On the other hand, what is it with beige motherboards dying? I replaced the one in mine twice over the years. Both times the symptoms were a non-booting OS X install, OS 9 bootin…

Thank, Frank. That should be easy to find. On the other hand, what is it with beige motherboards dying? I replaced the one in mine twice over the years. Both times the symptoms…

Oh, yeah...there seems to be a decent amount of interest in Apple prototype stuff but no "complete" database of information about these.

Where is in on the motherboard? Click to expand... If you're looking at the CPU ZIF socket, the Grackle is north a bit, between the ZIF and the drive connectors. In fact, the G…

Everyone I have asked says that they either don't have the original install CD or that it came with OS 9. All the copies of 8.6 floating around the net are March 1999 retail copie…

Holy crap, I found it here: http://www.theapplemuseum.com/index.php?id=45'>http://www.theapplemuseum.com/index.php?id=45 Click to expand... That page is interesting but…

Where is in on the motherboard?

Just making sure, is the MachSpeed Control a cache enabler?

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?

I am having some trouble installing a system on a CF card installed in a 2300c via an IDE-CF adapter (Chinese & utterly generic). The attempt thus far, which has now been …

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…