Yeah word. How do you identify which version of the Grackle IC you have? And Rev. F ROM? Never heard of that one. Click to expand... Rev. F? Must've been the "scientifically-pr…

Gefen Click to expand... Griffin? Click to expand... Nein. Gefen. Google it, and you may be much taken with some expensive but nifty gear. de

Gefen Click to expand... Griffin? with an 83MHz-rated Grackle and Rev. F ROM. So, it runs 416MHz on an 83MHz bus Click to expand... I wish I could find a beige wit…

Beige G3 DT and MT, both with Rev. C ROMs; 768MB of RAM; Sonnet G4/500MHz CPUs; AsantéFAST NICs; Rage Pro video cards; USB, FireWire or combo cards and 40-60GB of drive space in tw…

I wonder if anyone's tried mounting a G3 motherboard in an 8600/9600 case. Click to expand... I've considered it. I have a few spare beige motherboards and a dead 9500. The ot…

Slot A Pentium? /head explodes.

Mine: G3 MT 300 @ 500MHz now with a G4 768MB PC100 RAM 2 x 40GB Maxtor HD's Sonnett ATA/100 Card Rage Orion 32MB PCI Card Sonnett Tempo card w / firewire and USB LG 16x DVD,…

"The worst thing about the G3 towers is that Apple shortened the case (same layout as the 8600/9600) and removed those 2 bottom HD bays." I wonder if anyone's tried mounting a G3 …

You don't want to use swap file or virtual memory on flash cards on any operating system.

Virtual memory is, of course, on by default after an installation of OS8. On a hunch, I installed 8.5 again, booted with extensions off, opened the Memory Control Panel, turned vir…

Extensions Manager doesn't show all extensions or control panels. Try Symbionts if you can find it, or perhaps Conflict Catcher

I am trying to get 8.6 on it now, in the form of the "core" system only, so as not to waste time. I can repeat the experiment for a full install if it works. The way of doing this…

8.5 ... Any ideas? Click to expand... 8.6?

Agreed on keeping the original heatsink. However I did run into overheating issues on my Beige, so an additional fan could be useful. I got one of those small, about an inch tall o…

Drivers: It depends on the manufacturer. Apple OEM and most Sonnet ZIFs don't need drivers at all, they're totally plug-and-play. The only drivers one might need is the AltiVec cod…

the pentium Heatsink will be a bit hard, since the size of the heatsink is a bit awkward for the Zif Socket. I believe the original Heatsink will be fine. It was when I had my blu…

none. Unless it's a blue and white, and then you will need to download a firmware update: XLR8's G4 updater for the Blue and white

Mine was my main machine until recently. Paid $600 for it in about '99/2000, sold the internal ZIP for $100, and got a good six-seven years of use out of it. I'm still working on…

I have a beige g3 desktop too, but the tower is my favorite and has most of the upgrades. Finding a G3 with 1MB cache will speed those systems up. Built in video isn't too bad, th…

My desktop: Stock CD, HD USB dual-port card OS 8.6(going to upgrade to 9.2.2 shortly) 233 MHz 112 MB RAM Still love it though!

That is the Open Firmware boot selector.. It shows you the bootable volumes. Clicking the circular arrow refreshes the menu choices indeed, f.e. because you put a CD in the drive…

I have more than one. The MT sitting in my closet is a 333MHz model with the ATTO U160 SCSI card. I don't recall RAM, but it's at least 256MB. It has a Wings card, 10k RPM 9GB prim…

I don't think the Lisa ever had enough focus to connect it back to the II line. The Mac, though, got an IIe-on-a-card functionality added later. Click to expand... Specificall…

Upgrading machines is like an itch you have to scratch to me for some reason. B&W's, PCI Powermacs, and Beige G3s are just so cheap to get and upgrade these days and they …

Cool, you guys have some pretty nice machines. I've got several more desktops and another server tower, but nothing really built up. I probably won't build any more close to what…