all I know is my head is spinning with all of these video card names. I know about them all, but when you list them all in one post, and connect them, that's a major brain fart …

Beachycove's screen transplant suggestion is a wonderful idea. There are (or used to be) stacks of 5300s with bad logic boards but good screens, so finding a source of organ donors…

You can pop the active matrix screen from a PB5300c on one and make a plain-Jane 190 into a rather nice colour 68k powerbook. I am pretty sure that the 190 cannot take advantage of…

Digital Picture Frame! http://www.alksoft.com/5300_stuff/5300_picture_frame.php Peace, Drew

People say "Rage IIc", but they really mean Rage II+DVD (the two are virtually the same thing, and the underlying 2D/3D acceleration of the II+DVD is the same as the IIc). I've ne…

pitch them!!! horrible machines. I went through 3 of them before realizing how much they sucked. I wouldn't touch one with a 10 foot pole!

Great! It is always good to get a pair of machines since the one that doesn't work can be used as a spares machine. It sounds like you now have plenty to play around with!

The BIV would be a Rage IIc...the Rage II was basically a redesigned Mach64. On top of that, those were the only three chips that Apple used on the Beige G3s: The Rage IIc, Rage II…

I installed the ATI utilities, and it recognises the PCi card as a Rage Pro. The built in stuff is a Mach64, and ASP identifies that as having 4mb of VRAM. No idea how much the car…

I also noticed the ATI video card has a SGRAM slot, which is odd, because I do not know of any older ATI Rage cards with expandable memory. I will ID it in ASP as soon as I am done…

nope, at least I don't think I do. Maybe in this one big box of computer parts. I did have 3-4 52x drives I got cheap, and a 32x sony drive... -digital

Thanks for the update and confirmation that it is a floppy port drive. It is a later drive than the one I know about, but very closely related. Try: plug the serial connector into…

If I had a spare CD-ROM, I would swap that in. Hell, if I had an apple DVD-ROM, I would pop my decoder card from my RAGE 128 in my B&W on to the ATI video card in it. Cl…

alright, I scrapped Rhapsody, since I could not get it to configure my network right, even manually inputting the IP, DNS, subnet, gateway, and all that. So, I popped in my OS 9.2…

Yay Floppys!

Holy shite dude! Nice score! Click to expand... wash your mouth, kid }

Hi, The drive does connect to the floppy drive. It also has connects to the serial or printer port. However although I can mount it i am unable to boot from it (even when I connec…

Holy shite dude! Nice score!

Tested the 5500 tonight. All works, including the TV Tuner (apparently, although all I get is snow without an antenna attached). 9.1, 64MB, 2GB. And it has that helicopter taking …

in gauge pro (in OS 9.2.2) shows my memory performance at 75mb/second - 78mb/second and that is with a G3 450mhz (OC to 466 cause of system bus) system bus is at stock 66mhz with 3…

If you overclock, I am pretty sure you will need PC100 memory to run at 83mhz. And I checked my two G3's and they both have the 66mhz chips.

The PB140 is probably easily fixed. The 1xx series PBs are infamous for somewhat flaky LCD connector behavior. Often, it suffices simply to pull out the flex cable, and then reinse…

in gauge pro (in OS 9.2.2) shows my memory performance at 75mb/second - 78mb/second and that is with a G3 450mhz (OC to 466 cause of system bus) system bus is at stock 66mhz with 3…

Yeah...a 1400/G3 would have no problems at all with the WWW...i was referring to PB1400s which still have a 603e (mine does)

My notes on an early Paradise drive (taken from contemporary reports) are provided below. The one described by the OP sounds similar, but seems to use the floppy rather than serial…