You can get a 4 gig CF card for less than $15, or less than $20 for a fast one or a good brand. On the other hand, $27 is pretty good, especially considering the fact that you don'…

Thanks, I did a lot of looking, but I couldn't find anything that told what the standard was for IDE on the G3. I personally think the key pin is redundant as there is a key molded…

Do you think that this will work? Click to expand... Should do, yes. this:http://cgi.ebay.com/4GB-Disk-On-Module-40Pins-Industrial-MLC-IDE-Flash_W0QQitemZ220395738789QQc…

Word of advice, apple techs are not allowed to share what they do on the interwebs. If apple finds out, instant fire from job I hear. Extremely strict on guidelines. Click to ex…

I pulled out my power supply to clean it up a bit underneath, and I decided I would try to add an 80 conductor cable to my G3. However, I found that the connector is slightly diffe…

I'm ruling out the ata bus's died.

Word of advice, apple techs are not allowed to share what they do on the interwebs. If apple finds out, instant fire from job I hear. Extremely strict on guidelines.

mix some thermal paste with gel super glue Click to expand... [...]but the tube of adhesive to attach it to the new logic board is basically more expensive than to just …

yes it most likely came as a service pack Click to expand... I agree; that really is the only way that makes sense. That's strange too though because there are no instructions…

I pulled out my power supply to clean it up a bit underneath, and I decided I would try to add an 80 conductor cable to my G3. However, I found that the connector is slightly diffe…

yes it most likely came as a service pack

I don't know anything about the pismo, but apple is strange like that.Have you tried removing the heatsink with a heat gun? Click to expand... I thought about using a heat gun,…

I don't know anything about the pismo, but apple is strange like that. Have you tried removing the heatsink with a heat gun?

Here's a picture of one of my faulty boards:

Here is a picture of it as seen in the Apple Service Manual: This is from page 91: Take Apart/Procedures/I/O Logic Board/PCMCIA Card Cage. You can see the shiny adhesive pad…

Yeah maybe I can fix something this time instead of breaking it :b&w:

Panther and Tiger install CDs. They'll load on my iMac but not on the G3. I have an external DVD writer hooked up to the G3 it will list it in System Profiler but I can't access an…

thats good, go slow and take breaks GOOD LUCK!

Well I'd like to revive this thread, because I am recapping the board right now. I have done 3 so far with success, I get to test it on monday.

What OSX are you trying to boot?

The G3 has been booted with OS 8.6 but for some reason won't boot to OSX. 256mb of ram, Twin Turbo 8mb secondary pci video card, 300mhz.

I remember hearing that. So what's that mean? I'll have unreliable master and slave on both IDE motherboard connections? Click to expand... There should be a big thread about i…

Pretty sure a new logic board is sold without any heat sinks. Could you post a picture of the GPU Heatsink? You could make a makeshift heatsink... Or just buy another Pismo one.

I think you will have issues with any slave drives on either channels under classic mac os.

I remember hearing that. So what's that mean? I'll have unreliable master and slave on both IDE motherboard connections?