…

RESOLVED. Seems that something on the hard disk that for some reason was loaded even while booting from CD was causing the problem. Now it seems slow, but just because I'm used to…

Sounds like a bit of problem determination is required. Try producing a list of boot up times with varying amounts of memory. Also, duplicate that same list without virtual memor…

Well, fixed the slowness problem, but now when I try to install a new 400mhz g3 upgrade card, I get a bong but no display. Ram is confirmed good, as is video. CUDA reset and PRAM …

So in a sense, if I want to overclock, maybe it would be better to stick with a Rev A board? Then I can just buy a pretty decked out G3 (well, nothing very fast) and stick with thi…

humm... I might stick with Tiger Click to expand... good choice, My Beige G3 AIO runs tiger quite well. Leopard strugles at times on my Digital Audio G4, it would probably brin…

humm... I might stick with Tiger

Leopard must have a G4 to run but it can run on an upgraded beige: http://lowendmac.com/mail/0801mb/0130.html second letter.

You absolutely need a G4 to run Leopard from what I understand. Luckily you can drop in a G4 ZIF as long as it's 66 MHz bus compatible. The oldest I've heard is Leopard on a G4 up…